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Tag: Patch

  • Preparations for Easter at St. George’s

    Much thanks to Maplewood Patch editor Mary Mann for taking the visual images from St. George’s Palm Sunday observance and turning it into a spritely and thorough announcement of the upcoming Easter services. Cranky political commentary will resume here soon.  In the meantime, may Holy Week and Easter be a time of reflection and renewal […]

  • A Prodigy in Madison: My Latest Patch.com Article

    I met a remarkable young man recently — a six-year-old taking organ lessons at the church where I work.  I wrote about him for Patch.com’s Madison website.  Here’s how it starts: His feet don’t reach the pedals.  His arms barely stretch to the top keyboard.  His pudgy little fingers seem dwarfed by the keys. But […]

  • Darwinian Selection in the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM

    Big cyber-news today in Maplewood, NJ, the place one blogger once called “the center of the blogging universe.” The New York Times abruptly shuttered The Local, its New Jersey experiment in hyperlocal blogging.  I’ve chronicled the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM here, here, here and here. Instead of just shutting down, the NYT is passing its baton to […]

  • AOL to Acquire Maplewood. Sort Of.

    (Welcome, New York Times readers.) Comes today the news that AOL is acquiring Patch.com, the owner of Maplewood Patch, a stalwart member of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM. (I’ll have you know I taught myself how to hand-code that superscript in HTML.)  Maplewood Patch, by way of disclosure, has seen fit to publish some articles I have […]

  • The Maplewood BlogolopolisTM Holds Its First Summit

    Welcome, Maplewood Patch readers!  Feel free to check out the further adventures of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM, or otherwise explore the musings of a red state voter in a deep-blue town and state. (See caption information at my new article on Maplewood Patch.)

  • Googliath Continues Patchwork Expansion in NJ

    Patch.com, the venture-capitalized, Google-zillionaire-backed startup that recently launched town-specific news and information websites in Maplewood, South Orange and Millburn, today announced plans to expand into an additional three nearby communities. The newest Patches are slated to open in May in Summit, Westfield and Scotch Plains (including Fanwood), all in Union County. Summit is contiguous with […]

  • Step Aside, NY Times — Patch Is Bringing Google Zillions to Hyperlocal Maplewood

    I got interested in the hyperlocal Maplewood BlogolopolisTM because the mighty New York Times was wading into the fray (and I happen to know the local Times reporter). But it turns out the Times is only the SECOND-best capitalized hyperlocal effort in Maplewood. The newcomer to watch is something called Patch.com. I barely noticed Maplewood […]

  • Maplewood NJ, Pop. 23,000, Now Has Four FIVE Competing Local Websites

    (Don’t miss my followup post about the true 800-pound gorilla of the story. Also, I tweaked this post’s headline and added a substantive Update at the end.) Suddenly the Maplewood hyperlocal web neighborhood is crowded. The mighty NY Times today launched two local websites, each staffed with a full-time, veteran Times reporter. One site is […]