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Where the blogging elite meet to greet and eat

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:28:00 -0400

It's always most cool to put faces with the blogs you've been reading for months or even years - let alone catching up with some folks you've known for awhile. Last night, about a dozen of us blogger types, from as far away as Dedham and Dorchester met up at Doyle's Cafe basically just to say hi. Alyssa lists some of the folks and posts photos (including one of me taking a picture of her). Mike Ball proved far more organized than me - he brought name tags (and pens, even). Even the Drew Gilpin Faust Fan Club represented. It was most fun, we should do it again, and next time I should bring the kidlet.

Brookblogging

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:27:07 -0400

Mother Brook is a blog about the country's oldest canal, which connects the Charles and Neponset rivers via Dedham and Hyde Park.

If you don't use 'nofollow' on your blog

adamg — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:31:07 -0400

This is for the bloggers in the audience; everybody else can safely ignore!

A ghostblogging blogger

adamg — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:07:52 -0400

Yes, you can pay somebody to write your blog for you.

The first Rozzie Plain blogger get-together

adamg — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:14:35 -0400

Live in Roslindale or Jamaica Plain (or even just in a neighborhood that borders one of them)? Meet your fellow neighborhood bloggers for a beer:

Wednesday, May 14th, starting at 7 p.m. in the back room (yes, the famous back room) at Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington St. in JP (map).

Name a blog, win a T-shirt

adamg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:26:23 -0400

Ken George, new media honcho at WBUR, is having a bit of trouble coming up with a name for his new blog. Come up with a good name and a This American Life T-shirt (in Chinese) is all yours.

Nobody criticizes Howie, see?

adamg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:05:30 -0400

Dare to complain about how Howie Carr called in a column about how awful the Marathon is? You'll do it on your own site, the Herald tells Tai Irwin, scrubbing its own Web pages clean of the former 'FNX jock's Tai-Rade blog (his blog URL now only brings up "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria").

Free Republic, of all places, has a copy of the offending post, which, OK, takes a dig or two at the Herald ("purchased by over a dozen Bostonians at newsstands"). Scroll down a screen or so.

Via Boston Radio Watch, which posts the e-mail Irwin sent to local media types (scroll down a bit on this page as well).

Busblogging

adamg — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:53:34 -0400

Brian Moore liveblogs his trip to New York on the new BoltBus.

Butch Stearns doesn't seem to get this 'blog' thing

adamg — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:54 -0400

It's one thing for a blogger to make a mistake (heck, I do it all the time). It's quite another for him to read a reply calling him out for that mistake, fix the mistake, then accuse the commenter of making things up. Then again, this is Butch Stearns on Fox25 we're talking about.

It's always fun to dream

adamg — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:31:24 -0400

Future MBTA is the new home of the coolest MBTA what-if maps ever.