About BlogsCanada

BlogsCanada is a blogging resource site and directory of Canadian blogs. The site is 100% owned and operated by Jelve Design. Jelve Design is a 100% Canadian web development company owned by Jim Elve and Jesse Elve.

The purpose of BlogsCanada is to provide helpful information for bloggers and those interested in blogs and blogging.

BlogsCanada includes Officially Unofficial, Jim Elve's blog. Officially Unofficial covers topics related to blogging, in general, and BlogsCanada, in particular. Jim also uses his blog to spout off on other topics as he sees fit.

BlogsCanada also includes the E-Group blog. The E-Group is described as "Multi-partisan Political Punditry." Here, a diverse group of online political commentators discuss Canadian politics and world affairs from a Canadian perspective.

The Look

The Old Look:

When we first launched BlogsCanada, we mimicked the look of a Government of Canada website. The idea was to amuse as well as to generate some buzz and some traffic. The Treasury Board of Canada sent us a cease and desist letter. This played into our strategy of attracting attention to the new site. When we publicized the fact that the Goverrnment of Canada was cracking down on BlogsCanada, we received an overwhelming amount of support from bloggers in Canada and elsewhere.

The saga of BlogsCanada vs. The Government of Canada is chronicled in Officially Unofficial.

• Government of Canada versus BlogsCanada
• Spreading the Linky Love
• Look who's linking
• Common Look and Feel, Common Values and Canadian Identity
• So then I said...

After writing to the Treasury Board lawyers on April 3, 2004, we never heard another peep about their concerns with the BlogsCanada website.

They gave up. We won.

So, why did we change the look? It was time to do so. Every website needs a facelift from time to time and the GoC look was getting old.