Dan Kennedy relays the news that Jon Keller, the Mikey of Boston punditry (he doesn't like anything, at least, judging by his morning denunciations on WBZ-AM), will start blogging on Monday, somewhere here. He'll be blogging several times a day, the station says.

Things that Suck decrees that one thing that sucks is local newscasts pimping for shows on their networks:

No more medialog_2. Now Mark's at thephoenix.com/medialog. First post: Optimism that the revival of Jack Williams at Channel 4 means Big Personalities are back at local anchordesks (hmm, does this mean somebody will be unfreezing Tom Ellis?).

This morning on 'BZ, Jon Keller said only a few kids came to his house for Halloween. He concluded from this that kids today are too fat and lazy to leave their Gameboys to do something fun like trick or treat.

Our neighborhood was full of trick-or-treaters (as it is pretty much every year). Maybe, Jon, the kids in your neighborhood were terrified you'd explode on your doorstep in a blinding flash of hot, gaseous death and stayed away.

Makes as much sense as your explanation.

For a medium that thrives on visuals and graphics, local television stations have sure done a miserable job on the Web.

Take Channel 5 (please!). The site is packed with information, and Channel 5 does a great job of quickly posting breaking news, but the home page looks like a head-on collision between two paint trucks and should come with a bottle of extra-strength asipirin. Channel 25? Could somebody tell them frames are so 1997? Now, to be fair, this is hardly unique to Boston - local-TV sites across the country are mediocre at best (in fact, many of them use the same godawful toolbar and throw-everything-on-the-wall design as Channel 5). But still: Ick.

So it's amazing to see the new cbs4boston.com.