Mathew Ingram leaving the Globe and Mail to blog

Mathew Ingram, whose job as communities editor at the Globe and Mail consisted of ushering the one-hundred-and-sixty-six-year-old newspaper into the age of social media, announced on Twitter this afternoon that he would be resigning his post to pursue a new job with GigaOM, a technology news blog, thereby casting in his lot with the new media world he has spent years advocating (and reporting on, before he became an editor) for his old employer. Ingram began working for the Globe in 1994, and assumed his current role in late 2008.