Amy Derjue, late of Boston Magazine, is now City Councilor Mike Ross's communications director, Boston Magazine reports.

Hmm, if Ross runs for mayor against John Tobin (hey, it could happen), we'd have blog wars: She'd be competing with blogger Steve Garfield, who put together Tobin's campaign site.

The Globe today highlights little Ellie Brogan, whose birth defect might have consigned her to a liver transplant without a new treatment at Children's Hospital - IV doses of fish oil. You can follow her progress on her parents' Short Gut News blog.

Jim Conley explains why he's pulling the plug on his On Brookline site on Feb. 15: Basically, the bastards have won.

Soapblox, which hosts both Blue Mass. Group and Red Mass. Group, got itself hacked last night and now the guy who runs Soapblox has announced that rather than try to do something about that, he's simply abandoning the whole thing.

For the moment, both colors of our local political blogosphere are still up, but the founders of Blue Mass. Group have issued an urgent plea for help from anybody who knows how to set up the multi-user version of WordPress.

UPDATE: The Soapblox guy says he won't be shutting down; Blue Mass. guys are, however, still looking at alternatives.

The Globe's gone through a lot of changes over the past couple of years, but one thing remains a constant on Morrissey Boulevard: A fixation on stories about the amazing things women can do these days. Like, oh, become tattoo artists. Lissa Harris has started a blog to chronicle all these "Women Do" stories:

... Far from having sprung fully formed from a fit of pique this afternoon, the Women Do Project has been underway for some years--since at least 2006, when I was toiling in the swamps of the Weekly Dig's Media Farm. There, it came to my attention one day that women go bowling. Amazed by this, I did a little poking around, and discovered that women also shoot guns and DJ. Yea, they even blog. There seemed no end to the stuff Globe reporters would uncover about these preternaturally accomplished she-beings. ...

Oh, no, not Joe!

Um, what?

Ken George at WBUR has set up a snow-related Twitter group, so if you're still at this point in the sentence and know what I'm babbling about, put #snow1219 in your tweets. If you want to follow the posts, look here or here.

The first is that James Aloisi would be a big mistake as state transportation secretary.

The second is that it would be most cool if bloggers of all political stripes got together to blog for joy and help out a charity this holiday season.

Chronicle tomorrow night features the work of independent video producers, including our own Steve Garfield, who posts photos of a video crew shooting him shooting interviews.