Massachusetts

I went to my first meeting of the Social Media Club Boston tonight. I'd held off for a while, since I'm not in marketing. Of course, now that I'm on Twitter, I can't help from being in marketing. And, the promised topic was good: "Change-Dot-Gov".

I caught wind before the weekend of Governor Deval Patrick's bid to freshen up his image by unveiling a new website.

Dan Kennedy asks why he didn't do it on Mass.gov?

I suppose it's simply easier for him to post the information there. And the discussion on Blue Mass Group basically confirms this. But let's look at the details:

For community journalism, there's no easier story to carry than the one I'm about to describe. The ol' “Mainstream Media” broke it first. Now we would expect the blogs to enter stage front and take the case, maybe organize some advocacy journalism. Heard of made-for-TV? This one's made-for-blogs: it's got an underdog community media effort against an out-of-town one trying to push it out. The Maynard (MA) High School radio station is about to lose its license to a California-based religious broadcaster which has been scouring up licenses nationwide, with the FCC's neutral approach enabling it.