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Cambridge journalist to local businesses: No more Mr. Nice Guy
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 7:10 amMark Levy at Cambridge Day puts Cambridge businesses on record: If you put a giant "Going Out of Business" sale in your window, he's going to write about it, even if you ask him not to. He's tired of getting scooped on stories he knew about first.
Blogger puts his money where his mouth is
By adamg - 5/9/12 - 8:26 amOn Limeduck, David reports he's a co-founder of a concern called Sprout Lenders, an investment club hoping to support local farms and locavore food concerns in the Boston area:
If you believe in any of the ideas of Slow Money and Slow Food, how can you advance those agendas in your community? Buying local and eating local are great starts, but individual action only goes as far as your own spending. Activism, advocacy and lobbying are other paths. In the organizing discussions at Sprout Lenders, we wanted to take our experience in business and orientation as capitalists in a kinder and localer direction.
Equity investing might be the "slower" path, being more involved in the running of the business and having a long time horizon. Lending, however, is somewhat lower risk for us as beginning investors, and it fits the seasonal and cyclical needs that a lot of food businesses have for working capital. If we're successful, the loan fund will grow with interest on repayment, and we can help several businesses a year become a little more successful themselves.
Skillshare: Art of the Schmooze - May 14th!
By Socializing4Justice - 5/5/12 - 8:34 pmDo you often get stuck in conversations? Not know how to approach people at networking events? Join Socializing for Justice for a fast-paced, fun & interactive Skillshare on the Art of the Schmooze on May 14, 6:00 - 8:30 PM at the NonProfit Center*, 89 South St, Boston.
Register at http://www.sojust.org - Newcomers always welcomed!
SoJust hosts events that draw progressives of all stripes that share common values but may work on different issues. We create social spaces that allow for the possibility of cross-issue connections and run a Skillshare Series, hosted by The NonProfit Center, which builds our individual capacity to make a difference in the world.
SCHEDULE
6:00-6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner
6:30-8:30 Training
8:00-8:30 Q & A and more socializing
Event fee: $10-$20 cash at the door.
SoJust's Co-Founder, Robbie Samuels, who is well known for his schmoozing skills, is this month's facilitator.
Art of the Schmooze
Hospital computer can't stop calling local blogger; must be love
By adamg - 4/22/12 - 12:19 pmDeb Geisler reports some computer at Brigham and Women's Hospital keeps making appointments for her in departments that have no record of her - and then calling her to inform her about them.
Burger bar in beef with blogger
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 3:30 pmSo Richard Chudy, the Boston Burger Guy, raved about the burger at the Citizen Pub on Boylston Street, finding fault only with the bun.
An outraged David A. DuBois, CEO of the Franklin Group, which owns both the pub and Tasty Burger, replied by calling Chudy an asshole and saying he'd like to meet him in person to drive the point home even more.
Eating his way through the food trucks of Boston
By adamg - 4/6/12 - 9:02 amArmed with an April food-truck schedule, David at Limeduck is attempting to sample the offerings from each truck. He starts with a visit to the venerable Savory Food Truck 1, which was dishing up Chinese food at MIT probably long before anybody at Clover was even born:
Yep, that's the stuff. Fried rice, a layer of bulk-adding cost-cutting cabbage, no more than three chunks of not-overcooked broccoli, and tons of would-be-crispy-if-n0t-drenched-in-gloopy-sauce white meat chicken. Bad for the earth styrofoam box, flimsy plastic fork. Piquant without really being spicy, served hot and fast, and filling filling filling. There's nothing Michelin-rated here except maybe the tires on the truck, but it's still a national treasure to me.
Tech bloggers, free beer get Faneuil Hall bar in hot water
By adamg - 4/3/12 - 10:48 amA party by tech-blog site BostInno that featured free cans of Naragansett beer landed Ned Devine's before the Boston Licensing Board today.
The blog's the thing
By adamg - 3/25/12 - 9:38 pmThe Turnstile Theater Company's Blogoliloquy, at the Boston Center for the Arts next week, is a play that focuses on "life and people in Boston" as told through the posts on six actual local blogs.
Food blogger says he wasn't aware Boston Globe now printed in a glass house
By adamg - 3/15/12 - 9:12 amThe Passionate Foodie fires back at the Globe for a piece that raised ethical questions about bloggers who accept free meals from local restaurants, by charging the author has herself accepted free stuff:
The Boston Globe correspondent who penned the Boston Bruncher article is named Kathleen Pierce and I have met her. In fact, I met her back in March 2010 when we both attended a free wine junket to Paso Robles, California. Free airfare, free hotel, free meals, free wine tastings, and more. As a reasonable estimate, each writer probably received benefits worth at least $2000. This really puzzles me. How can the writer who received such a bountiful freebie now complain about a blogger receiving only a $30 brunch? Even if a blogger went to 10 of those brunches, the value of those meals still would not equate to the value of the wine junket.
UPDATE: Doug Most at the Globe sent this statement:
Kathleen Pierce did take the wine trip in question. It was more than two years ago. We were unaware of it, because at the time she was not a regular freelancer for The Globe. She was working part-time in a wine store and had only done a several freelance pieces. She did not write about the trip for The Globe, which would have been in direct violation of the Globe's ethics policy. I spoke with her and reminded her of the Globe’s freelance policy and the importance of adhering to the standards we apply to all our writers, which is that they must avoid any junkets or trips or free meals that put them in conflict, or the appearance of conflict, with anything they have written about or may write about in the future.
Fishing for news at the convention center
By adamg - 3/12/12 - 8:21 amThe Passionate Foodie displays some repertorial herring-do as he roams the floor at the annual International Boston Seafood Show.
