Coming soon from the people behind the Ottawa Dog Blog : a new “Ottawa Dog Park Finder”. Here’s a mock-up of the web site, which will use : ** [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/park-thing.jpg) ** Until this new site is online, if you’re looking for a dog park you can refer to this page from ResponsibleDogOwners. ...

We posted about Mayor Larry’s blog on May 17 when it was brand new. After three weeks of reading the blog, we’re underwhelmed. So far it’s mostly press releases, and the tone is impersonal – at least it doesn’t “sound” like something Larry would write. ...

Funny post today from Derek Puddicombe on the Ottaw Sun’s “Sun and The City” blog. An excerpt: ** ** Never in my almost dozen or so years of doing this job have I ever had a reaction to a word or phrase I've used in a story. ...

Does this look familiar? [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/notice-of-confidentiality.gif) Keelan at the Capital PR blog wonders what the point is of these email notice of confidentiality disclaimers : Is all this text really necessary in every email sent from every person in your organization? ...

[ Dail 6-1-3_ ](http://dial613.blogspot.com/) , a once-great but now-dormant music blog covering Ottawa’s band scene, is looking for some writers and a web designer to revive the site. That’s good news – when the site was active it was one of our favourite weekly reads. ...

On Dr. Yoni Freeedhoff’s Weighty Matters blog today about “Tickers”, the cafeteria at the Ottawa Heart Institute : ** ** Eat at Tickers too often and heaven help your tickers. While there may be a healthy option here or there, the bulk of the food served at Tickers is junk food. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/Watawa-life-C2-BB-Blog-Archive-.jpg) Robin Kelsey has some great photos of new graffitti on the “Tech Wall” – the park at the old Technical High School near Bronson & Slater. (Also: make sure you check out another pic by Robin called " Oh no! ...

Earlier this week, the City of Ottawa launched a new Application Development Search to “provide the community with convenient access to identify, investigate and make comments on applications within the development process.” Ottawa blogger Chris Taggart says the service is a big step forward, but offers these suggestions to the city to improve it: ...

Mayor Larry O’Brien has a new blog . Says Larry: Here you will find my story about growing up in a city that is as varied and as wonderful as the people who live here. Sometimes I get asked the question “Did you grow up in Ottawa? ...

Robin Kelsey has some more of his great photos and commentary today on the Watawa Life blog. This time it’s a post about what happens when the city paints over graffiti : Meanwhile the city continues to erase graffiti from under bridges and overpasses. ...