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The Globe today has a business-section story about some panel discussion on how Masters of the Universe should respond when bloggers catch them in a lie or point out major failings in their products - which the Globe seems to think is a new phenomenon in this Age of Recession, as opposed to something that's been going on for awhile now. In any case, one of the people on the panel was John Carroll, a BU media professor who, you may recall, got beat up by bloggers for mistaking a satirical post as fact, and who is still touchy about the subject:

... "One of the people who was sandblasting me for an entire week on his local political blog actually eight months later tried to friend me on Facebook."

More at Blue Mass. Group, or, as Carroll refers to them, "these people."

Tinker Ready, a longtime health reporter, has just started Boston Health News to cover health issues in the Boston area.

Via Dan Kennedy.

Margalit reports NPR is sending a crew over to her kitchen tonight to watch her make a big pot of chicken soup and some biscuits for dinner:

... They're doing a story about people who have changed their shopping and cooking habits since the recession really took hold. That would be me. I'm so much more careful about what I buy, and we hardly have any packaged foods at all in the house anymore. We've been using up what we can from our pantry, but looking forward I can't see us buying too much in the way of anything packaged besides cereal. Because my son lives on cereal as a snack, and the food pantry we use tends to bring us 4 boxes a month. ...

Even if the lyrics make no sense to you (trackbacks? SEO? What is this?), you can still enjoy this video about unrequited link love on the Red Line:

Earlier:
If PR doesn't work out, she can always do Alanis Morissette covers.

Chris Monks reports you could see part of his lawn on a Channel 5 story last night about the warm weather - they filmed a neighbor and his son playing in front of his house:

... This neighbor lives around the block, not even on my street, yet for some reason they chose to film him and his son playing street hockey right in front of my house. Why? Well, I think it's kind of obvious: Because I'm one of the most famous fair-to-middling bloggers in all of Eastern Massachusetts. They could have filmed the thing in front of anybody's house, like for instance, my neighbor's house around the block. But they didn't. Instead, they saw my house and probably said to themselves, "Isn't that the house where that blogger with glorious toes who writes fair-to-middling fan letters to Star Jones lives? Awesome. Let's film there." ...

Fans of TS the paramedic's accounts of life on the streets of Boston rejoice: He's back from military service in Germany and blogging again.

Just saw one of the most substantial exchanges I've ever seen on Twitter:

rdsahl Gov Patrick: WashPost blog floats your name for HHS. Are you in the mix? Would you take if offered. Thanks.

(and, about an hour later...)

MassGovernor @rdsahl As the Governor has said countless times, he is staying put and running for re-election. - Kyle Sullivan, Press Secretary [approx. 2 pm]

I'm struck by this in several ways: Read more

Save My Spot in Southie.

I love this passive-aggressive note (hey, at least the aggrieved person left a note rather than hauling out a tire iron or something).

This is just the sort of thing people in Dorchester complain about.

UPDATE: The reposted list has been deleted.

Apparently unable to come up with his own list of films made in Massachusetts, word thief Jeff Kincannon, who claims to be an actor, simply stole the list Sam Baltrusis posted on Loaded Gun and reposted it as his own. Except he didn't even bother to clean up the opening paragraph, which begins "In the comments section of a previous posting on the made-in-Boston flick 'The Pink Panther 2, Loaded Gun reader Boston Knucklehead asks ..."

But it gets worse. Richard Murphy, who claims to be an expert on the Boston film industry over at the secret Examiner site (which has been signing up local bloggers at a rapid clip), pointed to the stolen list and gives props to the thief instead of to Sam.

Disclaimer: Sam is a member of the blog network I run, but still, this sucks.

Surviving Grady interviews NESN's on-field reporter, who, among other things, vows not to break their hearts and leave Boston like Hazel Mae and Tina Cervasio.

Boston Food Bloggers.

Is Boston big enough for two newsletters aimed at the Axe Generation?

Thrillist Boston, which already tells young men What to Buy, is about to get competition from UrbanDaddy, which is advertising for a local dude-oriented writer to write up "what's new, hot, exciting and essential."

Jeff Hayes paints a still life and blogs as he goes.

CC Chapman tweets he'll be on CNN sometime between 6 and 7 p.m., possibly around 6:10 p.m., to talk about new media and the inauguration.

Amy Derjue, late of Boston Magazine, is now City Councilor Mike Ross's communications director, Boston Magazine reports.

Hmm, if Ross runs for mayor against John Tobin (hey, it could happen), we'd have blog wars: She'd be competing with blogger Steve Garfield, who put together Tobin's campaign site.

The Washington Post today profiles Ryan Barrett on what Obama's victory means to her as the daughter of black and white parents.

The Globe today highlights little Ellie Brogan, whose birth defect might have consigned her to a liver transplant without a new treatment at Children's Hospital - IV doses of fish oil. You can follow her progress on her parents' Short Gut News blog.

Jeremy Jacobs is leaving PolitickerMA for a job on The Hill down in DC.

Jim Conley explains why he's pulling the plug on his On Brookline site on Feb. 15: Basically, the bastards have won.