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Spacebook: 13 Million US Facebookers Don’t Use Privacy Controls

A Consumer Reports investigation reveals that a fair chunk of Facebookniks are pretty casual about protecting their privacy. Via the Boston Globe: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users do not use, or are not aware of, the site’s privacy controls, according to a … Continue reading →

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Dear WGBH: This. Totally. Blows.

At 12:15 Monday morning, as is our wont, the hardworking staff repaired to the Global Worldwide Headquarters to do a little ruminating and construing, as is also our wont. And, as usual, we flipped on the radio to 89.7 FM, … Continue reading →

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Boston Globe Slowbituaries ( Stephen Bankuti Edition)

Hard on the heels of our last installment of this regular feature, the Sunday Boston Globe featured this obit: Stephen Bankuti, 78; Sudbury soccer coach fought in Hungarian resistance As a boy in Hungary, Stephen Bankuti defused land mines in … Continue reading →

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More Loving Memories Of Joseph Anthony Welteroth, U.S. Navy

Turns out the sons (Joseph, Michael, Gregory and Jacob) of World War II Pacific theater seaman/poet Joseph Anthony Welteroth didn’t just run six-figures’ worth of full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, as the hardworking staff … Continue reading →

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Drew Pinsky Did Stealth Doctoring For Glaxo

This past week the U.S. Justice Department reached a “$3 billion criminal and civil settlement with Glaxo over illegal drug marketing and other matters,” the Wall Street Journal reported. ‘Dr. Drew’ Was Paid by Glaxo Radio Host Extolled Virtues of Antidepressant … Continue reading →

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Boston Globe Slowbituaries (Ed Corsetti Edition)

From Saturday’s Boston Globe: Ed Corsetti, 87; reporter cut teeth covering Brink’s robbery in Boston Ed Corsetti was relatively unseasoned when he was assigned to cover what would become one of the biggest stories of his newspaper career: the 1950 … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging reThink Ink At The BPL

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Boston Public Library to catch reThink Ink: 25 Years at Mixit Print Studio, and, boy, it was swell. From the Mixit Print Studio website (the BPL site is inexplicably down): “By … Continue reading →

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Let The Whatever Billion Dollar Rumpus Begin!

From our Housekeeping desk Saturday’s Boston Globe featured a sharp front-page piece on the presidential campaigns’ stepped-up digital efforts this time around: Spending on online advertising could exceed $160 million during the 2012 election cycle, up from the $22 million … Continue reading →

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Steve Schwartz Did NOT Miss His Last WGBH Radio Show

Last Friday the hardworking staff worried that Steve Schwartz might be aced out of his final WGBH Jazz from Studio Four show. He was not. And Steve produced a sweet swan song. Sometime around 10 pm he said something like … Continue reading →

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Did You Ever Want To Talk To Your 12-Year-Old Self?

This guy did (via Mediaite):   That is one freaky – and fabulous – video.

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