PodCamp Boston 2 Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28 Boston Convention & Expo Center Free, but registration required Official Site PodCamp Boston 2 promises to teach you more than how to bedazzle an iPod, as witnessed on the reality-show I Love New York 2. The days are packed with practical seminars on creating your own web-media empire. Seminar titles include "Web 2.0 Tools That Are Actually Useful" and "Intellectual Property Law for the Creative......

Ivy Gate Blog has been compiling videos of Ivy-League students acting like idiots. Harvard students produced a fine piece of work in which two shirtless male students make an "avant-garde peanut-butter and jelly sandwich" while chugging booze: The one on the right appears to channeling the accent adopted by "Mr. Boston," competitor on the dating reality show I Love New York. Video originally posted to YouTube by HarvardHooligan. His parents are proud.......

The Herald published a great article on the perception of Massachusetts natives on reality television. In general, they're perceived as tough guys at best and obnoxious at worst. Exhibits include Chris Tamburello of "The Real World," Mr. Boston of "I Love New York," Boston Rob of "Survivor," and John Lakness of "Pirate Master." (Where are the women here?) But Tommy Grella of The Next Food Network Star doesn't fit the stereotype. He's big and cuddly......

Well, Bobby Brown doesn't have a clock, but he could use the money, and he's single. So it makes sense that he's pitching a dating show starring himself. Throw in some bikini-clad hoodrats, and you have something special! Or will you? Such a concept (faded musician, hoey babes) has already been done – and done right if you've seen Flavor of Love, in which rapper Flavor Flav selects one woman from a veritable buffet of......

We can't make fun of Senate President Robert Travaglini, lovingly known as "T-Vag," anymore. T-Vag (not to be confused with "T-Weed" of I Love New York fame) has announced that he's leaving that he is leaving the guv'mint for a higher-paying job. $90,000 dollars a year wasn't enough for him, so he's moving on to bigger and better things. The Globe says T-Vag will launch "a lobbying company that would help clients navigate the political......

Mr. Boston of I Love New York proudly refers to himself as a stud, but MIT alum Matthew Herman of Beauty and the Geek was called upon to transform himself from a "Geek" into a "Stud." The Ashton Kutcher-produced Beauty and the Geek is a competition in which several teams of "beauties" and "geeks" try to teach life lessons and social skills to each other. Whichever team trades the most knowledge wins. Bostonist waited to......

In the latest installment of Massachusetts Reality-TV men, Mr. Boston of I Love New York leapfrogs past Tim Urban of The Apprentice when it comes to shocking moments. After the elimination of several liars and one guy who called himself "Pootie," Mr. Boston is still fighting for Tiffany Patterson's heart. Tiffany held a "mangeant" in which each cast member paraded himself before her. Mr. Boston's appearance in the Mangeant was downright disturbing because he came......

In the interest of keeping up with how our local boys are doing in Hollywood, Bostonist is going to check in with Tim Urban of The Apprentice: Los Angeles and "Mr. Boston" from I Love New York. In the Apprentice debut, Harvard man Urban was part of the hyperambitious freak parade. Each contestant tried to impress The Donald and the all-grown-up Ivanka Trump (it's news to us that she has business experience) with how......

Perhaps it's because people from Massachusetts are larger-than-life. This television season has more than a few ties to the upcoming crop of reality-show debuts. Here a few notables from the upcoming schedule: Tim Urban, from Newton, will be on The Apprentice and runs the risk of sleeping in a tent outdoors if he doesn't impress The Donald. He's a pianist, he runs a tutoring company, and he is a Harvard grad. The Globe profiled Urban......