I’ve been sneaking away from my cube a couple of times a day to catch bits and pieces of the World Cup games in our office building’s cafeteria. Earlier today I arrived there just in time to see Radhi Jaidi’s game-tying goal as Tunisia came away with a 2-2 tie against Saudi Arabia.
Online, I’ve been […]

We all love stories. They are part of the essence of our humanness.
We connect to our past through stories. We develop and maintain families and friendships through stories. We often imagine our future in the form of a story.
Well, last week I happened upon a podcast that tells very good stories.
Griddlecakes Radio, […]

Chris Brogan (left) and Chris Penn talk shop at BarCamp Boston last Saturday.

Brogan blogs at ChrisBrogan.com and GrasshopperFactory.com and produces the Fat Guy Gets Fit podcast. He held a session at BarCamp on “Creating Content Networks.”
Penn hosts the Financial Aid Podcast, and was the subject of the second edition of the New Comm Road […]

Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson had a good discussion of the value of blog comments in their May 29 episode of For Immediate Release, a twice-weekly business communications podcast, prompted by an audio comment that I sent to them.
Shel and Neville also tackle Dan Kennedy’s argument that comments really only work well on blogs of […]

 

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John Molori of Media Blitz devotes most of his column this week to the popularity of “fan sites” — most of them blogs — about the Boston Red Sox, my hometown baseball team and object of unwavering and lifelong devotion.
Among the sites mentioned by Molori are Call of the Green Monster, Boston Dirt Dogs (a […]

Boston.com, the online arm for the Boston Globe, my favorite daily newspaper, publishes a number of interesting blogs. Among them are Maura Welch’s Business Filter, which is filled with interesting new-media nuggets; Reiss’s Pieces, which features the latest news on the New England Patriots and was nominated for a 2006 EPpy award as the best […]

The MBTA needs a blog.
I can’t be the only rider of Boston’s public transportation system who doesn’t yet have a full grasp of some of of these pressing issues and questions:

The proposed substantial fare increase in January 2007, only three years after the last hike
The difference between the CharlieCard and CharlieTicket
Why some stations now accept […]

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