ad, graffiti… what’s the difference?

By Candice Novak
Answer: The difference is obviously whose paying for that space in the public eye. In lay terms, money. But in the last few weeks there has been a lot of push-back to renew the debate.
In the last few weeks there has been a flurry of activity around the question of advertising’s role in [...]

Gaffin “goes boom” with UniversalHub

Boston blogging extraordinaire Adam Gaffin started the now-omnipresent Universal Hub as a way to connect the writers and photographers of the Hub. Now the project has grown into a regular source for news not covered by the big media of the area and a destination for many bloggers. Now he has about 3,500 to [...]

Breaking the database wide open

Matt Carroll of the Boston Globe was so kind as to explain to us on Monday that there is really nothing to database journalism — a growing branch of computer assisted reporting — and that we could seal our worth in the newsroom with some knowledge of how to ruffle through columns and rows. It’s [...]