More Newspapers to Charge for Online Content

Do you still pick up the paper in the morning? Read the headlines while sipping your morning coffee? Or do you scroll through the news on your ipad or blackberry on your way into the office? Well if you’re like a lot of people these days then you probably get your news online. Once for free [...]

FTC Imposes New Guidelines for Review-Bloggers

The Federal Trade Commission has implemented new guidelines that require full disclosure from bloggers in regard to any product they review that was received for free. These guidelines are a web 2.0 enhancement of their 30 year old rules for the use of testimonials in advertising. The guidelines address an issue some folks have with the credibility of bloggers [...]

My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe

Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I [...]

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Wanted: New Internet Homepage

Wanted: New Internet Homepage For years my browser’s homepage has been http://www.boston.com/. Well not any more after reading this article The Boston Globe will soon begin charging for its website, publisher P. Steven Ainsley told the paper’s union bosses. What will I do? Where will I find my news? (insert sarcasm here) I used to get [...]

Really?!?

I went to Boston.com a minute ago to see this:   The biggest article on the home page of the newspaper’s website is about Facebook Icons? BFD! Is there nothing else going on it the world today? What icon should the social networking giant use to indicate that the user has gone through a divorce? [...]

Where are the jobs at?

OH NO! Another one bites the dust. NY Times reports that Reader’s Digest Association is now laying off nearly 300 people. This is a national example of what we are seeing locally. Two weeks ago, The Boston Globe announced a layoff, this following the Boston Herald who had a round of job cuts last June. [...]

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