The Daily Worcesteria reports on a kerfuffle over which Worcester (ours or England's) should be listed first on Wikipedia. If it's any consolation, when you search for "Wormtown" on Wikipedia, the first thing listed is city nicknames in Massachusetts.
Some favorite sites
- A Life's Work
- Brainiac - Ideas from academia
- CommonWealth magazine
- Extra Criticum
- Frying Pan
- Joe. My. God.
- Media Nation
- mennonno sapiens - one giant leap for mankind
- New England Folklore
- Phlog (Boston Phoenix)
- strange maps
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Talking Politics
- The Classic TV History Blog
- The House Next Door
- TV Club - The A.V. Club
- TV Guidance (Jaime Weinman)
- Universal Hub | All Boston, all the time
- Viewer Discretion - The Boston Globe
Recent Posts
- Unless Im in a suit,
- The Herald's hack obsession
- Massachusetts takes the president down a peg
- Scott Brown, the primal scream, and the nuclear option
- Brown takes lead, universal health care takes a dive
- Coakley's impression on one P-town/DC correspondent
- Still worrying about shrillness
- Scott Brown as Goliath killer?
- Politics not his strong suit?
- Judge rules against Catholic college's plans for retirement community
Television
- How has the culture of TV (and TV-watching) changed? (The A.V. Club)
- The secret behind TV's obnoxious male leads (Matt Zoller Seitz)
- In Defense of the Multi-Camera Sitcom (Jaime Weinman)
- David Brent helps scientists understand why grandparents can be embarrassing
- A Very Special Episode (The A.V. Club)
- Harry's Law (actually about TV's bizarre ratings system) (Todd VanDerWerff)
- Undercover Black Man: Thoughts on theme
- 22 TV Opening-Credit Sequences That Fit Their Shows Perfectly (A.V. Club)
- South Dakota Dark
- What's Alan Watching?
Favorite places
- Alan Ilagan
- Chicago Metblogs
- Gay Village, Montreal: Un monde, Un village
- Greenwich Village Daily Photo
- Magog & Lake Memphremagog
- Maine Public Broadcasting Network
- montreal city weblog
- New Orleans: Best Of New Orleans Blog
- New York City Metblogs
- Providence Daily Dose
- Provincetown Banner
- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Online
- Roanoke Times
- Boston: Shopping Days In Retro Boston
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Washington D.C. Metblogs
- Washington Heights & Inwood Online
Music
Of note elsewhere
- A History of Tipping (The Smart Set)
- Bars without TVs in Boston (Universal Hub)
- Hey Everybody, Let's All Go To The Beach And Complain
- Le Drive Storrow
- Dogs smarter than cats, study claims
- Gene Weingarten on web comments: Sirloin steak with a side of maggots
- How facts backfire - The Boston Globe
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook (Cory Doctorow, 2007)
- Metal detecting: The world's worst hobby (Emily Yoffe, Slate Magazine)
- Montreal's condoplexes (Christopher DeWolf, Urban Photo)
- No coverage is a chronic condition (Clif Garboden, The Boston Globe)
- Railway car churches
- So You Love Punctuation? Write a Letter to Your Favorite Mark
- The best vacation ever - The Boston Globe
- The Coolest Locksmith Shop in New York City (Scouting NY)
- The Dogs Who Ride Trains
- The Other Detroit (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic)
- Walking in Boston (mennonno sapiens)
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Notable work
- MassINC's Middle Class Index
- "Next stop: Downtown Noshing" (Boston Globe)
- "Diversity density" in Boston and elsewhere (Boston Globe Ideas)
- A typology of stupid sitcom characters
- Where were Obama's biggest gains for the Democrats in 2008?
- Everywhere an outlier: What each state does best in presidential politics
- I hate TV (Salon.com)
- David Sedaris gets naked
- Demographics and political destiny - The Boston Globe
- 10 regions of Massachusetts politics: How Deval Patrick won
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