The Boston Globe may be cutting their news room staffers – but they're scraping together some funds to push through some new media. According to the Pop-Ed site, where the videos are posted, "Boston.com is proud to present 'Pop-Ed,' a daily original song and accompanying video written and performed by local musician Jake Brennan, focusing on news and events that take place that day. Jake will find news of interest in the morning and then......

How do you measure, measure a year evacuation route? Self-described new media artist, kanarinka is undertaking a project to evacuate Boston and count every breath taken. She's up to 20,271 to date over the combined eight runs. Each leg is mapped out on a Google map and recorded as a podcast you can listen to. She's estimated that by the time she's done with the project she'll have taken 154,000 breaths while running the entire......

On Wednesday evening the Museum of Science hosts a moderated discussion in your first life about the second life. Assistant Professor of New Media Eric Gordon of Emerson College moderates a discussion with John Freeman, an artist in Second Life, Pathfinder Linden, community manager for Linden Lab, and Wagner James Au, an embedded journalist in Second Life. While you might not age in Second Life and flying is par for the course, three dimensions......

Text messages aren't just our favorite way to vote Sanjaya off of American Idol, they're also the quickest way to get in touch, no matter where we are. The mobile is always close at hand (and usually in the pocket) if we're at a concert, in class, or even in the cube toiling away on our TPS reports a text message won't likely go ignored for long. A number of US colleges and universities have......

We’re getting mixed messages in the blogosphere. It’s not uncommon, we’ll admit. Bostonist sat down with this week's edition of the Economist and read the whole section on “new media.” We felt like we might be part of that club in some way, but just laughed out loud when they made the comment “Want a debate? Ask a blogger what a blog is” perfectly valid question - one that has more answers than we......

Media muscle team up over at MIT tonight. Terence Smith of PBS’s NewsHour and Cathy Young of the Boston Globe will be speaking on democracy, the media, and the 2004 election. Bostonist might just go to finally find out the answer to the question everyone’s been asking: "What was the impact of the Internet and the emerging blogosphere?" We love when "old media" people talk about "new media," it’s like your grandpa trying to order......