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The end of the road for four Boston neighborhood papers
One of the many wonderful things about living in Greater Boston is the abundance of community and neighborhood newspapers — something we take for granted, but that is rare in other parts of the...
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Blog like a journalist
The revolutionary gleam has faded. Yet blogging remains at the center of the digital media toolbox. Previously published at Medium. From the vantage point of 2014, offering advice on how to write a...
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Learning to love the new Google Maps
View Larger Map For several years I’ve asked students in my digital journalism classes to do a group project involving Google Maps. It’s a pretty simple assignment. They go out and write reviews for...
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Did Verizon pull a fast one on Marty Walsh?
At Universal Hub, cybah analyzes two Huffington Post articles by Bruce Kushnick, executive director of the New Networks Institute, and concludes that Boston Mayor Marty Walsh may have gotten taken for...
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Twitter reportedly bans Mass. political gadfly Shiva Ayyadurai
Shiva Ayyadurai, in white hat. Photo (cc) 2019 by Marc Nozell. Massachusetts Republican gadfly Shiva Ayyadurai has been banned from Twitter, most likely for claiming that he’d lost his most recent race...
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Globe Direct is hauled off to the landfill
Globe Direct is no more. And here is the email. Trigger warning: the term "right-size" appears. (Oops, sorry.) pic.twitter.com/g6BkJOzglX — Dan Kennedy (@dankennedy_nu) May 26, 2022 Twitter is...
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The numbers show why it’s difficult for many to walk away from Twitter
Thanks for the traffic, Bob! Photo (cc) 2011 by Francisco Antunes. I was looking at my WordPress statistics for 2022, and one number really leaped out at me. Twitter was the third-largest source of...
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Adam Gaffin has been making digital connections in Boston since the early 1990s
Adam Gaffin On this week’s “What Works” podcast, Ellen Clegg and I talk with Adam Gaffin, founder of Universal Hub and inventor of the French Toast Alert System. Universal Hub tracks news in the Boston...
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Greater Boston arts and local news get a boost from three new nonprofit projects
There’s good news about local news in Greater Boston today on three fronts. I’ll start with an attempt to revive arts reviews — at one time a staple of mainstream and alternative publications, but now...
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Paul Bass, a hyperlocal pioneer, talks about his national network of arts and...
Paul Bass checks the 2021 New Haven election returns. Photo by Maaisha Osman. Used with permission. On the latest “What Works” podcast, Ellen Clegg and I talk with Paul Bass, the founder and former...
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