Mr. Lacroix, I'm ready for my closeup ...

My posts have been very "self-referential" lately - I apologise for that. Hopefully this will be the last one and then we'll be back to marketing, social media and other fun stuff! But first ...

For the Canadians in the crowd who are looking for some good TV on Sunday, January 20th, tune in to ye olde CBC. Test the Nation is back! And this time with a vengeance .. uh, I mean bloggers. Test the Nation is a national quiz show where six teams compete to see who's the smartest. Well, this time, we're competing to see who "knows the most about the world". The six teams competing are: chefs, cab drivers, flight crews, backpackers, celebrity look a-likes and bloggers. And I am on the blogger team! W00t!

I'll be joined by a few folks that I know: David Jones, PR luminary over at prworks.ca and Rannie Turnigan, photojunkie extraordinaire. Looking forward to meeting the full team! Right now, the poll on the CBC is putting bloggers in the lead to win - but I kinda think online polls would naturally be skewed toward bloggers, so, we'll see how accurate it is.

I do love the CBC because their copywriting and their photography is so perfectly wry and cheesy. This is the pic of the bloggers (it's like they are pondering the Next Big Idea):

The caption reads: These cyber scribes rule the blogosphere but without a laptop to lean on, will they crash and burn? The answer is, of course, yes. But I'm confident we'll have a good time anyway :) (Trivia note - my first company was called CyberScribe. Yeah, I'm a little embarrassed.)

Here is the list of (most of) bloggers; I think they are missing a couple. Wish us luck!

Update: I added the updated blogger list from over at the Test the Nation site. Excited that Lex has joined the team as well (though sad about Maffin dropping out). And Eden is going to be one of the back-up team members - in case weather, flu or any other ailments cause additional dropouts. Should be a good time!

And remember, you can play along at home! Play Test The Nation: Trivia on Sunday January 20th, 2008 @ 8:00 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) on CBC Television and find out how well you know your world.