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By adamg - 9/15/08 - 8:59 am

John Keith happened to take a screen shot of the boston.com home page around 9 p.m. yesterday. Looks a bit different than the nytimes.com home page of about the same time.

By adamg - 8/14/08 - 9:50 pm

Adam Reilly has the details on Tony Massarotti jumping from the Herald to the Globe, where he'll become "the face and voice of boston.com sports." He also reports on Gordon Edes' replacement.

Dan Kennedy: Massarotti is a leading reason to read the Herald, so this is a huge, huge loss. Also shows Globe is taking weei.com seriously as a threat, he says.

Earlier:
WEEI to pose threat to Boston Dirt Dogs.

By adamg - 3/21/08 - 12:17 pm

When people like Dan Kennedy and Pax Arcana woke up this morning, they were faced with an abomination on boston.com: A Globe op-ed piece reproduced entirely as a giant .GIF image. boston.com has since done the right thing and turned it into text that the visually impaired can read and which won't give people with 20/20 vision headaches.

Equally impressive, at least boston.com-wise, was how its obituary on that poor Newton kid who died of the flu actually has a link to a YouTube video of him playing the piano.

By adamg - 2/25/08 - 2:08 pm

Yeah, cute commercials boston.com's been running of late, no? Unfortunately, boston.com seems to have some problems figuring out Boston neighborhoods. The Missus fumes how the site initially identified Aria as "a South End nightclub:"

By adamg - 1/31/08 - 9:25 am

Maureen Rogers lists the ways she is sick of the whole thing.

Harry, meanwhile, explains why some boston.com feature that shows alleged top Super Bowl commercials sucks:

... It is a 2008 version of Suck.com. It's lame most importantly because nobody really enjoys having their choices in such a feature filtered by the opinion of some wretch at boston.com. ...

By adamg - 1/28/08 - 9:42 am

See Kerry Healey party with Duran Duran '80s-style.

How can you resist? Well, OK, easily, but still.

By adamg - 1/24/08 - 10:05 am

Boston.com - Shoveling

Chris Fournier points us to this boston.com ad, which pretty much sums up winter in Boston, in a perfect so-don't-I sort of way.

By adamg - 1/9/08 - 12:53 pm

It only shifts the problems to sidewalks, where teens now take risks as they ride bicycles shirtless in the middle of winter. At least, that's what this package from boston.com seems to indicate:

Tough!
By adamg - 9/27/07 - 8:44 pm

The online staff seems to have left for the day (save for the Extra Bases guy). As I type, it's 8:35 p.m. and there's nothing on boston.com about a 3 p.m. shooting across from the Forest Hills T stop that lots of people saw, heard or watched the aftermath of (many because Washington Street/Hyde Park Avenue traffic was all messed up).

By adamg - 9/19/07 - 2:45 pm

Geoff Edgers reports you can now post comments to boston.com blogs, like, oh, his:

... The procedure: I get to see all the comments before they go up. Then I have a choice... to post, or not to post. I'm pretty active on this blog, but there may be a six or eight hour period when I'm not by the tubes. Be patient. The delay doesn't mean I dislike what you have to say. It just means I'm sleeping or on a run. ...

By adamg - 9/7/07 - 4:23 pm

How else to explain the live frickin' updates from the opening of the new Natick Mall? Jesus.

... A stone's throw from the state's first Nordstrom department store is Stil, the only local business to be awarded a spot in the new Natick Collection expansion. ...

Oh, and how lucky they must feel!

Ed. nauseous note: Yes, of course, it's no longer the Natick Mall but the Natick Collection of Stuff for the Ruling Class.

By adamg - 7/27/07 - 12:35 pm

It's so bad they've sent in Duck Boats to pick up survivors:

That's flooded!

Thanks to Dave for noticing this. Hmm, I wonder why nobody else is reporting on this?

By adamg - 7/10/07 - 11:12 am

Yesterday, bostonherald.com posted a Red Sox mid-season report that requires 33 clicks to read in its entirety. Today, boston.com responds by whipping out a 63-click Red Sox mid-season report that also lets you click on a mini-poll on each page.

If anybody actually finishes the entire thing, let me know how that finger splint is working out.

Via Dan Kennedy.

By adamg - 7/3/07 - 9:49 am

JP Butler reports that you can now use the boston.com search engine to find specific video reports and podcasts from local TV stations and podcasters - they've hired a company to transcribe them and then index the transcriptions. Do a search, then click on the Multimedia tab.

By adamg - 6/26/07 - 10:59 am

Boston.com: Study links hurricanes to teen smokers

Deb Geisler read that headline and had a wonderful idea:

For one brief, shining moment, I figured all we had to do to stop the hurricanes was move the teen smokers to New Mexico or Arizona.

But then she read the story.

By adamg - 6/14/07 - 4:25 pm

Almost every single time some out-of-the-ordinary big news story happens, boston.com seems to do its best to hide it from us with an ad (dating at least back to last year's Emerson scaffolding collapse). They've done it again today: State Legislature takes historic vote and refuses to put gay marriage on the ballot and what do boston.com visitors see on the home page?

Where's the news?

If you squint really hard, way down at the bottom, you can see about half a headline about something that happened at the State House today.

OK, if you wait, the ad "rolls up," but really, editorial folks, don't you have any pull with the advertising department anymore?

Via Spatch, who exults:

LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS ALL UP AND DOWN THE COAST! BRAND NEW STORES TO SHOP AT! HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH!

oh yeah and also our state's proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was totally defeated but that's just some picayune bit of news that goes on the front page under the BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG AD that says LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!1111 ...
By adamg - 5/8/07 - 9:11 am

Anybody else not able to get to the site? I can't get to it from work, Universal Hub's host or the World.

By adamg - 4/24/07 - 10:26 pm

Nothing like a nice large ad for some Reese's candy bar to accompany an article about childhood obesity.

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