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Alternate-history week at boston.com
By adamg - 1/2/12 - 12:11 pmSome lucky visitors to the Globe's breaking-news blog have been enjoying a what-if ad for at least the past couple of days. Hey, at least we still have T.C., right?
Today's least likely to actually be true boston.com headline
By adamg - 9/12/11 - 5:33 pm
Eagle-eyed Ron Newman, who actually scrolls all the way down the boston.com homepage, noticed this link today, perhaps written by somebody with even less of a grasp on actual Boston geography than I have.
And now, not a word from our sponsor
By adamg - 7/1/11 - 3:46 pmBoston.com announces it's gotten rid of all its pop-under ads.
Wicked frickin' pissa, eh?
By adamg - 4/12/11 - 3:48 pmDan Kennedy reports the Globe has given up trying to moderate story comments on boston.com and is outsourcing the whole thing to some company in Winnipeg. No profanity allowed and stop making accusations about Carl Crawford; one wonders whether wise-guy Boston trolls will try to sneak any Boston-English variants past the Manitobans.
Cool, I can run Globe photos without getting permission now!
By adamg - 10/21/10 - 10:18 amUPDATE: Heard back from a boston.com editor, who says the photo "slipped through the cracks" and that they'll take care of it.
At least, that's what I'm assuming after seeing one of my photos show up on the front page of the Globe's Back Bay Your Town site without anybody from the Globe asking for permission. I realize there's fair use and I always appreciate links from giant media organizations (and I certainly do my share of linking to Globe stuff), but really, running an entire photo at near original size without asking first? Seems a bit much. Especially since somebody might now think the photo is copyright 2010 New York Times Co., when it's not.
See the duck photo below? Yeah, there's a reason it looks familar:
Psst, guys, the Red Line goes to Harvard Square, not Harvard Ave.
By adamg - 9/30/10 - 10:53 amDid they advertise the new Dorchester site with a photo of the Blue Line?
H/t to the tipster who sent this in.
Globe to go behind online paywall
By adamg - 9/30/10 - 10:47 amAnnounces two tiers of online access: Stuff produced by Globe reporters at bostonglobe.com, which you'll have to pay to see, and something at the current boston.com that sounds like G online with a bit of breaking daily news that happened too late to get into the paper. Plus more exciting pop-up ads:
BostonGlobe.com, with the goal of creating a "lean-back experience" for readers, will have a simpler, newspaper-like design with less intrusive ads, he said.
boston.com loses editor to Washington
By adamg - 9/29/10 - 10:31 amDan Kennedy relays the news that boston.com's Dave Beard is leaving to help the National Journal crush Politico.
boston.com launches barrage of Boston neighborhood sites
By adamg - 9/9/10 - 8:31 pmAlthough they're still called "Your Town:"
Globe disables entire online business directory until it can figure out how to block escort ads
By adamg - 9/7/10 - 7:59 amThe Globe reports on itself, quotes a statement from a Globe spokesman that boston.com has turned off a business directory until it can discover how the escort ads highlighted by local blogger Dave Copeland (note to boston.com readers: here's the link you won't find there) got into its system.
Copeland himself praises the Globe for acting quickly, but adds the real point is that pressure on Craigslist to shut down its ads isn't going to stop losers like Markoff:
Let's face it - the Craigslist Killer has a nice ring to it, but he easily could have been the Google Adsense Killer, The Boston Phoenix Killer or the Erotic Review Killer. And, most likely he would have done what he did, one way or another: the guy was sick and needed money and these things happen with or without free speech.
