tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post5762694025024835544..comments2024-03-28T07:29:14.978-04:00Comments on BSO: The Internet Revolution 2008Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10900475514170268904noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-35499854942435815202008-04-03T00:47:00.000-04:002008-04-03T00:47:00.000-04:00You did it again, Tom. You took a multi layered, c...You did it again, Tom. You took a multi layered, complex topic like the rise of the internet (and fall of print media), and packaged it for easy consumption and understanding. No one on the net does that better.<BR/><BR/>One thing though; I still like reading the newspaper in my hands. Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I'd really hate to see it go. I'll probably keep buying them, as long as they keep printing them...Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16265475275476389339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-32960370426814363212008-04-02T22:14:00.000-04:002008-04-02T22:14:00.000-04:00Well, she never did post the last night of Town Me...Well, she never did post the last night of Town Meeting (not that it was all that interesting) on her TM Experience blog and her Inamherst site changes about as often as the seasons in New England.<BR/><BR/>Why would her blogs have to change form when she gets elected? It's not like she gets paid for them OR for being an elected member of the illustrious Select board in the Peoples Republic of AmherstLarry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-87524600964668296682008-04-02T21:49:00.000-04:002008-04-02T21:49:00.000-04:00Stephanie's town meeting blog appears to be dead b...Stephanie's town meeting blog appears to be dead because town meeting isn't meeting right now. She has also written about how her blogs would have to change form if she were to get elected, so we'll see how that turns out...Elihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05327437341980309987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-80257314773244120982008-04-02T20:08:00.000-04:002008-04-02T20:08:00.000-04:00Yeah, let’s hope the Big Shots that own the Spring...Yeah, let’s hope the Big Shots that own the Springfield Republican can find a way to keep Local Buzz buzzing along. With only a cyber footprint it most certainly has a cheaper overhead than all that messy printing and distributing of heavy material that comes from trees Amherst folks so love to hug.<BR/><BR/>The Net was born out of Doomsday and has grown into the communication revolution that has ushered us into the 21’centtury. As the Dinosaurs discovered a few million years ago, adapt or die (or try to avoid those damn meteors)<BR/><BR/>Speaking of Doomsday, my very first notification on THAT awful morning came via an AOL Instant Message, something I usually declined.<BR/><BR/>I had just posted a flaming message to the Gazettenet forum (that at the time was way more popular than the Masslive Amherst forum) about the ‘Only in Amherst’ anti-flag events from the Select Board meeting the night before. <BR/><BR/>I accepted the call (AOL used to open a pop up in your top left corner of the screen saying “Do you wish to accept this I.M. from so and so) because I knew he lived in Boston and thought—since the Select board meeting had made the AP wire in the pre dawn hours of 9/11--that it had to do with little old Amherst.<BR/><BR/>He sent the text message “Are you near a TV?” I responded, “Flags in Amherst?” No he came back instantly “A plane impaled the North Tower of the World Trade Center”. <BR/><BR/>I responded “Holy shit!” Again he came back: “Make that two--another one just hit the South Tower.” I said, “I gotta go”. Only then did I speed home to turn on the TV and see those searing images. My God!<BR/><BR/>Fast forward and look at Gazettenet now. They have been in cyberspace forever in Internet time (over ten years) but this new major revision is a disaster. They launched on February 20 and claimed the beta version would be fully in place within a week and here we are almost six weeks later and they still rely on the previous build.<BR/><BR/>The blogs are a joke. Chief editor Foudy posted once on Feb 20 and has not updated since. <BR/><BR/>Newspapers of New England recently purchased The Gazette and Valley Advocate and the new publisher Aaron Julien (who married the President’s daughter) has no journalism experience whatsoever. Unfortunately for me he moved to Amherst (like a lot of carpetbaggers) and his wife has been politically active in ACE the pro-education group that doesn’t know how to spell. <BR/><BR/>The Gazette spent millions installing a new color printer and constructing a giganormous (ugly as Hell) building to keep it out of the rain in their headquarters in Hamp and they recently acquired a subsidy from the taxpayers in the form of a $630,000 state tax credit.<BR/><BR/>And not so surprisingly the Amherst Bulletin (also under the control of pretty-boy Julien) at the 11’th hour endorsed Stein and O’Keeffe just when their campaigns were starting to panic. <BR/><BR/>So yeah, in light of that last second meddling by the Bricks-and- Mortar Powers That Be, not so surprising that Hwei-Ling Greeney lost (although that pose with Kerry probably didn’t help…Yikes)Larry Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614645831526190536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-10188943518955196292008-04-02T19:22:00.000-04:002008-04-02T19:22:00.000-04:00Very interesting, good job Tom!Very interesting, good job Tom!sodafixerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09731653984709675068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023556716422736970.post-84668748248275382352008-04-02T17:47:00.000-04:002008-04-02T17:47:00.000-04:00Your history of Internet communications is so eleg...Your history of Internet communications is so elegant.Mary E.Careyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13038834344347616519noreply@blogger.com