Steve Garfield took this funny picture of me at the Boston Media Makers meeting yesterday.
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.
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:
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 I’m proud of the way the interview came out.
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. To do a little better, I went to someone who could give us the real deal.
