Toronto Mike

Bike Lanes

Bike lanes. I dig them (obviously), but more so for my kids. I like knowing they have safe protected cycling infrastructure, considering I've raised all four to be Toronto cyclists! But for me personally? Whatevs... I biked this city in the 90s. I'll take a lane or whatever, but I'll
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13 Who Said No

Toronto Mike'd has well over a million downloads in 2024, and I'll likely drop episode 1600 by the end of the year. Over the past 13 years I've invited many people to visit my basement for a one-on-one chat, and most have said yes. I appreciate everyone who carves out
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Changing Habits

I work from home. I've been working from home since 2011. Part of my daily ritual is checking the mail. Mostly it's just bills and such, but I still have two clients who pay by snail mail, mailing me a cheque each month. Until recently I had three such clients,
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Bluesky!

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I started looking for another place to happen. I continued to tweet, even when the app was re-branded X, but I tried several other social media apps looking for my plan B. I tried Threads and didn't like it at all. I tried Mastodon and
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Chuck Woolery, Dead at 83

Chuck Woolery was the original host of the original daytime Wheel of Fortune, the original incarnation of Love Connection, Scrabble, and during a brief revival, Greed and Lingo. For my generation, he was Mr. Love Connection, and he'd be back in two minutes, two second.
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Open Mike

Welcome to this week's Open Mike. I'm Mike and I'll be your master of ceremonies for the day. Feel free to use this space to vent, rant,  share a story and/or ask a question of the FOTM hivemind.
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Let's Talk Audio

Podcasts, podcasts, podcasts... I record them, I produce them, I promote them... there's a whole lotta podcasting going on in my little digital services company. All podcasts require audio, but not all audio needs to be a podcast. Sometimes it's about capturing a story, something that interests me greatly. Allow
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