I’m Officially an O’Reilly Blogger
Last week, I was invited to join the O’Reilly Digital Media blog, and today I got all set up. I still need the login info to post, but I’m officially in their system.
Archive for March, 2007
Boston Behind the Scenes Featured On Frommer’s Website
I was checking my website stats for Boston Behind the Scenes, and low-and-behold there were a ton of hits coming from the Frommer’s travel website! They did a story called Download This: Homegrown Podcast Tours Give You a Local’s Look on Thursday, and guess who is first on the list:
Escalator Skiier Makes International News
Here’s the article and the video: (This was mainly a YouTube embedding test)
Astronaut to Run the Boston Marathon From Space
American astronaut Sunita Williams will run 26.2 miles on a treadmill on Patriots’ Day (April 16th for those of you outside of Massachusetts) while runners on the ground will compete in the 111th Boston Marathon, according this New Scientist article: She says she is doing it to motivate children to be fit. “I encourage kids [...]
Don’t Use the “E-Word”
I found this article on the word evolution last month, and today I finally tracked one of the researchers down for the phone interview below (for release on the Museum’s podcast tomorrow). The paper is about the use of the “E-Word” in scientific articles and popular news stories. I found the topic very interesting, and [...]
BostonNOW Newspaper to Launch on April 17th
BostonNOW is a new free daily launching in a few weeks. The paper will compete with the Metro as a mass-circulation paper on the streets and on the T. While this is an interesting development in the stuff-you-can-do-instead-of-interacting- with-others-in-public department, it is more interesting in that you will actually have an opportunity to interact with [...]
Boston Accent on Boston Behind the Scenes
I recorded a new Boston Behind the Scenes yesterday with a linguist from BU talking about the Boston accent: It’s a dialect I hear every day, but almost all most people know about it is encapsulated in the phrase “Let’s pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd,” but that isn’t really the way people talk here. [...]
Nemesis Defeated
But I don’t know if I cheated in figuring out the answer… Update: I looked up the “real” answer, and I still don’t know if I cheated. I didn’t solve it the way you are supposed to, but I don’t like the way you are supposed to solve it. My way is more elegant, though [...]
Sauce on a North End Sidewalk: An Insult, a Threat, or an Accident?
This morning, I found this smashed jar of Ragu Tomato, Basil & Italian Cheese pasta sauce on the sidewalk. It was right in front of the entrance to a popular Italian restaurant. Someone could just have dropped it, but this being the North End, I wonder if it may have been done purposely as a [...]
“Up the Big Set of Stairs”
I’m out at Boston College today to do an interview for Boston Behind the Scenes. After I got off the T, I asked a student where the building I needed to go to was, and she started her direction with “Go around this corner and up the big set of stairs…” For those of you [...]
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