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Building a new Boston blogs directory

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 1:34pm

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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Lawyer arrested for videoing arrest on Tremont Street files civil-rights suit against Boston

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:57am

Simon Glik, who wound up arrested when he used his cell phone to video a drug bust on Tremont Street along the Common in 2007, yesterday filed suit in US District Court, alleging his First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by police.

Glik was also charged with "aiding escape" of a prisoner and disturbing the peace. All the charges against Glik were dismissed in court - including the charge of violating the wiretapping law, which he says was meant to cover secret taping of private conversations, not public recording of events out in the open, such as an arrest on the Common near Tremont Street.

Complete complaint.


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Oh, no, where are exhausted South Shore Plaza visitors going to sleep now?

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 10:15am

The Sheraton, the South Shore's only crenellated hotel, has closed, the Boston Business Journal reports.


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Pickup plows into Mattapan church

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:59am

Channel 7 reports on a late-night crash in which the truck went up the front steps of St. Paul's Victory Christian Assembly of God, 870 Cummins Highway.


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MIT may have the answer to declining newspaper circulation

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:36am

The Tech, the student paper at MIT, is currently giving away sex toys (DO NOT CLICK if you are at work, unless you work at an adult bookstore).


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Sometimes you just have to punch one of those dudes doing calisthenics on the trolley

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:19am

That Kind of Girl explains why.


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Just one teeny-tiny, eensy-weensy little problem with New Balance's megaproposal for Brighton

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:13am

They don't own the land, but are hoping to mobilize the public to pressure the owner to sell, the Herald reports.

Project map.

Blogger breaks the news on the project.


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The Herald follows the money

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:06am

Tallies up how much casino operators bet on Massachusetts in 2009. Let's put it this way: If you spent that much on casinos, you'd be heading for your daily Gamblers Anonymous meeting right now.


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So how come hardly any Democrats are running to replace Treasurer Tim?

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 9:04am

Steve Poftak wonders: Is Steve Grossman that intimidating? On the Democratic side so far it's Democratic moneyman Grossman and, maybe, Steve Murphy, who seems unable to leave the confines of the Boston City Council. In contrast, the Republicans have three candidates for one of those jobs that makes you wonder why it's still elected.


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Boston burgermeister declared

By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 8:03am

William McAdoo reports from the Boston Burger Bash - with photos, videos and, of course, the name of the winning chef.


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