Blog news
Blue and Red masses to go dark tomorrow to protest potential Internet censoring laws
By adamg - 1/17/12 - 10:04 pmBlue Mass Group and Red Mass Group are joining the online protest against two bills in Congress that would privatize parts of due process and force Web sites to become proxies for music and movie companies in their mad dash to go after copyright infringement.
Fish heads, fish heads, write 'em up, yum
By adamg - 1/11/12 - 8:06 amRichard Auffrey reports that a company called iPura is once again offering a $1,000 prize to the local blogger/tweeter who best captures the raging glory that is the awesome world of seafood products and services at the annual International Boston Seafood Show in March.
The blogger vs. the publisher
By adamg - 1/7/12 - 12:01 pmMike the Mad Biologist notes the annoying irony of giant publisher Reed Elsevier posting an extract of something he wrote and then slapping a copyright notice on it - an explanation of why he thinks Reed Elsevier sucks.
JP monk discusses the ultimate punk rocker: Jesus Christ
By adamg - 1/6/12 - 8:14 amThe Jamaica Plain Gazette reports:
Sammons, who often traverses the neighborhood dressed in his brown cloth habit tied with a cord, writes about the religious life in a blog called “A Minor Friar” (friarminor.blogspot.com). His posts range from scholarly commentary on Catholic theology to the perils of walking across the Arborway.
Mixed in are plentiful references to the likes of horror-punkers the Misfits and diabolical thrashers Slayer. The music may seem surprising—and certainly is to some of Sammons' peers. But the metal and punk subcultures brought Sammons a key realization: "the given thing, the given taste, is not what you really want."
Organizing against MBTA service cuts
By adamg - 1/4/12 - 8:28 pmStudents Against T Cuts is just what it sounds like: Area college students working to fight proposed cuts at the T. Repeal forward funding, they argue.
Newton gets a new Web site
By adamg - 12/28/11 - 6:56 amVillage 14 is a collaboration between longtime local blogger Sean Roche and Greg Reibman, who is also a longtime blogger and who was, until recently, publisher of the regional chain that owns the Newton Tab. Reibman, however, writes the site is not a strike back at GateHouse. The duo aren't looking for ads, to start. It's just a couple of Newtonites who are really interested in the place and who love to blog, he says.
H/t Ian Lamont.
When a doctor's wife is diagnosed with breast cancer
By adamg - 12/22/11 - 10:13 amDr. John Halamka at Beth Israel reports on his wife's diagnosis and plans - with her consent - to blog about her treatment:
Last Thursday, my wife Kathy was diagnosed with poorly differentiated breast cancer. She is not facing this alone. We're approaching this as a team, as if together we have cancer. She has been my best friend for 30 years. I will do whatever it takes to ensure we have another 30 years together.
She's has agreed that I can chronicle the process, the diagnostic tests, the therapeutic decisions, the life events, and the emotions we experience with the hope it will help other patients and families on their cancer treatment journey.
Area blogger makes Times front page
By adamg - 12/18/11 - 10:20 amJoey Ciaramitaro of Good Morning Glouester makes America's front page with some choice quotes about towns with lobster-pot trees that can only hope to grow up to be like the stirring and stunningly beautiful one in Gloucester.
MBTA Missed Connections
By adamg - 12/16/11 - 4:32 pmNo, it's not when you miss the last train to Haverhill because the Orange Line was delayed. It's people realizing too late they're looking for love on the T. We eagerly await MBTA Forum, with letters that begin, "Dear MBTA Forum, I never thought I'd be writing something like this, but ..."
Boston food bloggers meet to eat, blog
By adamg - 12/14/11 - 6:12 pmBoston Food Swap recounts a marathon holiday weekend of greeting, meeting and eating.
