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Building a new Boston blogs directory

The thing that got me where I am today are blogs. Five years ago last month I started the current incarnation of Universal Hub (yes, of course, I completely forgot the anniversary; no, I am not this bad with birthdays and wedding anniversaries). This month, I'm starting up a revamped (hopefully better) Boston blog directory. It still needs some work (non-Bostonians will notice the lack of pages for their towns; don't worry, the info is all there, I will fix that), but with that caveat, let me know what you think.

One of the things I did in moving the data from the old system to the new was to try to weed out dead and inactive blogs, something I hadn't done for a couple of years. The churn was surprising - I think I had to prune 200 listings (out of 1,000 or so). Removing some of them was kind of sad - I got into this initially because there are so many cool bloggers in the Boston area, and some of the deletions were of blogs I'd read regularly back in the day. Alas, that's life (need a cliche? I'm running a special on them today) and the Boston area is still blessed with cool bloggers.

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You're a saint. Dead link pruning alone is a task, but keeping an up-to-date directory is hard for you and very useful for us. I used to run the national directory of construction equipment and I grok the task. Many thanks.

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And as long as a certain wordy blogger from Watertown is still in there, I'm cool with it.

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Adam - a friend of mine just launched her blog (she writes professionally - mostly PR/Communications I think). Thought you might want to add her to the Back Bay links - no fancy name - simply -http://manyachylinski.com/blog/. Looks like her early stuff from last month covered some time traveling - but I would guess she'll have some Bostonian themes in the future.

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Thank you for the hard work! I only found your blog in November but it has quickly moved the ranks amongst the blogs I read. And knowing you bust your ass everyday is something I am completely envious of! Please keep up the good work, it is appreciated.

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Is there a good reason why Surviving Grady is not listed?

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