It's always most cool to put faces with the blogs you've been reading for months or even years - let alone catching up with some folks you've known for awhile. Last night, about a dozen of us blogger types, from as far away as Dedham and Dorchester met up at Doyle's Cafe basically just to say hi. Alyssa lists some of the folks and posts photos (including one of me taking a picture of her). Mike Ball proved far more organized than me - he brought name tags (and pens, even). Even the Drew Gilpin ...

Mother Brook is a blog about the country's oldest canal, which connects the Charles and Neponset rivers via Dedham and Hyde Park. ...

This is for the bloggers in the audience; everybody else can safely ignore! Read more ...

Yes, you can pay somebody to write your blog for you. ...

Live in Roslindale or Jamaica Plain (or even just in a neighborhood that borders one of them)? Meet your fellow neighborhood bloggers for a beer: Wednesday, May 14th, starting at 7 p.m. in the back room (yes, the famous back room) at Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington St. in JP (map). ...

Ken George, new media honcho at WBUR, is having a bit of trouble coming up with a name for his new blog. Come up with a good name and a This American Life T-shirt (in Chinese) is all yours. ...

Dare to complain about how Howie Carr called in a column about how awful the Marathon is? You'll do it on your own site, the Herald tells Tai Irwin, scrubbing its own Web pages clean of the former 'FNX jock's Tai-Rade blog (his blog URL now only brings up "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria"). Free Republic, of all places, has a copy of the offending post, which, OK, takes a dig or two at the Herald ("purchased by over a dozen Bostonians at newsstands"). Scroll down a screen or so. Via Bosto...

Brian Moore liveblogs his trip to New York on the new BoltBus. ...

It's one thing for a blogger to make a mistake (heck, I do it all the time). It's quite another for him to read a reply calling him out for that mistake, fix the mistake, then accuse the commenter of making things up. Then again, this is Butch Stearns on Fox25 we're talking about. ...

Future MBTA is the new home of the coolest MBTA what-if maps ever. ...

Massachusetts Driving Laws is a blog by Jessica A. Foley, Esq, that covers: Driving related legal issues for Massachusetts residents, including drunk driving, speeding tickets, moving violations, junior operators, senior drivers, license suspensions, hardship licenses and more. ...

David is dying for somebody to write a good "What Boston people like" post. Surely we can rise to the occasion, no? Boston.TV is looking for a fulltime blogger-type person. After a couple of e-mails, I'm still not sure exactly what the job entails, but if you know video and want to get paid to blog, contact Ted Wayman at ted@boston.tv. ...

Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, is blogging his experiences: Throughout the rehearsal process of Mahler's Ninth Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, I had been aware that one of the violinists had been sitting in an overly-relaxed, almost slouched position. By the time of the dress rehearsal, her posture, still unchanged, was in noticeable contrast to the other players, who were now fired-up and physically demonstrative. Although her playing was co...

The Herald gets the scoop: BostonNow is kaput. Some 52 full-time and 100 part-time employees now out of work. Hmm, I wonder what happens to all the blogs on their site? ...

Craig Goedecke, who lives in Hull, has been a movie extra since the 1980s. Thanks to the Commonwealth's moviemaking tax breaks, he's been picking up some extra extra work of late, enough to start a blog about being a movie extra. ...

The people of Brighton, MA have lived long enough with this driver's eye-soar that is NO TURN ON RED in front of the Police Department at the corner of Washington St. and Cambridge St. When driving down Washington St. from Comm. Avenue, you have two choices; Left to Brighton Center and Right toward Storrow Drive and the Pike. Please, take down the useless sign, which drivers don't pay attention to anyway and please put the empty Police Cruiser you have parked out front in the parking lot. You ...

Mike Ball and I have been kicking around the idea of having a get-together for folks of the blogging persuasion in our neck of the woods. If you live in JP or Roslindale or thereabouts (it's not like we'd be checking IDs at the door, or something) and would like to meet your blogging neighbors, let me know, either here or via by e-mail, so we can begin to figure out if Doyle's would work or if we'd have to rent the Hynes. ...

The Massachusetts Human Trafficking Task Force blog, published by Boston Police, will post missing-persons reports and related information. ...

He's had quite enough: I decided to start blogging from the grave due to the preponderance of mistruths and inaccuracies that have spread across the people by virtue of biographical books and television series. It appears that a host of lecherous pundits and writers have jumped on the John Adams bandwagon. Even in the grave, these hangers-on are annoying and aggravating. So, good people, I have decided to enter the Blogesphere, as i believe it is called, not to correct the inaccuracies of what ...

The Times reports bloggers who sit motionless in front of their monitors around the clock are dying in record numbers. Well, two of them died, at any rate. But it's in the Times, so it must be true. It's great journalism. Let me see if I can apply the formula to another field - journalism itself: Read more ...