Media

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 Boston [...]

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 [...]

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 its [...]

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 [...]

Dan Kennedy, March 13, 2009: If being cautiously optimistic about the future of the Globe makes me hopelessly naive, then I offer my deepest apologies. Dan Kennedy, April 3, 2009: I am told the Times Co. is serious as a heart attack regarding its threat to close the paper. [C]an we please get real? Now [...]

Boston Globe reporter John S. Canellos is moved by a segment on a cable comedy show to proclaim that traditional news media – the mainstream media, if you will – “should live up to its own ideals” and not be duped by life’s many hawkers and peddlers. That’s rather slick of him. The people he [...]

Boston sports talk radio station WEEI has launched a new and much improved web site with a ton of content form the show, original content for the site, AP reports and other third-party material. Very nice work. Most room for improvement is on the team pages which right now are little WEEI-branded islands hosted by [...]

WJIB AM 740, the memories Station, Boston’s home of the Beautiful Music, finally has a web site, WJIB740.com. The Cambridge, MA, station is also in the midst of its fund-raising drive. WJIB, which plays “a pleasant mix of 30′s-through-60′s ‘adults-standards’ and softer hits from the 50′s through-80′s,” is funded by listener contributions. The 2009 budget [...]

A few days ago I watched No Reservations and it struck me that it is quite a bit better than critics would have made you believe when it was released in 2007. A couple of days after watching No reservations I saw Definitely, Maybe. While I by and large enjoyed No Reservations I found Definitely, [...]