Sam Allis Gets It – Sorta

Today’s
Sam
Allis column in the Globe opens with a maudlin and meandering discourse
on the changing meaning of the word "neighborhood". Finally, by the seventh
paragraph, he gets to the point:

Which brings me to a meeting of a nascent group called Boston Media
Makers last Sunday morning at Sweet Finnish, a bakery in Jamaica Plain.

Steve Garfield, an independent video producer, dreamed up the name and
the idea of assembling video bloggers on a regular basis to palaver about
their passion. Michael Oh, the WiFi wizard from Tech Superpowers, was
also on hand to field technical questions.

Welcome to the ‘hood circa 2006.

Actually, Allis is
one of the better writers over at the Boston Globe. He goes on to profile
old buddy and uber-vlogger Steve Garfield who
has been organizing meetups of vloggers, wannabe vloggers and just
plain weird, cinemagraphic people for
a while now.  Sam, meanwhile, has had his journalistic spider-sense
tingling for a while. He knows there is something happening here,
but what it is ain’t exactly clear. Give the guy points for trying to figure
it out.

from the Boston Globe