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By adamg - 9/20/05 - 11:31 pm
Lefty blogs in Massachusetts are posting about health care this week to try to help get 100,000 signatures on petitions for a ballot question aimed at providing health care to the uninsured in Massachusetts:
In the first two days of our week-long blitz, many progressive blogs in MA have written posts with stories, policy analysis, and ideas about framing the issue.
By adamg - 9/18/05 - 11:13 pm
Chris has posted a list of city-council candidates with Web sites.
Jason, who lives in JP, explains why he's leaning toward Gibran Rivera over incumbent John Tobin in the West Roxbury/Jamaica Plain district, including:
By adamg - 9/13/05 - 9:21 am
After several months, Ben is back, at least long enough to mock Elect Mitt Romney President in 2008 Blog!.
The exclamation site is loving Mitt's handling of the Katrina flood evacuees. Ben thoughtfully links to a 2004 article about Mitt vetoing an appropriation to help Peabody recover from some flooding:
By adamg - 8/31/05 - 7:56 pm
In these troubled times, what's more soothing than fluffy kitties? How about fluffy kitties on Brookley Road in JP? How about fluffy kitties on Brookley Road in JP with their own blog?
By adamg - 8/24/05 - 12:08 pm
Is it too much to ask that a Boston media critic know what's going on in the local media? Especially one who has basically been covering and working in the local media for years now?
I ask the question after reading this week's Don't Quote Me in the Phoenix, in which new (also old) Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz goes on and on about the reaction among black journalists to the New York Times starting a newspaper in Gainesville, Fla. aimed at blacks.
By adamg - 7/20/05 - 10:35 am
David provides the story behind the story of how BU came to fire former Herald sports columnists Michael Gee as a journalism instructor:
... I didn't just, all of the sudden start fishing for salacious stories involving out-of-sight-out-of-mind-ex-columnists-at-major-dailies. That's not something that interests me a great deal, to be honest. But someone posting comments of questionable nature regarding a college student at a local university in a journalism course (!!!) – for Heaven's sake!
By adamg - 7/8/05 - 1:47 pm
Via Jay comes the news that new (also, old) Phoenix media critic Mark Jurkowitz is now writing his own Media Log.
Coupla stylin' suggestions: Use paragraph marks instead of line breaks to separate, well, paragraphs. Much easier to read. And turn off the Word "smart quote" stuff (ick!) that turns your apostrophes into gibberish.
By eeka - 7/8/05 - 9:19 am
Dude, how come when I go to "our blogs," the last several entries are mine and they're all like a month apart? Does no one blog in their blogs?
By adamg - 6/27/05 - 5:15 pm
Yes, Jody also read that Globe story about the bloggers getting paid for product placement, including that guy who said he gets $5 for each product-specific post:
By adamg - 6/26/05 - 5:19 pm
I was going to write some ranty, holier-than-thou screed about how Jeff Cutler annoys me. But instead, I suggest you read this Globe story about bloggers writing posts for the highest bidder (which in his case is $5), then check out his blog and come to your own conclusions.
Jay has a suggestion for bloggers:
By adamg - 6/25/05 - 12:47 pm
We'd previously discussed the Burrito Blog - one man's chronicle of his search for the perfect burrito in Boston. I am an American and I Eat Hot Dogs extends the concept to hot dogs. Where's the spring-roll blog?
By adamg - 6/25/05 - 11:08 am
At least, from his Media Watch blog. He reports his successor (and predecessor), Mark Jurkowitz, will take up the blogging thing, though.
Jay bets Dan'll be back blogging soon enough on his dankennedy.net.
By adamg - 6/20/05 - 8:17 pm
David: No, I'm not keeping up with your blog:
... I've been faking it for a while. Months. Maybe a year. If we've met and I look confused about something you told me, and if you said, "I blogged it," as if that should be explanation enough, I've made some excuse as if I read every one of your posts except that one.
The truth is, I probably haven't read your blog in weeks. Months maybe. ...
By stevegarfield - 6/12/05 - 5:08 pm
The Berkman Blog Group formed an Art Mob and stormed the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston and ruthlessly blogged the current art exhibit, Getting Emotional, with text, audio, video, and pencils.
By adamg - 6/10/05 - 9:06 am
Instead of a conference room at Harvard, the Berkman Thursday night blogging and dinner society massed at the ICA, to view the "Getting Emotional" exhibit.
By adamg - 5/27/05 - 4:56 pm
Michael wins the award for best blog headline of the day in a post in which he notes the strange confluence on a single Jamaica Plain street of the Parking Nazi, that poor old woman who got murdered and Julie Goodridge, the lead plantiff in last year's precendent-setting gay-marriage decision. Oh, yeah, and city Councilor John Tobin, who doesn't live on the street, but who does represent it and who fascinates Michael:
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