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Local media site nobody's heard of apologizes for plagiarizing blogger's work

By adamg - 3/10/10 - 4:36 pm

Laura reports a writer for Boston Examiner lifted, word for word, a recap she wrote of the season opener of the Boston Derby Dames roller-derby league (in which she skates under the name Mona Mour).

She posted it under her name and her photo ... with only a small, italicized attribution at the bottom. No link. No permission.

She updates to report the site did take down the article and apologized. Read more

The Lynn Daily Item must be doing pretty well to turn away a potential advertiser

By adamg - 2/25/10 - 6:39 pm

Corey Jackson reports the Lynn Daily Item basically told him they wouldn't take his money to advertise his blog because he's written some less than nice things about the paper:

... Instead of receiving an answer from the advertising department, I got a personal e-mail from the General Manager of the Daily Item of Lynn, Phil Ouelette. He asked me to call him and as I knew right away what I was in for, I called immediately. ...

Area start-up says it can predict the future

By adamg - 2/24/10 - 9:26 am

Erin introduces us to Recorded Future, which claims it can use a data from "blogs, news outlets, and social media sites" to tell customers what to expect in days to come.

Inauguration of jonasprang.blogspot.com

By Jonas Prang - 2/16/10 - 3:22 pm

I've started a blog on Fort Hill and Roxbury neighborhood issues: jonasprang.blogspot.com. The germ of the blog is the Settles Kerfuffle at 85 Centre Street, but I may branch out once that issue gets thrashed out.

Like many infant blogs, it's a little messy and not very attractive. Even so, I think I'll concentrate on the prose before tarting it up with pretty pictures.

Comedy is serious business

By adamg - 2/16/10 - 2:03 pm

Boston Comedy covers Boston's comedy scene (yeah, kind of obvious from the name, huh?), with news and interviews with local comedians.

Holding bloggers to higher ethical standards than reporters and editors?

By adamg - 2/12/10 - 9:05 am

Paul Levy asks the question, in response to Dan Kennedy taking him to task for not mentioning he backs Charlie Baker in a post criticizing the way Deval Patrick is trying to curb health-care costs.

Can you set up a non-profit in 12 weeks?

By adamg - 2/9/10 - 10:46 am

Two people who are trying just that are blogging the process (and keeping the nature and name of their organization on the hush-hush for now). Be sure to read the chicken-and-egg post about registering with the state.

Crying fowl: Possible ban on ducks in Cambridge ruffles feathers

By adamg - 2/9/10 - 12:28 am

The owners of three Cayuga ducks and two Wyandotte chickens are blogging to keep Cambridge from banning their pets. Read more

Building a new Boston blogs directory

By adamg - 2/2/10 - 2:34 pm

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. Read more

Coming soon: An online guide to hidden Boston

By adamg - 1/26/10 - 8:57 pm

MySecretBoston officially launches next week, but this online guide to "hidden" cool stuff in Boston already has an impressive number of finds online. It's an attractive site and has some attitude (and, personally, as a Drupal geek, I'm fond of their choice in content management systems). Read more

BPS blogger revealed

By adamg - 1/22/10 - 8:33 pm

The Globe interviews Kelly Young, whose Braving the BPS Lottery has been a great resource for parents in the West Zone (Roslindale, West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain) dealing with the issue of school choice for their pre-schoolers and impending kindergarteners.

AOL looks to get micro-mini-quark-sized-hyperlocal in Sudbury

By adamg - 1/21/10 - 11:45 am

Patch, which is AOL's latest effort to blow through millions of dollars hyperlocal play, is looking to bust out of its current Tri-State playpen and move into the Boston area, starting with Sudbury. They're looking to hire somebody to compile descriptions of businesses and organizations in Sudbury, which is almost as affluent as Wellesley or Concord, just a lot quieter. Says you can make $400-$1,000 a week for up to six months doing this. They think it's going to take six months to do profiles of every business on Rte. 20? Huh!

Remember when Channel 5 had editorials?

