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The impact blogs can have on a news story became rather apparent in late January of 2006. Adam Krawesky, a Spacing<\/em> contributor and one of Toronto’s most prolific photobloggers<\/a>, was wandering through Kensington Market when he witnessed an altercation between a driver and a cyclist. He took a series of photos that would soon launch a local (and slightly global) blog phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The story went something like this:
\n1. driver throws beef patty out of vehicle window
\n2. Cyclist throws it back into car
\n3. Driver gets out and yells at cyclist, dumps coffee on her
\n4. Man drives away, but decides to return
\n5. Upon return to scene, initiates fight with cyclist
\n6. Scuffle ensues [ photos begin at this point ]
\n7. People break it up, cops called
\n8. Incident goes crazy on blogs<\/p>\n

Here at Spacing<\/em> we caught wind of the incident early<\/a>. The photos were originally posted on the blog City Noise<\/a>, but that was soon shut down due to the large bandwidth demand [ read the comments section for a variety of opinions on who was the guilty party ]. Spacing<\/em> became the next home for the story and we saw our web traffic increase to over 30,000 visitors a day for the next week. Read our post<\/a> which has a detailed account from the cyclist involved in the altercation.<\/p>\n

At the time, I referred to the photos as something akin to witnessing a great white shark and killer whale in a battle: we know it happens but we rarely, if ever, see it on film. The event sparked a larger discussion on how often cyclists and motorists come into conflict [ very often, it seems ]. Each side of the debate was thoroughly hashed out with a hundred different variations on who was the victim and\/or guilty party. Also complicating the debate was the gender of the participants.<\/p>\n

About four days after the event, Krawesky’s images appeared on the cover of the Toronto Star <\/em>even though he refused to give the newspaper permission [ he had previously agreed to sell the pics to the Globe and Mail and give the cash to the cyclist, a single mother who works as a bike courier ]. Sadly, he has yet to be paid for the images as the Star<\/em> claims the photos had become part of the larger public domain. The Star<\/em> has offered a small settlement but Krawesky is still challenging the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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