Beyond Robson Launches
Last month, I mentioned Beyond Robson, a nascent site about Vancouver. It’s now officiallly launched, and here’s the spiel:
Beyond Robson is a web site about Vancouver culture. We cover music, film, the arts, fashion, food, tech, sports, people, politics and places. This is a blog. We invite you to post comments, disagree with us, flatter us and otherwise tell us what you think.
I checked out a few entries, and the tone is a bit hipper-than-thou. All the bloggers feel like the The Cool Kids on Main Street. Neither Beyond Robson nor Urban Vancouver have achieved the diversity of voices which should typify a city-wide site like this.
I traded emails with the site’s publisher, Tim Shore. I was a little suspicious because the site was registered in Toronto, where Tim lives. As a Vancouverite, I’m naturally suspicous of everything east of the Rockies. He does own the site (he was also involved in Navigate the Streets and has a Toronto blog site), but has west coast people running it.
