NECN.com went live today; the network broke away from boston.com to start its own online news efforts.

Via Boston TV News.

The president of NECN harrumphs that bloggers aren't journalists as if that's a bad thing.

Blue Mass. Groupistas ejected from studio moments before Fifth District congressional debate at the request of the Ogonowski campaign. They're Demmies, he's a GOPer.

Adam Reilly: My quick take is that this makes Ogonowski look bad and NECN look worse:

But maybe there were extenuating circumstances I'm not aware of. ...

Well, OK, technically, it's his NECN program, not the male half of the former Anchorcouple, at least, not yet, but still, hey, WordPress and all.

Via Blue Mass. Group, which notes that Curtis does seem to get the series of tubes - he participated in a discussion with those bloggers a few months ago.

NECN has set up a blog for folks who might have something to offer to people flooded out by the recent rains.

Via Sisu.

Today's Blue Mass. Group chat with Chet is still on, but now they're doing it the old-fashioned way: By phone.

Seems NECN wouldn't let Chet chat via Internet Relay Chat (and this after Yahoo cancelled the chat system they were originally planning to use). Details for the 2 p.m. (today) conference call.

Blue Mass. Group will be having a live chat with NECN anchorman Chet Curtis on Tuesday, May 2 at 2 p.m. You'll need an Internet Relay Chat application, but you can get free ones. Details from Blue Mass. Group.