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A local interior design firm is looking for a blog intern. Among the duties:

... Assist in reading through design magazines, Boston Globe Magazine, and other Boston Globe columns to flag articles of interest for comment in blog. ...

Hmm, I wonder if the company's name is Kramerica?

On Onepotmeal, Steve observes:

The funniest thing about blogging is that each successive wave of new bloggers writes about making the exact same discoveries and observations regarding the medium, assuming themselves to be the first.

I'm amazed no one noticed that before me.

New England Podcasting is a blog for and by local podcasters.

NECN has set up a blog for folks who might have something to offer to people flooded out by the recent rains.

Via Sisu.

Steve Garfield reports on a Globe reporter covering a videoblogger meeting he was at. Among other things, she just started asking him questions without identifying herself first. Best part, though, was what happened when he tried to take a picture of her taking a picture of them.

Over at Boston Sports Media Watch, Bruce Allen summarizes what he's learned about the local sports media in the four year's he's been following them. Among his observations: Local sports radio panders to idiots and Bob Ryan is a glorious exception to the rule that local sports writers are petty and thin skinned - especially his colleague, the Curly-Haired Boyfriend:

... [Shaughnessy] emailed me, demanding that I call him, so, not knowing any better at the time, I called. His first words to me were "Did I sleep with your wife or something?" the conversation went downhill from there, and I believe it ended up with him insulting me and hanging up the phone. Since then, I vowed never to talk on the phone with the guy again. He's tried. He's demanded that I call him, he's mocked me, telling me that I'm afraid to speak with him. Not true. I simply know that it would be an unproductive conversation where he would shout me down, insult me, and hang up. ...

Hey, the Democrats can do it to Kerry Healey, so why shouldn't a conservative set up Deval Patrick Watch to fisk every last thing Patrick does and says?

The Accidental Fiddler is a new blog by a downtown busker. Featuring her daily good and bad experiences playing violin in downtown subway stops and above-ground locations and including the obligatory run-in with an overbearing T guy throwing his weight around even though he has no idea what the T's busking regulations are.

The Margolis brothers at Hub Politics are getting support from unusual quarters in its fight with the Mihos campaign, which tried to shut the blog down over its comments about a Web site that may or may not have been owned by the Christy's Market company.

Mass. Marrier, about as far to the left as Hub Politics is to the right, comes to the site's defense:

A couple of days ago, Hub Politics noticed that www.christymihos.net, which at the time was registered to Christy's of Cape Cod, was mirroring Christy Mihos's campaign site. Violation of state campaign finance laws, which require notification of "in kind" contributions, Hub Politics, a pro-Kerry Healey site, said.

Libel, the Mihos campaign responds. According to Hub Politics, the campaign has asked the blog's Web host to do something about this egregious violation of the host's acceptable use policies. The Web host responded by asking Hub Politics to delete the post in question.

Note: The domain no longer mirrors the campaign site; the Google cache from April 23 shows only a link to the campaign site. And the whois record has been modified to delete any reference to Christy's Market.

Andy Carvin is liveblogging this Harvard conference on the intersection of old and new media.

Steve tells you everything you need to know about how to blog.

A few weeks back, the Deval Patrick Web site posted a "testimonial" video that turned out to be from his campaign co-chairwoman (which became news after the Hub Politics guys sussed her out).

Now the Patrick campaign has asked the readers of Blue Mass. Group for help in writing a "transparency" policy for future testimonials.

On the one hand, most cool - it's smart to reach out to the online crowd and get their advice on online stuff. On the other hand, um, guys, is this really that hard to figure out? If somebody's your campaign co-chairwoman, do you need an official policy to decide that not identifying her will create certain issues?

Hub Politics is shocked, shocked, that it wasn't asked for its opinion, but opens up its floor for suggestions anyway.

BMG loses a reader for outing that Reilly campaign volunteer posting nasty stuff about Deval Patrick; says it will not be turned into a place for campaign mouthpieces.