Suspicious steel briefcase shuts Symphony Whole Foods

Seem to be to turn it into a giant aggregator site, and leave the serious news to bostonglobe.com. They've hired a couple of reporters recently, who are basically doing the same exact thing I'm doing (you know that Secret Service impersonator on the Lowell Line thing? One of the reporters saw that on Boston Reddit and turned it into a story). Main differences: In addition to local aggregating, they're also doing bizarro national/international stuff ("Nine crazy Malaysian airliner theories that just might be true!"). Also, no local crime stuff - they're leaving that to the oldtimers on staff.

So I bet you when the boston.com redesign comes out within the next couple of months, we'll see the Globe really was serious about turning boston.com into a Huffington Post/Buzzfeed thing, with lots of listicles and slideshows, all in large-size fonts with tons of leading between lines because airy large-size fonts with a lot of space between lines are cool and edgy for some reason, not because the average age of their readers is 76.