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By adamg - 12/18/09 - 2:54 pm

Does the fact that Paul Pierce's new boston.com blog is really "as told to" rather than something from his own hand detract from it in any way? At least the Globe is up front (well, bottom of blog) about the fact that reporter Julian Benbow is the one actually composing the sentences that appear on screen; it's not like they hired somebody like this.

By david_yamada - 12/15/09 - 11:02 am

Too often, blogging is characterized as a chance to sit down at the computer and yammer away to our heart's content, without much editing, planning, or, umm, thinking. And then we expect the world to somehow discover and embrace our pearls of wisdom.

By adamg - 12/11/09 - 4:54 pm

Social Media Guidance & Best Practices - Some of it's specific to state-government bloggers, but some of the advice (like the stuff on knowing your audience) is fun for the whole family.

By theszak - 12/10/09 - 8:07 pm

Where's an obit for Milt Raymond?... What reminiscences have folks of Milt Raymond?...

By adamg - 12/7/09 - 11:50 am

Looks like Huffington Post, which already has local sites in Chicago, New York and Denver, might be getting closer to Boston - it's set up a Boston People Twitter list. But then again, if you look at the other lists they have, one is called Boise Sports.

Via Steve Garfield.

By GarrettQuinn - 12/5/09 - 11:14 am

Patrick at Red Mass Group points out that David and others at Blue Mass Group are grasping for straws with their argument that Scott Brown is violating elections law. He points out that Martha Coakley is doing the exact same thing, too.

By adamg - 12/3/09 - 11:29 pm

Valleywag reports the daily shopping e-mail newsletter for women is shutting its Boston edition now that Comcast, which paid $125 million for the operation a year or so ago, realizes there's no way it can recoup its investment fully staffing the provincial towns outside New York and a few other large cities. Boston subscribers will instead get an "everywhere" edition with a couple of Boston tidbits thrown in now and again.

By adamg - 12/1/09 - 12:06 am

Greg Cook, who covers New England arts news on his New England Journal of Aesthetic Research (including some scoops on the Rose Art Museum situation), has won a $30,000 grant from the Creative Capital and Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program:

Representing a range of genres from scholarly studies to self-published blogs, the twenty-six selected projects are united by their dual commitment to the craft of writing and the advancement of critical discourse on contemporary visual art.

By adamg - 11/24/09 - 9:15 am

Thary Lim portrays life in one Salem neighborhood in both words and pictures.

By adamg - 11/21/09 - 12:12 pm

The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is now blog enabled.

Via NorthEndWaterfront.com.

By adamg - 11/17/09 - 9:07 am

WBUR reports on KennedySeat.com, the anonymously penned (um, typed) Web site that's keeping tabs on the Senate race like nobody's business. Reporter Monica Brady-Myerov gets the writer to dish a few details about himself (he's 29 and worked on Beacon Hill) and reports the site has put the fear of God into at least some people working on campaigns:

... But [the anonymity] is also a concern, according to an aide on one of the Senate campaigns who doesn't want to be named for fear of crossing the influential Web site. ...

Which gets a total of 550 visitors a day, most of them, apparently, campaign insiders.

By adamg - 11/6/09 - 8:06 am

The motto at Son of Codman Square is "Positive Media Should Never Be Hard To Find!" So far, it seems to be concentrating mainly on local school sports.

Via Whalehead King.

By adamg - 11/4/09 - 11:02 pm

Justin Rice reports his BPSsports.com will cover all the activity at local public schools - and give high-school and college students a chance to commit some journalism. He starts with a look at South Boston High's only female varsity football player.

By massmarrier - 10/31/09 - 7:35 pm

So, there we were at the Westin Waterfront hearing Adam on the Rail-Volution panel telling truth about the power and/or impotence of blogs. When is Adam going to blog about blogging?

By adamg - 10/26/09 - 1:25 pm

Jenny Frazier recounts, links to other reports from the event.

By adamg - 10/24/09 - 12:48 pm

Mayor Menino, Police Commissioner Ed Davis and other city officials gathered at the Milky Way this morning to announce a partnership with Neighbors for Neighbors, a social-networking effort setting up online gathering spots for 18 Boston neighborhoods.

By adamg - 10/19/09 - 12:29 pm

Boston Police are looking for somebody who'd like to design a logo for BPDNews. No money, but they will issue a press release and photo.

By adamg - 10/15/09 - 10:07 am

The venerable police blog has a new logo and now links to all the other online services Boston Police offer, including crime maps, district e-mail alerts (which seem mostly unused these days), but also YouTube copies of the "Call the Cops" cable show and Neighbors for Neighbors, an effort by former E-13 community liaison Joe Porcelli to build a social network for each of Boston's neighborhoods.

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