I've recently started doing some work for a nonprofit organization in Cambridge, and was very happy to be provided with some office space for the duration of the project.

A decently done take on the pitfalls of foundations' funding progressive media can be found on uruknet at http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m45927&hd=&size=1&l=e.

It's been almost five months, but we're finally out of our beta development phase. Open Media Boston is now officially launched. We'll have to have some kind of wing-ding to celebrate when we have a spare moment ... for now, we're just happy that Jesse got the the big obnoxious red "beta" tag off the top banner. Dang, that was driving us up the wall.

Our faithful Boston Media Summer Intern, Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia, has done such a great job with his regular Tech pieces that we've made him our first Tech Editor. Congrats, Jesse!

Viewers should take note that Shirley Moskow, a longtime editor, arts and travel reporter and photojournalist for major magazines and newspapers, is now contributing to Open Media Boston. So please join us in welcoming her ...

In one of my high school English classes there was a sign posted to a bulletin board that said "Department of Redundancy Department" as a reminder that it was generally a good idea to avoid repeating words or phrases to many times in a piece of writing. This might also apply between multiple essay titles - or in the case of OMB, article titles.

So although I'm not writing an Apple story for OMB this week, I had to post something for the Cult.

A recent column in the Guardian UK mocks American news media, and sets off a big transatlantic debate - although there is general agreement that our news media is among the worst in the world.

Pity poor ACORN. Turns out the grassroots organizing dynamo had some unfortunate skeletons in its closet.

Netroots Nation, the Woodstock for "liberal bloggers," is bending over backwards to avoid offending Democratic Leadership Council heavies like Nancy Pelosi - in part by rigging her appearance at the e