Blogger Chuck Tanowitz issues a call to action: He's calling on folks to do a little man-in-the-street interviewing to see how Newton residents really feel about the progress at Newton North High School, following City Hall's tut-tutting over Tab and blog coverage of the work. ... More ...

The Boston Foodie actually puts it a bit more bluntly: Chowhound sucks: Call it a rant but the entire dinner conversation tonight revolved around how plebe the site is and the way it is dominated by blowhards, people who get weird jollies stuffing anything but their cranium, dollar store shoppers who "review" the latest beef jerky and, well, basically drunks. ... ... More ...

Chuck Tanowitz talks to the Newton mayor's flack (yes, of course, the mayor of Newton has a PR person - you can't imagine the crush of press calls the mayor of the Garden City gets) about the flap over letting the local weekly take pictures of the under-construction Newton North High School: ... Solomon said that he would only change his stance when he felt public sentiment shift. While the writers on various blogs have been rather outspoken on the topic, Solomon laughed on the idea that these o... More ...

The Lit Drop, written by Dorchester Reporter and State House News Service reporters Gintautas Dumcius and Mike Deehan, will provide daily coverage of this year's mayoral and city-council elections. Full disclosure: I do some work for the Dorchester Reporter and, in fact, set the blog up - and you might even see my name on some posts there. ... More ...

Whoever's behind this site really, really, really hates Tom Menino. Still, it's interesting looking at a site calling for "an open and honest dialogue" on the issues facing Boston when its operators go out of their way to hide their identities: Administrative Contact: Private, Registration Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States. Via Jimbo. ... More ...

Blue Mass. Group is going for it. ... More ...

We hear from a reliable source that a couple of gossip gals at a certain scrappy tabloid got caught passing off a two-year-old photo of the Celtics dancers as their own when it was really taken by a local blogger - who was never asked if that was OK. File under: Tsk. ... More ...

The Boston Blogs Network is a collaborative effort of a group of Boston-area blogs to promote each other and make a bit of money. If you're local and you write about life in the area, chances are you qualify for membership. Read some more about us and, if you're interested, drop me a line (if you've already done so, and never heard back from me, please write again - I wasn't ignoring you, I was being stupid and not backing up e-mail to prepare for the computer disaster I usually manage to cause... More ...

Blue Mass. Group will interview Boston mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty on Tuesday, June 2, at 10:30 a.m. You can suggest questions at the link. Read more ... More ...

Crazy Massachusetts Pensions is a new blog devoted to, well, you can probably guess. ... More ...

BPDNews is offline because of "the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit." Maybe now would be a good time to consider moving the site to a server actually run by the city instead of some discount ISP? Surely somebody in the city IT department knows how to set up and manage a Web server, no? In the meantime, there's always Boston Police District A-7, although they only cover East Boston. ... More ...

Last month, Candelaria Silva decried what she called the Black-on-Black crime of the eradication of Black cultural businesses and institutions in Boston. She ended by fretting about the fate of the Bay State Banner, whose owner has a white wife. Last night, Silva posted an apology: ... The words I wrote have been running through my mind again and again. If I was the Black wife of a White business owner and someone wrote about what a shame it would be if the business were to fall in my hands bec... More ...

A Magno Frail Whale Wade Roush provides the blow by blow of a brewing Twitterwar involving a couple of Cambridge social-media startups. Fortunately, the war is over and they're best buds again, because you know how devastating those things can be. Meanwhile, in other local Twitter news, CC Chapman was bemused this morning to discover he is part of the Boston Twitterati, at least as judged by the Globe, which surely must know, right? Wrong, according to fellow nouveau Twitteratus Steve Garfield, ... More ...

Joel Brown sings the praises of the new ArtsBoston site: ... We live in interesting times, and a lot of new solutions are needed. ArtsBoston.org looks like one. Ed tangled-Web note: Joel is a member of the Boston Blogs ad network and BosTix is one of our advertisers. ... More ...

Chris Monks manages to get word out that his blog has been captured by Somali pirates: ...Pirates eating all my food and teasing cat. ... More ...

While Boston philanthropists meet behind closed doors to try to figure out an answer to the Globe crisis, a group of bloggers, organized by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CEO Paul Levy, want to see if they and their readers can come up with ways of their own to save the paper. More than 20 blogs in the Boston area are today starting a Globe "blog rally" - discussions on their sites about how to keep the Globe going, no matter what its corporate overlords in Manhattan say: ... We view the G... More ...

The New England First Amendment Coalition and Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc are sponsoring a daylong seminar on investigative reporting on May 1 at the Globe - it's free ($10 for an optional box lunch) and open to everyone, even bloggers. Details. Read more ... More ...

Tom LeCompte recently became a Boston cab driver. He's blogging the experience: ... Then, from the back, I heard bodies shifting in the seat, the sounds of murmuring and kissing, of clothes being pulled at and unbuttoned. I glanced up at my rearview mirror, but saw nothing. They were clearly taking advantage of the rear seat couch. "Say it," she whispered. "Huh?" "Say it," she repeated, followed by the sounds of more kissing and some slurping noises. "Never," she said. "Never ever leave me." The... More ...

This Is Harvard, by an Allstonian who's begun chronicling what happens to a neighborhood full of empty buildings - such as the arrival of squatters at the abandoned Kmart. Via Harry Mattison. ... More ...

This week on Radio Boston, on WBUR, we're taking a look at the changing face of local news and information, and we'll feature as a guest, Adam Gaffin from Universal Hub. We're interested in how people stay informed about their communities, and obviously this website is one of those ways. How do you stay informed? Let us know ahead of time by going to www.radioboston.org, and commenting online. ... More ...