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Cool, I can run Globe photos without getting permission now!

By adamg - 10/21/10 - 11:18 am

UPDATE: Heard back from a boston.com editor, who says the photo "slipped through the cracks" and that they'll take care of it.

At least, that's what I'm assuming after seeing one of my photos show up on the front page of the Globe's Back Bay Your Town site without anybody from the Globe asking for permission. I realize there's fair use and I always appreciate links from giant media organizations (and I certainly do my share of linking to Globe stuff), but really, running an entire photo at near original size without asking first? Seems a bit much. Especially since somebody might now think the photo is copyright 2010 New York Times Co., when it's not.

See the duck photo below? Yeah, there's a reason it looks familar:

Photo looks familiar

Psst, guys, the Red Line goes to Harvard Square, not Harvard Ave.

By adamg - 9/30/10 - 11:53 am

Did they advertise the new Dorchester site with a photo of the Blue Line?

Red Line ad

H/t to the tipster who sent this in.

Globe to go behind online paywall

By adamg - 9/30/10 - 11:47 am

Announces two tiers of online access: Stuff produced by Globe reporters at bostonglobe.com, which you'll have to pay to see, and something at the current boston.com that sounds like G online with a bit of breaking daily news that happened too late to get into the paper. Plus more exciting pop-up ads:

BostonGlobe.com, with the goal of creating a "lean-back experience" for readers, will have a simpler, newspaper-like design with less intrusive ads, he said.

boston.com loses editor to Washington

By adamg - 9/29/10 - 11:31 am

Dan Kennedy relays the news that boston.com's Dave Beard is leaving to help the National Journal crush Politico.

boston.com launches barrage of Boston neighborhood sites

By adamg - 9/9/10 - 9:31 pm

Although they're still called "Your Town:"

Globe disables entire online business directory until it can figure out how to block escort ads

By adamg - 9/7/10 - 8:59 am

The Globe reports on itself, quotes a statement from a Globe spokesman that boston.com has turned off a business directory until it can discover how the escort ads highlighted by local blogger Dave Copeland (note to boston.com readers: here's the link you won't find there) got into its system.

Now that the Globe's chased escort ads off Craigslist, how do you find an escort in Boston?

By adamg - 9/6/10 - 10:12 am

Why, boston.com and its handy search engine.

UPDATE: Blogger gets results as boston.com turns off the escort ads.

Boston.com to finally launch local site in Boston

By adamg - 8/19/10 - 9:11 pm

The Globe will launch a South Boston Your Town site on Sept. 9, Mike Wallace at boston.com tweets. This will be boston.com's first neighborhood site in Boston.

Will Patch have every Boston neighborhood covered before boston.com does even one Your Town site in its own city?

By adamg - 7/14/10 - 11:53 pm

The AOL hypermicrominisuperlocal effort is opening up sites for Jamaica Plain and the South End.

Commenters on boston.com articles powered by Mountain Dew, dieuretics and bananas

By adamg - 6/18/10 - 5:22 pm

Somehow, that all makes sense. The Globe talks to some of the people who post replies to its articles, although not the hard-core trollers who blame Obama for car crashes on Gallivan Boulevard. For some reason, they didn't want to be quoted for the record.

The cesspoolization of online commenting has gotten so bad, the Globe reports, "even the Chinese government has had enough."

AOL goes where boston.com fears to tread

By adamg - 6/13/10 - 10:50 pm

AOL's Patch hyperlocal network is advertising jobs for editors of new sites in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Charlestown and the South End, as well as all of Boston, according to postings on the AOL corporate site.

The incursion is a full scale attack on, well, almost nobody, since boston.com has yet to set up a single Your Town hyperlocal site in the city it's named for. The South End News does have a longstanding site, unlike the Back Bay Courant, which doesn't get this InterWebs thing.

If the Times doesn't want people reading boston.com headlines and blurbs for free, maybe it shouldn't publish RSS feeds

By adamg - 6/10/10 - 9:32 am

Kimberley Isbell at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab examines the legal issues behind the hullabaloo over the iPad RSS aggregator the Times hates because it came with Times and boston.com RSS feeds built in.

Globe publisher: No decision yet on paywall for boston.com

By adamg - 5/19/10 - 7:30 pm

Christopher Mayer told Emily Rooney on "Greater Boston" tonight he and other Globe execs are still studying how to make consumers pay for their news online - like they do for the paper edition.

Mayer pointed to some considerations:

On being un-invited as a boston.com blogger

By adamg - 5/13/10 - 8:34 pm

Mike Mennonno reports on being asked and then un-asked to be a voice from the community:

... Frankly, I feel a little bit like the girl who got invited to the prom as a cruel joke in one of those early '80s "After-School Specials." Or Carrie.

At least this isn't a case of yellow journalism

By adamg - 3/11/10 - 3:09 pm

Globe: Workers evacuated after white powder found in S. Boston building
Channel 5: Mystery Green Powder Prompts Evacuations

Interestingly, they both rely on the same source at the Boston Fire Department. Wonder what color Channel 25 thinks it was?

Next up: Pictures of people listed in the phone book

By adamg - 3/5/10 - 10:49 am

Oh, come on, boston.com, you're not even trying any more. Having played out the idea of "photos of people who look like other people" and "photos of dogs who look like their owners," the site is now reduced to running photos of random Boston-area pets - taken by Boston Magazine, no less.

Boston.com Over-moderated site

By laurence_glavin - 2/25/10 - 10:16 pm

If you decide to comment on an article appearing in the Boston Globe's web site, you'd better be careful of the words you use, even if in the context of your statement the word is perfectly harmless. I tried to enter a comment following their classical-music critic Jeremy Eichler's story on the schedule of operas next season by Opera Boston. I expressed the hope that they would not add any distracting features such as the video the Boston Lyric Opera inserted into their their staging of Benjamin Britten's setting of the Henry James novella "Turn of the Screw". (One opera being staged is Beethoven's "Fidelio" a piece with a story line that could be interpreted as being political in nature.

Two Vastly Different Headlines, Same Story

By david_yamada - 1/30/10 - 9:02 am

This morning's boston.com ran this headline and subhead describing yesterday's Presidential appearance at the Republican Congressional retreat in Baltimore:

Obama, GOP exchange scoldings in rare debate
President Obama denied he was a Bolshevik, Republicans denied they were obstructionists, and both sides denied they were to blame for toxic politics. (New York Times)

Here's the headline and subhead on nytimes.com describing the same event:

Off Script, Obama and the G.O.P. Vent Politely
By PETER BAKER and CARL HULSE
President Obama attended a House Republican retreat for a robust debate on policies and politics with the opposition, a rarity in the scripted world of American politics.

When are editors ever going to learn not to futz around with technology on Election Day?

By adamg - 1/19/10 - 1:21 pm

The Phoenix catches boston.com putting up an interactive map showing Coakley has won the election several hours before the polls closed.

boston.com pulls plans for flaming pumpkin of doom

By adamg - 10/19/09 - 6:42 pm

Channel 4 reports the site took down a design for a jack-o-lantern with a three-foot-high flame after an aghast state fire marshal's office complained. The Globe said it agreed to delete the flaming pumpkin even though it "added a warning to only attempt it outdoors, away from flammable materials, and with a fire extinguisher at hand."

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