C-V2X

No, it isn’t a new droid from the Star Wars ecosystem. C-V2X stands for cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, a new system which will allow vehicles to communicate with each other, as well as with pedestrians, cyclists and road infrastructure such as traffic...

#Vaccinated

After the longest of years, the palpable sense of calm that settles over you as you receive your 2nd dose of the Covid vaccine is amazing. How great is science?! What a feat of human ingenuity and creativity to bring these miracle vaccines to us so quickly, vaccines...

RIP to a Legend

It is beyond parody now – as the weeks of 2020 go by, something truly significant happens and you shake your head and say to yourself that 2020 is some kind of year. We all thought 2020 had such potential – it is a really cool number after all – and then it actually...

More Roads Don’t Solve Traffic Issues

If you happen to make a poor decision and drive back home at 2pm on Sunday after a long July 4th weekend, you end up cursing the crush of traffic and getting angry at the State of New Hampshire for not insisting on building more lanes on I-95. You make a simple...

Paying For Content

I have no idea if paying for online content has taken enough of a hold to help the newspaper business, but when I take a look at my habits it is interesting how things have changed. Ten years ago I paid for the Boston Globe and (3) magazines. These days my household...

The Globe Archives

Blog postings about the Boston Globe tend to be a little negative these days – after all, it isn’t easy to transition to new ways to run a newspaper when your industry model gets scrambled and you have to totally reconstruct how you distribute news and...