Weekly Dig

Clover to Boston media: Leave us alone

adamg — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:27:48 +0000

Clover, the non-meat food truck and Harvard Square restaurant, takes exception to being put in a Weekly Dig "Best of" listing:

What are these "best of" things anyway? They're a way for these publications to (a) advertise by piggybacking on businesses who are "awarded," and (b) a way for publishers to drive more traffic to their website/ publication. Does any of that have to do with food? Does it have to do with low prices? Does it speed up our serve times? Does it have to do with our relationships with our customers? Does it have anything to do with sourcing ingredients? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Dig Publisher Jeff Lawrence responds in his typical, understated manner:

You pompous pr*ck!

Via Boston Reddit.

Phoenix to UHub: You got punked

adamg — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:49:13 +0000

Phoenix Editor Carly Carioli has a short reply to the Dig item - which we, being good little media sponges, sucked right in - about how Entercom might be thinking of buying and shutting down WFNX to move WEEI to FM:

For the record: it's total bullshit.

No doubt Jeff Lawrence is formulating a response at this very moment.

When did Rupert Murdoch re-buy the Herald?

adamg — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:44:00 +0000

It's in the Dig's Media Farm this week, so it must be true, right?

... It's worth noting that Sulzberger owns the Boston Globe and that Murdoch owns the Boston Herald, the rival dailies in this proud two-newspaper town. ...

Apparently the Dig doesn't pay its writers enough to let them reproduce

adamg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:04:18 +0000

Give Media Farm props for going to the Save the Globe rally at Faneuil Hall last week and interviewing Rami Salami on what he thought about all those people at the microphone behind him as he tried to make an honest living selling balloon hats.

But, sheesh, only a crew of childless 20somethings could complain about the presence of "children who probably should have been in school at noon on a Friday (so they can learn how to read)," because the rest of us know that last week was school-vacation week in Massachusetts, so there wasn't any school for those kids to go to.

Somebody really hates the Dig

adamg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:04:51 +0000

Mike Mennonno reports watching in bemusement today as a distinguished-looking older gentleman opened a Weekly Dig box down by Emerson, took out all the copies of this week's issue, tossed them into a nearby trash can, then crossed the street and repeated the process with the Dig box on the other side.

Menino to ban kids, teens from MFA, BPL?

adamg — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:23:03 +0000

Above: Channel 4 attempts to educate its audience about our latest crisis without giving them the vapors.

Oh, the horror! The Dig runs a cover showing crudely drawn cartoons of naked people and our little provincial backwater goes all to hell. As Channel 4 reports:

"It's totally irresponsible to have a photo like this in a paper that's widely distributed around our city," Menino said. "Young children can see it. It's not what we should be showing our young people."

Right. So keep them out of the MFA. Because you sure wouldn't want them to see this or this or this or this (and could somebody tell the mayor that a cartoon is not a photo?).

And we don't even need to bring up this scandalous statue - just a short walk from the children's room at the Copley Square BPL!

But Hizzona also wants to try to get Dig honor boxes uprooted from locations near city buildings - because you know how productivity must be suffering, what with frenzied hordes of Assessing and DPW workers racing out of their offices in a mad dash to Dig boxes.

Below: The shocking cover. If you're under 18, or are prone to inexplicable bouts of screaming hysteria, or are the mayor, stop looking now!

Phoenix digs up a new music editor

adamg — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:44:33 +0000

Sam Baltrusis has the scoop.

Dig publisher: Editor was really a reporter

adamg — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:30:04 +0000

Boston Magazine interviews Weekly Dig Publisher Jeff Lawrence on why he canned Dig Editor Michael Brodeur (since then, the paper's managing editor and one of its reporters have also quit).

Dig publisher cans Dig editor

adamg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:28:15 +0000

Jeff Lawrence fires Michael Brodeur; doesn't plan to replace him. Or so we hear.

A Dig editor ventured south of Landmark Center once - and was never heard from again

adamg — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:32:36 +0000

The Weekly Dig's Boston Slice is allegedly "a comprehensive list of slices available around the city" yet doesn't list a single place south of the Fenway - although Cambridge does merit several mentions. Even the Upper Crust in Brookline fails to rate a listing. Oh, well, I guess the secret is out: Down here in the boonies, a fun night out consists of going over to the nearest crick and wrasslin' up some gators and squirrels. Them's good eatin'.

Can you Dig it?

adamg — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:51:55 +0000

Yes, you can. Woot! weeklydig.com is back to being an actual site again. And they're using Drupal, which is what Universal Hub uses, so they obviously have considerable taste and discernment.

Now to actually see what they did on their month+ off ...

Memo to the Weekly Dig

adamg — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:18:40 +0000

You might want to change that "Coming in July" graphic on your un-Web site (or, even better, just re-direct the whole thing to zombocom).

Speaking of Web things that have disappeared into the ether, looks like the Guardian Angels haven't updated their blog since June. 'Sup, guys?

weeklydig.com held hostage: Day 912

adamg — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:12:54 +0000

We know the new (old) owner doesn't have much money left after buying the paper back from the adults, but, really: Entire civilizations have fallen in less time than it's taken the Dig to not finish its online redesign (but classy move leaving an ad up on your "Can we finish this in less time than it took the Big Dig?" page).

Boy, that must be some redesign they're working on over at the Dig

adamg — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:09:45 +0000

weeklydig.com is incognito these days as those rapscallions overhaul their Web site. Dudes: Might be time to invest in one of those staging server things that are all the rage in Web circles these days. You can get one for, oh, the cost of three or four iPhones.

Should they call the bomb squad?

adamg — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:49:28 +0000

Dig staffers cower under their desks today as a strange electronic device in their lobby just sits there, ominously.