By adamg - 1/13/10 - 9:05 am

Then you probably remember Marjorie Arons-Barron (how could you forget a name like that?). She's blogging now. In addition to politics and media, she's writing about theater and movies.

Via Richard Howe.

Liveblogging the Haitian earthquake from Boston

By adamg - 1/12/10 - 7:41 pm

The Boston Haitian Reporter is collecting and posting information about the 7.0 earthquake today.

Ed. disclaimer: I do some work for the site's owners.

Green Mass. Group joins Blue, Red, Gold and Purple Mass. Groups

By adamg - 1/11/10 - 9:49 am

Local greenies have set up Green Mass. Group to chat about Jill Stein and environmental issues: Read more

Our blogging paramedic won't be serving in Iraq after all

By adamg - 1/8/10 - 12:26 pm

The Urban Paramedic reports Army doctors wouldn't let him go because he's on Plavix and they were worried that if he got shot, he'd bleed out. So instead he'll serve out his JAG duties somewhere safer, like right here in the US.

Blogging is dangerous

By adamg - 1/7/10 - 5:53 pm

Dave Alpert reports he was at his local coffeeshop with his laptop, trying to think what to post about today, when he was accosted by a very large man brandishing a knife:

... He started opening the blade as he approached me, but suddenly stopped a few feet away and said, “Wanna buy it?” Then, he approached two girls sitting at the next table as I got up to alert the manager. He left. Apparently, we weren’t the first because as the manager ran out the door to find the guy, he found the man surrounded by police near the corner of Huntington Ave. ...

The Urban Paramedic goes to Iraq

By adamg - 12/27/09 - 12:46 pm

The Boston paramedic turned Army Reserve lawyer is shipping out to Iraq and will be blogging law in a combat zone.

Blog as dictation: Paul Pierce is no Curt Schilling

By adamg - 12/18/09 - 3:54 pm

Does the fact that Paul Pierce's new boston.com blog is really "as told to" rather than something from his own hand detract from it in any way? At least the Globe is up front (well, bottom of blog) about the fact that reporter Julian Benbow is the one actually composing the sentences that appear on screen; it's not like they hired somebody like this.

Taking a Blogging Class at Grub Street

By david_yamada - 12/15/09 - 12:02 pm

Too often, blogging is characterized as a chance to sit down at the computer and yammer away to our heart's content, without much editing, planning, or, umm, thinking. And then we expect the world to somehow discover and embrace our pearls of wisdom. Read more

Social media the Commonwealth of Massachusetts way

By adamg - 12/11/09 - 5:54 pm

Social Media Guidance & Best Practices - Some of it's specific to state-government bloggers, but some of the advice (like the stuff on knowing your audience) is fun for the whole family.

Remembering Milt Raymond...

By the zak - 12/10/09 - 9:07 pm

Where's an obit for Milt Raymond?... What reminiscences have folks of Milt Raymond?...

Interesting: Is Huffington Post getting ready for assault on Boston market?

By adamg - 12/7/09 - 12:50 pm

Looks like Huffington Post, which already has local sites in Chicago, New York and Denver, might be getting closer to Boston - it's set up a Boston People Twitter list. But then again, if you look at the other lists they have, one is called Boise Sports.

Via Steve Garfield.

Red Mass Group response to Blue Mass Group "voting scandal"

By GarrettQuinn - 12/5/09 - 12:14 pm

Patrick at Red Mass Group points out that David and others at Blue Mass Group are grasping for straws with their argument that Scott Brown is violating elections law. He points out that Martha Coakley is doing the exact same thing, too.

Report: No more DailyCandy for Boston

By adamg - 12/4/09 - 12:29 am

Valleywag reports the daily shopping e-mail newsletter for women is shutting its Boston edition now that Comcast, which paid $125 million for the operation a year or so ago, realizes there's no way it can recoup its investment fully staffing the provincial towns outside New York and a few other large cities. Boston subscribers will instead get an "everywhere" edition with a couple of Boston tidbits thrown in now and again.

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