Counting the BlackBerrys

Anyone who's followed my career knows I've spent a lot of time writing and talking about BlackBerry. The Canadian smartphone maker, formerly known as Research In Motion (RIM), had a bad day on Monday as a deal to buy the company out fell apart and its CEO, Thorsten Heins, headed for the exits. It's actually had a lot of bad days lately, and it's kept me spinning out the stories and insight on a fairly consistent basis.

For the record, I don't just cover this one company, but you'd be forgiven if you thought I was the BlackBerry guy. I can easily understand why.

Thought I'd run down some of my notable media activity over the past couple of days, as in between writing to deadline - the stuff that pays the bills around here* - it's been a pretty hectic time. And a fun one.

• CBC Radio Kitchener-Waterloo - Spoke with host Craig Norris about the day ahead, and the news broke as we were wrapping the interview up. Coolest media moment I've had in a while.
• CTV News Channel - Spoke with anchor Todd van der Heyden.
• CTV National News - included in a report by John Vennavally-Rao. (Video here.)
• CTV London - quoted on reporter Talia Ricci's report. Video here.
• CBC Ontario Morning - Spoke live with host Wei Chen.
• CBC Television - spoke with Havard Gould for a report he filed with stations across the country.
• Global National - spoke with Kieron O'Dea
• News Talk 770 Calgary - Spoke with Angela Kokott for our weekly Tech Tuesday segment
• News 91.9 Moncton - Spoke with Tyler McLean of McLean in the Morning
• CJOB Winnipeg - Chatted with Charles Adler. Audio here.
• 570News Kitchener/Waterloo - Spoke with host Gary Doyle.
• Business News Network (BNN) - Joined a live panel with Rob McWhirter and hosts Pamela Ritchie and Paul Bagnell. Video here.
• CHED Edmonton - did an in-depth interview with Andrew Grose and Dan Tencer of the Tencer and Grose show. Showpage here.
• The Waterloo Region Record - was quoted in Terry Pender's piece, here.
• Canadian Press - spoke to reporter Romina Maurino a piece she wrote with David Friend. As CP is a wire service, it ended up in some interesting places, like CTV, the Huffington Post and the Ottawa Citizen, and the Globe and Mail's Michael Babad pulled a quote here, as well.

* Here are the pieces I wrote for Yahoo! Canada Finance:

• Fairfax walks away, Heins out as CEO
• Meet John Chen, the new CEO tapped to save BlackBerry

More fun coming up, as Twitter goes public tomorrow and my inbox is already filling up. First up, an early interview (6:00 a.m. ET) with CTV's Canada AM. Gotta love this life thing.