Left in Lowell appeared to go on radio silence for the last five or so days as I spent most of my spare blogging time working to get all the video clips of the May 23rd Chelmsford Iraq/foreign policy debate online. Well, I may be no video … [Read more...]
Finegold Confirms for Saturday’s Lowell Media Forum
Barry Finegold has confirmed his attendence at Saturday's 3PM blogger Q&A at UMass Lowell, a part of the New England News Forum one-day media and educational conference.Finegold joins Jamie Eldridge and Eileen Donoghue for this first … [Read more...]
Media Forum in Lowell April 7
There will be a one-day gathering of educators, students, journalists, bloggers and other media junkies at the one-day media conference, The New(s) England Revolution: From Politics to Courtroom to Classroom. Topics range from the place of … [Read more...]
Feeding the Trolls
Recently, we've had a bit of a kerfuffle over a troll comment, left by a new BMG user who's been trolling a lot of posts. We haven't had a lot of trolling on Blue Mass Group, and as a community we seem to be quite vulnerable to it: … [Read more...]
BMG lives on!
The mix of local, state and national politics is great with some occasional international flavor, humor [http://www.bluemassg...] and various other categories. Wouldn't it be fun to have a bloggothemonth? Criteria could be … [Read more...]
The big stage
Get meta. I think the comment system is unfair to long-time users. I want the comments to be alphabetical. What is blogging anyway? Is it an integral part of the process, a part of integrating the process, or … [Read more...]
What have you done today to make you feel grateful?
As a lifelong MA resident (hey, Christy me, too!), a parent and adult-child of elderly parents, I decided to vote for Deval two days before the primary. My epiphany went something like this: I realized that Reilly was my parents (D), … [Read more...]
New Blog
The Valley Advocate has a new web page, along with blogs. I'll be writing one of them, called "This Side of Mount Tom." Mount Tom is a ridge that runs between Holyoke and Easthampton that divides what we think of as the upper Pioneer Valley … [Read more...]
Anyone from Swampscott?
Here's my idea:I want something that anyone from Swampscott can participate in, so we can get news from all corners of the town. There are things I know about the town that a 64 year old wouldn't, there are things a 17 year old would know … [Read more...]
A Berkshire Slant on the Convention
I've posted our local Convention results and a link to another Beagle article about blogging. … [Read more...]