The Boston Globe Upgrade Column
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Dec. 16--The wireless controller for the new Nintendo Wii video game  console is light, compact, and dangerous -- at least to TV sets.
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ESPN announced yesterday the signing of Rick Reilly, whose contract with Sports Illustrated expires at the end of November. He will write the back-page column in ESPN the Magazine and deliver essays on âSportsCenterâ during its golf coverage.Reilly said he succumbed to ESPN after rejecting offers 5 and 10 years ago. âThe money was ridiculous,â he said in a news media conference call. âThis is an itch Iâve always wanted to scratch, to take my voice to a different place.â Despite being on TV regularly with one-minute commentaries, he said ESPN wanted him for his column. âBelieve me, with this nose, I know whatâs best for me,â he said.
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Mayor Tom Menino must be proud. His Boston Red Sox just won their first World Series in 86 years and his Hyde Park Blue Stars yesterday clinched their first Super Bowl berth in 32 years, defeating O'Bryant, 14-0. Who would have thought?
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The search giants have tried localizing, but with fair success. Here&#39;s a model that could work better. A new book shows how a change of ownership brought new life to the Boston Red Sox franchise.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.
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Home-delivery rates will increase 3 percent to 4 percent and the newsstand cover price will increase to $1.25, from $1.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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THE REGION The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents newsroom, advertising, and other employees at The Boston Globe, approved a four-year contract that ties pay raises to revenue increases. The 364-194 vote comes nearly two months after union members rejected an offer that tied raises to revenue but excluded revenue of Boston.com, the paper's online affiliate. The new contract includes online ...
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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By Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep.
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By Mark Harrington, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe  May 24--The future of journalism is in your hands.   That was the message yesterday as the John S. and James L.
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By Therese Poletti and Nicole C. Wo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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After spending a day with the old keyword page, and getting bored with it, I came up with a new way to look at news, something I've not tried before, that might be fun and/or useful http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html  Since it's likely to change again soon, here's a screen shot. How it works. Every hour, as usual, it does the nytimesriver scan. Every story is linked to in the database undern all the keywords it references. Then the report, in HTML, is prepared, with the keywords in the left column, and links to all the stories in the right colum. The list is sorted by number of references, the keywords with the most references appear at the top of the list.  So today, baseball is the top item, with 15 references. The teams, the Cleveland Indians and Colorado Rockies, rank high. For some reason (heh) the Boston Red Sox don't appear, even though they're still in it, and the Yankees, even though they've been eliminated (yay!) are near the top at position 10.  It's another leaderboard! (Oh shit.) The stories age, and are removed after 24 hours. After all this is news, not olds.  If you have comments, post them under the screen shot, linked above. PS: Note that since the list just started up today, the initial stories, even though some are already 24 hours old, will remain in the queue until tomorrow morning at this time. So the list will be artificially fat today, it'll thin down tomorrow.