Boston.com visits Davis Square - video report

[ron_newman]

Two young Boston Globe reporters visited Davis Square last month and made this 3 1/2 minute video, which is currently displayed on the Boston.com front page.

Local businesses featured in this video: Cibeline, Diesel Cafe, Magpie, Kickass Cupcakes, and the Somerville Theatre. (Compare with this TurnHere.com video from last year.)

Boston.com still isn't hip enough to accept blog comments, so you'll have to leave them here instead.

EDIT 3/21/08: The Boston.com video link has stopped working. Try this one instead.

Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Are they actually supposed to be pros or is that some sort of user-submitted thing? Because it really felt like the latter.

[ron_newman]

Those are two Globe reporters, Courtney Hollands and Meredith Goldstein.

[ece-drihten.livejournal.com]

Courtney Hollands is awesome.

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

Hey Ron -- I was reading the Davis Square Livejournal with my one-year-old in my lap, and she started signing "bicycle" -- a sign I didn't even know she'd picked up, but it was pretty clear. I couldn't figure out why for a minute, and then it dawned on me what she saw. :)

[ece-drihten.livejournal.com]

Hollands is a boston.com producer. She updates the webpage and the style blog. I worked with her over there for a while.

[spatch]

I'm rather happy with the Globe not enabling comments on its stuff. Not everything has to have comments these days. You start thinking like that, you buy right into the Web2.0 hype-o-gumma and the next thing you know, we're all rounded corners and absolutely no user-driven content to show for it. It'd only de-evolve into a cesspool of trolls, flamewars, and more trolls, anyway.

[righteousness-1.livejournal.com]

Nice to get some good press here in Davis Square.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Right on.

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

Boston.com is so desperate... now I see why.

I liked the valley-girl biting-off-consonants accents though.. like rilly

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I saw student productions in college better shot, written, and narrated than this.

Speaking of awesome...

[nora-rocket.livejournal.com]

Your userpic.

[ece-drihten.livejournal.com]

*bows*

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They had comments briefly, and they turned out to be mostly spam or ethnic slurs, so they discontinued them.