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By adamg - 12/9/05 - 10:28 pm
With Bill Griffith gone from the Globe, Bruce tries his hand at telling you what sports are on when and where this weekend.
By adamg - 12/7/05 - 8:39 am
Betsy is up in New Hampshire this week covering the trial of that GOP operative charged with jamming a Democratic phone bank on election day.
By adamg - 12/6/05 - 10:19 pm
TopTenSources aims to be the thinking person's blog and news directory. What makes the site different, according to founder John Palfrey, is that in each category, an expert will pick the ten best blogs - whose posts will then be aggregated on the same page (yes, Palfrey is also executive director of Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet and Society).
By catdoggg - 12/6/05 - 5:23 pm
First of all, some of you know that today was the big day for our second ultrasound. If you read my past posting you'll understand what I am went through up until 8:30am. If not, today is the day that I can find out the gender of Babydog. Before I get there though.....
By adamg - 12/6/05 - 9:36 am
Kudos to Globe ombudsman Richard Chacon for wading into the blogging pool (now let's get video blogging Globe reporter Emily Sweeney to interview him!).
Fie on whoever fed Chacon this:
By adamg - 11/30/05 - 10:04 am
Mark reports that Cambridge Day, the daily paper started on Oct. 31 by former Herald staffer (and Misanthropicity blogger) Marc Levy, has folded.
By adamg - 11/28/05 - 11:24 pm
Tony reports he's working on an Instant Messenger T failure bot that would let you find out when there are problems on the T by sending an IM to a specific screen name.
By adamg - 11/19/05 - 8:56 am
BlogLeft Massachusetts on Dec. 10 will be:
A forum and gathering for Massachusetts progressive bloggers, readers and other quirky liberal people.
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tatnuck Bookseller in Worcester. $25 registration, but lunch and Wi-Fi included.
By adamg - 11/18/05 - 7:53 am
Robert forwards the news that the Federal Election Commission has decided that Weblogs qualify for a press exception under federal campaign-finance laws - "unless the facility is owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate."
In other words, you can now express your opinions about politicians and the wacky things they do without worrying about getting a fine from the federales.
By adamg - 11/17/05 - 11:21 pm
Cabinboy is blogging his participation in the Brattle Theatre Movie Watch-A-Thon, a 23-day effort to raise money to keep the Brattle open.
By adamg - 11/15/05 - 10:07 pm
Ari Ben Harav's Boston Realty News is heavy on news of new high-end condo projects.
Compare to:
Boston Real Estate Blog
Boston Real Estate Watch
By adamg - 11/9/05 - 5:15 pm
Lynn Lofts, the Skinny is a new blog aimed at people thinking about moving into a condo in the neighborhood - specifically, the Keith Building, where the author lives. He does not much care for the building's developer - and explains why you should be careful about moving into a unit too close to the commuter-rail tracks.
By adamg - 11/9/05 - 10:41 am
Mass High Tech interviews Jay Brewer, whose Blogpire blogging network started last year with a single blog on single-serve coffee machines:
... Brewer said Blogpire has chalked up less than $500,000 in revenue this year, but he said the company is profitable and supports seven writers, ranging in age from their 20s to 30s. The writers share half of the revenue of the individual blogs that they write with Brewer. They collectively receive fewer than a half million page views a month. ...
By adamg - 11/8/05 - 3:52 pm
Red Line Diary is a new blog by, well, a Red Line commuter. Today, T Rider was feeling pretty good waiting for the train at Alewife:
... Then came the "medical emergency" ahead, the muttered "shit" from another passenger, and delay. Once we began to move again the dreadful "Please be advised there are plenty of trains right behind us" came over the loudspeaker. It's probably true but it sounds like a lie related to "I'll still respect you in the morning."
By adamg - 11/7/05 - 11:33 pm
MBTA Under bills itself as:
Wicked smart ("wikid smaht") tricks for the T rider - clear, concise and jargon-free!
To date, it's concentrated on shuttle bus service during planned subway shutdowns.
Earlier:
Does anybody like the T?
By adamg - 11/4/05 - 8:06 pm
Tim has set up BoycottSony.us to track news related to the way some Sony music CDs put software on Windows PCs that can destroy Windows if you try to un-install it:
...As of this moment, I'm boycotting all Sony products - music, movies, video games, electronics. And I call on others to do the same. It's simple. If you treat me with disrespect, I stop doing business with you; if you treat me as a criminal, I call you on it; if you ship a product that disables my computer, it's war. ...
By adamg - 11/4/05 - 7:56 am
The Herald profiles bloggers who complain about the T (hmm, where have we read about that before?) and has a nice quote from T General Manager Dan Grabauskas:
If you simply wish to vent or rant, use a blog. But if you have service delivery issues that may require corrective action, then you should contact the MBTA through our immensely popular Write to the Top program.
By adamg - 11/2/05 - 3:52 pm
Well, OK, Nina does, but otherwise, it seems like T-venom sites are sprouting faster than the Green Line makes it down Comm Ave. [snare].
Life on the Green Line is dedicated to:
A cynical examination of all the faults and foibles of Boston's very own method of public transportation: the T.
Other sites about T suckitude include:
- T-rage
- Transport Avenger (whose author reserves particular bile for the Silver Line)
- Bad Transit - the original site dedicated to exposing just how bad T time can be.
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