Comments on: IDEA! Boston ‘T’ Blog

By: Nedward

Nedward — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:52:31 +0000

SO, I noticed this Slate article – http://slate.msn.com/id/2085046/… any awesome database coders out there? want to team up?

By: Dawn Gray-Simon

Dawn Gray-Simon — Sat, 01 Mar 2003 17:50:43 +0000

Would you be kind enough to define the difference between a “Bostonite” and a “Bostonian” for me. Thank you in advance.

By: nedward

nedward — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:49:49 +0000

i know. it is sooooo tempting. but i’m working on a boston events guide now…

i can’t imagine why i’d add myself to a stop in NYC… ya know?

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:48:54 +0000

I found your site when googling for exactly what you’re debating – a boston blogger map. One thing that hasn’t been said about the NYC bloggers is that you don’t actually have to reside in NYC; you just have to consider yourself a “New Yorker” and then map yourself to a stop that resonates with you; it doesn’t have to be your actual RL abode. I am a former Bostonian now living in NYC and was hoping there was something with the same setup.

By: nedward

nedward — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:29:47 +0000

you know what? I don’t know why!

I just thought it would be a good “community” type thing to bring to Boston… There seem to be a ton of “bloggers” in the Boston-area… but I don’t seem to read any.

Maybe I just need to move to NYC? You think? Oh, and if anyone is interested in doing this, then talk to me!.

By: ?

Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:11:40 +0000

why would anyone take up such a daunting task of massholizing NYCbloggers.com?

There’s no money in it…. or is there?

By: ned

ned — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:14:03 +0000

well, You Don’t, I think you might be suprised. Obviously there are a lot of subway stops in NYC, and not every one has a blogger listed.

I don’t see why that’s uninteresting… if anything, it would put your blog on the map.

sorry for the pun.

By: You don't know me but...

You don't know me but... — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:42:16 +0000

So, my comments about T stop are merely based on numbers. While Central Square and a few other stops will, I’m sure, be bursting with locals – I’m at Ashmont, on the red line, and question how many people from my T stop are blog-obsessed.

By: Adam Gaffin

Adam Gaffin — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:38:45 +0000

When I started collecting blog URLs for Boston Online, I thought the T idea would be wicked cool – that NYC bloggers site is very nice. Then I realized I’d actually have to ask most people what stop they’re near – oh, the work :-).

But there were a couple of other reasons I decided against it. One is that Boston itself is really small, so you’d have to have all the commuter lines for all those “Bostonians” who really live in Natick or wherever (plus, what do you do about people like me: I live in Boston, but the closest station to me is actually the Hyde Park commuter-rail stop, not a subway station). Also, the definition of a “Bostonian” is a lot more fluid than a “New Yorker,” we don’t really have the sort of cultural (and geographic) boundaries that separate “us” from the rest of the universe (well, 128 or 495 maybe…).

More important, for the most part, what does knowing where a blogger is really get you? With a few exceptions, exactly where a blogger lives around here doesn’t really seem to matter in terms of what he or she writes (Surface City writes a lot about South Boston, which is cool, but other than that?). So I’ve started trying to categorize bloggers by topic, which I realize introduces its own problems, since most people seem to write about lots of things – still, there are some definite “politics” blogs, even some religious blogs (all Catholic, as far as I’ve been able to find so far.

Still, if you do want some help, I could, at a minimum, get you the Boston Online blog listings in an Excel file (well, CSV).

By: the Kate!

the Kate! — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 02:43:52 +0000

reenhead.com, home of the DC blog site listing, is run by my friend Maureen. Small world, eh?

By: nedward

nedward — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:52:43 +0000

that’s you Don, from work Don? How are ya?

By: nedward

nedward — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:50:39 +0000

Thanks all of you for your input…

You don’t know me but, why wouldn’t it work to use the subway map? I have a real preference for urban living and public transport…. also, it’s VISUAL. it’s taking a symbol (map) that we see every day, and adding a context to it… i mean, i look at stops on the orange line, and i’m like… WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT? i have no real idea.

starting something like this would add a spatial element to boston blogging.

Don, I like the DC site very much. I’m going to email them.

Jason, i probably have bumped into you there. i’m a bit of a wallflower in there though. get my coffee, sit, read paper, exit.

i’ve only been in Central since september… i used to live on the other side of the river, but i prefer it here.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:16:49 +0000

I think this is a good idea, especially appealing to those of us who have lived at our stop (Central in my case) for years.

I live 2 minutes from the 1369; I’ve probably seen you there as I picked up my double-tall latte….

By: Don

Don — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 17:04:34 +0000

Washington, D.C. has a similar site which may be more in line with what you are thinking… DC Bloggers.

By: You don't know me but...

You don't know me but... — Fri, 29 Nov 2002 01:10:35 +0000

I think it would be a good idea, but Boston’s a little too small for it. Rather, it would have to be organized by actual city, major surrounding cities (Cambridge, Quincy, etc), and then general suburb areas…

oh, and nice blog:)