Media

Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub fame has updated the directory of Boston blogs at BostonBlogs.com. He mentioned in a tweet that the churn of blogs is quite high so it is not a bad idea at all to check it out every now and then.
The blogs are listed by Boston neighborhood - or [...]

A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub’s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot chicks in them (she didn’t exactly [...]

[12/18 update: The first change in the aftermath of the birth of WBZ-FM was pretty dull. AM-890, Boston's ESPN Radio station, went silent in October and switched to a Spanish-language music format on December 3. Nothing yet has happened with the stronger signals of WEEI or WRKO.]
Life can get boring if one demands a plethora [...]

104.1 WBCN - the self-proclaimed Rock of Boston - will soon be moved from terrestrial glory to the Internet graveyard, as originally reported by Adam Reilly on his media blog at ThePhoenix.com. The station’s owner CBS is moving Mix (WBMX) from its current signal 98.5 to WBCN’s. 98.5 will in turn be taken over by [...]

I ran a small handful of keyword searches that are near and dear to me in Microsoft’s new search engine Bing today and found that the gossip section in the Boston Herald, the Inside Track Gals, used one of my pictures on May 11 to illustrate some item related to the the Boston Celtics Dancers.
Google’s [...]

some nitwit who copied passages because the idea of writing was more appealing than the writing itself.
Udolpho.com on Ben Domenech, 3/26/2006
New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd (461) has gotten herself into a pinch by lifting a paragraph written by blogger Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo fame and using it in one [...]

Metro USA has been sold by its Swedish owner to a company called Seabay Media, which is headed by Metro’s former CEO, Pelle Tornberg (Törnberg in Swedish) who’s widely regarded as the newspapers founder. Metro’s American newspapers have a week-daily circulation of 590,000 and supposedly snag 1.2 million readers in Philadelphia, New York, and [...]

It was only recently that the New England Patriots started using Twitter to communicate with the team’s fans but they are now fully embracing so-called micro-blogging as a way to communicate with the fans.
Realpatriots is the team’s main account. PATRIOTSdotCOM is announces new material on the Patriots web site. PatriotPlace promotes the Patriot Place retail [...]

Everybody’s favorite Cambridge radio station, WJIB 740-AM, is mentioned and its owner Bob Bittner quoted in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on commercial radio stations asking listeners for contributions (subscription may be req.). The article points to the dramatic decline in radio advertising revenue (-9% in 2008) as reason, but WJIB launched [...]

Here’s a screenshot of a Google Maps search I found in the traffic log:

As you can see, the search for ‘”Public Garden” in pennsylvaniA’ threw Google for a bit of a loop. It clearly discarded the state of Pennsylvania as an option and presumably went for a Public Garden close to Pennsylvania Avenue (or Pennsylvania [...]