Getting ready to ride… can you help?

Image by Paul Keleher via Flickr So, I have been woefully inactive in the personal blog space over the past few weeks. I have been blogging, but unless ou are a reader of the NECN blogs, you wouldn’t actually know it. I’ve been contributing to our business blog (Biz Day Buzz), our gardening blog (New England Gardener), and continuing a little work when I can on News Chowder, our... [Read more]

Trying to build a more community-driven look at news – myself

I have been busy on other blogs, but absent from my own of late… for a number of reasons. Let’s see… among them: 1) my wife and I are buying a house, which has been something out of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Blink” – really, we weren’t planning on it, but it did, and now we’re in the process of purchase and sale, and inspections, and oh yeah, selling... [Read more]

Is there value in general news comments?

OK, first things first. I have been a bad blogger over the past couple of weeks – at least when it comes to the Yankee. I’ll try to make it up to my dedicated throng. But this one has been sitting on my desk for about a week as I go to news sites. It’s comments – the land where quantity swamps quality almost every time. Is there truly a mainstream general news site on the web... [Read more]

The Value of Disconnectedness

I’m writing this on the return leg of a trip to Washington, DC with my wife. We’re on Amtrak, which may be my favorite way to move up and down the Eastern Seaboard, in part because it takes just long enough to force you to disconnect and focus. On the way down from Boston, I was able to tackle something that has sat in my to-do list for weeks. I organized my e-mail. Our company has a limit... [Read more]

Fast footnotes from fleet Marathoners

One of my favorite things to do each Boston Marathon is dig into the numbers at the back of the pack. Because really, that’s where some of the best stories can be found. Like the story in the photo above. Richard Whitehead of the U.K. ran a 3:02 today. I don’t know enough about him or his background right now – I’m looking, but I can tell you that he has cut his marathon time... [Read more]

Farewell to “The Bird”

It’s official – I’m old. I caught myself yesterday saying “back when I was a kid” while talking about Mark Fidrych. And this morning, I found myself reflecting that baseball may never have a Golden Age like the late 1970s again. The Sox-Yankees feud was as ugly as it ever got (when was the last time you remember players actually getting hurt in a baseball fight?), the... [Read more]

Mikeyy and Facebook put me on top

Well, I’m feeling the love this afternoon, since my little old AM segment is the most viewed video on NECN.com for the second time in my last seven segments. So if you want to catch up with the excitement of Mikeyy the Twitter worm and the report that Facebook could lower your GPA – you can do that right here. As for me, it’s been a busy day of little items – so I’ll... [Read more]

The revolution will be tweeted…

The world is paying more attention to the former Soviet republic of Moldova – and they’re doing it 140 characters at a time. Thousands of people in Moldova and its capital, Chisinau, have taken to the streets in protest the Communist government’s win in elections on Sunday – and they’ve used social media to power and raise awareness of the protests. First, a little background... [Read more]

Not now dear, there’s this great White House livestream…

(NECN: Ted McEnroe) – So what were you doing at 5:20 ET this morning? You could have been watching President Obama live in Turkey on your own live White House feed. The White House continued its determined effort to make its workings directly accessible on the Internet, with a livestream of the President’s Town hall meeting with about 100 university students, which in itself was a pretty... [Read more]

Mmmm… investigative journalism pie

I do my best to keep up with Jeff Jarvis over at Buzz Machine, although he writes so prolifically that I always fall behind. Good post from him today – on the Huffington Post contributing $1.75 million to fund investigative journalism efforts around the country. It’s an interesting concept, as is Jeff’s sense that this can be one piece of a pie through which some form of news organizations... [Read more]