Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'theinternet'
August 15, 2008
After a group of thugs allegedly assaulted a man in Davis Square, he posted the whole thing on the davis_square Livejournal group. The cops couldn't help him out, but maybe the internet can. LJers are sharpening their pitchforks and giving legal advice. At the very least, prospects look grim for a cashier at the Davis Square Tedeschi's, who may have accepted a bribe from the thug crew.......
Continue Reading "Citizen Policing: Internet Style"April 30, 2008
ROFLCon invaded Cambridge over the weekend, storming MIT's lecture halls and colonizing the bars of Central Square with novelty t-shirts. Bostonist knows that the Internet is always talking to itself, about itself, but it was surreal to be in the room while that was happening. Case in point: this guy sat in front of us during a web comics panel, watching the live webcast and browsing Flickr images of the very talk that he......
Continue Reading "Bostonist Went To ROFLCon And All We Got Was This Brawndo Hangover"April 25, 2008
Brad Neely, I Can Has Cheezburger, Red vs. Blue, ROFLCon, Stuff White People Like, the Internet...
Continue Reading "Rolling on the Floor Laughing Convention"January 17, 2006
Bostonist prefers the tried and true method of shaming people into doing the work they’ve promised. That was our sole intention in calling out Cameron Marlow publicly on not sharing his Weblog Survey data with us (well, us and the rest of the ‘net). It was an idea we’d picked up from Xian. We posed some questions and the seeming lack of substantive response was noted as it quickly made way to other local channels.......
Continue Reading "Weblog Survey Data Redux"January 13, 2006
Bostonist loves the Inside Track ladies at the Herald. They’ve got their finger on the tiny trickle of celebrity and athlete gossip coming from the Hub. As was pointed out earlier this year, they were the only ones who could keep track of The Departed. But this morning they’re knocking on the Internet and Bosonist’s “Weather or Not” man Todd Gross. Set to make an appearance this morning on WAAF, before Todd went live, the......
Continue Reading "Inside Tracking the Weatherman"