From the Top of the Pile is a weekly newpspaper column written by Brian Zinchuk. This blog will carry that column, as well as do all the other things blogs do.
Since 1992, 17 years this past March, I have been writing a weekly newspaper column. From the Top of the Pile has been around before Twitter, Facebook, blogs, personal webpages, Napster,eBay, MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, or even Mosaic – if you can remember back that far. It was a blog before there even was blogs, with a weekly readership in the thousands. Hopefully it will reach that online, eventually.
The column has picked up three columnist of the year awards from the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association – 2005, 2006 and 2008. Please forgive the big head. It makes it hard to walk through doors.
As for the name, “From the Top of the Pile,” it has nothing to do with the aforementioned big head. If you ever saw my desk, you would know what I’m talking about.
While there will likely be other postings to this blog, it’s primary purpose is for the weekly online posting of my column, written on Mondays.
The column focuses on pretty much anything that crosses my minde before deadline – politics, crime, child raising, business, and everything in between. As I’m now the editor of Pipeline News, expect to see some columns focusing on the oilpatch on a regular basis.
I love getting response to my column, so please, feel free to comment away. I’m always digging for column fodder, so if there’s something that ticks you off, feel free to let me know.
I’ve listened to too many podcasts of This Week in Photography and have been brainwashed in the ways of web 2.0.
This blog is part of my full-court press to jump on the web 2.0 bandwagon. I’ve just launched my business website – www.zinchuk.ca – with the purpose of promoting my photography and writing. Since it was time to get that promotional tool in gear, I added a twitter feed – www.twitter.com/brianzinchuk, this blog, and will be adding online photo orders via wwwpictage.com. While I’m on Facebook, that’s not part of this. I want to keep something to myself.
So enjoy! Hope to see you each week.
Brian Zinchuk
