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boston.com pulls plans for flaming pumpkin of doom

adamg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:26 -0400

Channel 4 reports the site took down a design for a jack-o-lantern with a three-foot-high flame after an aghast state fire marshal's office complained. The Globe said it agreed to delete the flaming pumpkin even though it "added a warning to only attempt it outdoors, away from flammable materials, and with a fire extinguisher at hand."

boston.com has a fever and the only prescription is more ads

adamg — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:33:07 -0400

The Globe rolled out a tweaked boston.com home page. It's quite something. At least on my monitor, the first screen now has six ads and just three stories, six random headlines and half a photo.

Also, for you bloggy types, they've ditched the daily link to a local blog post, but given more emphasis to the Your Town listing of Globe-specific mini-sites on communities that are not in the city whose name still sits in their masthead.

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Five things boston.com does well

adamg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:05:55 -0400

Adam Pieniazek counts them down.

Globe to make you pay for boston.com

adamg — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:20:52 -0400

The Herald reports.

I wonder if that means they'll get rid of some of the ads (here's looking at you, tag.contextweb.com) that often slow down page loading?

Oh, yeah, the Times confirms the paper is for sale.

There'll be no racial profiling of Daisuke Matsuzaka on the pages of boston.com

adamg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:35:25 -0400

It's one thing to call Matsuzaka a fat, bloated SOB, but quite another to say he got that way by gorging on "dumplings and shumai." So, Pink Hat Hell reports, boston.com has changed the reference in a Tony Massarrotti post to "cheeseburgers."

Boston Web site adds more local pages, still none in Boston itself

adamg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:57:37 -0400

Word out of boston.com is that they've opened up six more Your Town sites, in Hingham, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Norwell and Scituate. Still not a single "Your Neighborhood" site.

Wellesley is a Boston Globe town

Ron Newman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:39:19 -0500

The Boston Globe may be cutting back local news coverage in the city, but out past 128, they've just added a new Your Town page.

Wicked Evil vs. Wicked Local

adamg — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:32:31 -0500

Howard Owens, no longer GateHouse Media's online strategist, explains why GateHouse felt it had to sue the Times over boston.com's Your Town sites.

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It's amazing what's considered art these days

adamg — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:14:41 -0500

Take a look at boston.com's Theater Arts page this morning:

Via an alert reader who pays attention to the arts.

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Never trust statistics

adamg — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:50:05 -0500

This report would make you think boston.com was having some issues - of the ten largest newspaper-based Web sites in the U.S. it was the only one to show a drop in traffic for December as compared to the year before.

But as a Globie graciously informs me (graciously because my original headline on this post was "As if the Globe didn't have enough problems"), the number is misleading: boston.com had unusually high traffic in December, 2007 because of that whole 19-0 Patriots/Super Bowl thing (remember those days?).