Millie Garfield will be on ABC news with Charlie Gibson tonight, son Steve reports (and yes, Steve was there during the interview, videoing the camera crew; look for a "making of the report" report). Read more ... More ...

A couple of years ago, Jenny Frazier came up with the idea of Boston Blogtoberfest, an annual get-together for local bloggers. Being a graphic designer, she also came up with a logo to go with the event - and the concern she set up to promote other blog events. And now it looks like Brown Brothers Harriman & Co has ripped off her design for some T-shirts. Granted, it's for a good cause (a charity road race tomorrow), but sheesh, don't big companies have lawyers to check stuff like this? ... ... More ...

Susan's Story is a blog about a patient who traveled a long way to get to a local hospital: This is the story of Susan Nabukenya. Susan is a 14-year-old Ugandan girl who just arrived to Boston for life-saving plastic surgery at Boston Shriners. Susan was burned from her chest to her toes when she stepped too close to a cooking fire and her kerosene-stained dress ignited. She has lived with burn contractures and open wounds for four years and was forced to drop out of school. She had lost all ho... More ...

Get a cocktail and see Shear Madness for free this Thursday (6/19), by agreeing to post about it (good, bad or indifferent). If interested, write shearblog@gmail.com (first 10 bloggers get in). Conflict of interest note: We've done business with the play's ad agency. ... More ...

By now, everyone's heard that Governor Patrick's daughter is a n out and proud lesbian. Good (or planned?) timing with the Boston Pride festivities this weekend. There's a full article on Towleroad, one of my favorite bloggers out there. Read more ... More ...

The blog-hating columnist has company in Lincoln-Sudbury School Superintendent John Ritchie, who warned graduating seniors last night not to "sink to the levels" of dangerous, foul-mouthed bloggers. Ritchie made the admonishment despite admitting that: I never - believe or not — read any of these blogs and never will. But I have been informed of what is said: the tenor, the tone, the message. Now, in that particular case, he's referring specifically to the comments Wicked Local sites allow o... More ...

Three things that reinforce my decision to live in the Dorchester community: Dot2Dot Cafe ( I’ve been waiting for a cafe to open up in Dorchester since I moved here three years ago); DotOut at the Dorchester Day Parade; and the Revitalization of Dorchester Ave. ... More ...

Some drive around in their Corvettes. ... More ...

Bostonist, meet Thrillist, which is starting up a sort of drinking Boston man's version of Daily Candy, only targeted at guys. Oh, did I mention it's aimed at guys? Specifically, the sort of guys who leave their underwear hanging on their chairs before going out for a night of debauchery - after first making the tough decision of which razor to use. The press release says it'll be written by Kevin Alexander, who has tackled "hard hitting stories" such as Bronson Arroyo's preference for college w... More ...

This has to be some sort of a first. The boston.com Political Intelligence blog has a snarky post about wannabe Senate candidate Jim Ogonowski's embarrassing failure to file, by today's deadline, enough signatures to qualify for the Republican primary. (He was 300 30 short of the required 10,000.) Who posts the first comment? Why Ogonowski himself: Despite what you may have read, I am proud to tell you that I will be turning in more than the required 10,000 certified signatures to get on the ba... More ...

Why should reporters (and doctors) have all the fun? Air One, which begins direct flights between Boston and Milan this month, is hosting a blogger-only reception in, of course, the North End: June 12, 6-9 p.m. at Lucca. Also on hand: free hors d'oeuvres and somebody to give you an Italian lesson. Sign up on Facebook here or drop Carla Dabis a line: carla.dabis at edelman.com (obviously, change that to actually work). And, yes, bloggers only. Also, space is limited, so if this is the sort of thi... More ...

The Globe quotes a comment on U-Hub in an article on the new BPD "Rumbler" noisemaker. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/05/19/police_and_drivers_get_ready_for_rumblers/ ... More ...

Not sure of the hows or whys, but it seems all the RSS feeds for my fave local blogs hosted on WordPress.com have been replaced with mutant self-congratulatory RSS feeds leading to the same blog posts about WordPress.com itself. Gah! I get my feeds via Newsgator, so I'm not sure if the problem is with them or WordPress. Anybody else who doesn't use Newsgator notice this? ... More ...

It's always most cool to put faces with the blogs you've been reading for months or even years - let alone catching up with some folks you've known for awhile. Last night, about a dozen of us blogger types, from as far away as Dedham and Dorchester met up at Doyle's Cafe basically just to say hi. Alyssa lists some of the folks and posts photos (including one of me taking a picture of her). Mike Ball proved far more organized than me - he brought name tags (and pens, even). Even the Drew Gilpin ... More ...

Mother Brook is a blog about the country's oldest canal, which connects the Charles and Neponset rivers via Dedham and Hyde Park. ... More ...

This is for the bloggers in the audience; everybody else can safely ignore! Read more ... More ...

Yes, you can pay somebody to write your blog for you. ... More ...

Live in Roslindale or Jamaica Plain (or even just in a neighborhood that borders one of them)? Meet your fellow neighborhood bloggers for a beer: Wednesday, May 14th, starting at 7 p.m. in the back room (yes, the famous back room) at Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington St. in JP (map). ... More ...

Ken George, new media honcho at WBUR, is having a bit of trouble coming up with a name for his new blog. Come up with a good name and a This American Life T-shirt (in Chinese) is all yours. ... More ...

Dare to complain about how Howie Carr called in a column about how awful the Marathon is? You'll do it on your own site, the Herald tells Tai Irwin, scrubbing its own Web pages clean of the former 'FNX jock's Tai-Rade blog (his blog URL now only brings up "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria"). Free Republic, of all places, has a copy of the offending post, which, OK, takes a dig or two at the Herald ("purchased by over a dozen Bostonians at newsstands"). Scroll down a screen or so. Via Bosto... More ...