We'd like to take a break from editorializing about the politics of the moment this week to encourage all Open Media Boston viewers to support the encuentro 5 (yes, it's a small "e") movement space that is home to our nascent office.
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14 Nov 2008 - 7:51pm
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14 Nov 2008 - 6:45pm
BOSTON/Kenmore Square - Several environmental activists from Rising Tide Boston handed out samples of "green coal" - actual pieces of coal painted green - to lunchtime passers-by outside the Bank of America branch at Boston University today to protest the bank's investment in coal power.
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9 Nov 2008 - 8:26am
Natick, MA - Patty Kupfer of America's Voice was the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by Pax Christi and several faith organizations in the Metrowest area on Monday, Oct 20th at the Natick Library. She spoke about the importance of caring for immigrants and related their plight to one of the most famous migrants, Jesus. Much of his narrative is a plea to followers to welcome and assist the traveler and the stranger.
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7 Nov 2008 - 11:39pm
As it happens, my 42nd birthday has fallen on a Friday - the same day we normally put Open Media Boston "to bed" at the end of our weekly news cycle.
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7 Nov 2008 - 3:24pm
Wifi networks using WPA encryption are now vulnerable to attack thanks to work done by researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck.
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4 Nov 2008 - 2:18pm
Regardless of who wins Tuesday’s presidential election, Boston residents and elected officials will still have to grapple with the urban siting of a laboratory where extremely dangerous germs are proposed to be studied.
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3 Nov 2008 - 11:55am
BOSTON/Roxbury - Over 150 people participated in a "Community Unity Rally" to support the "No on Question 1" campaign this evening at Roxbury Community College.
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2 Nov 2008 - 11:30pm
Walking in Davis Square two days before the election, I saw a rather dour-looking young man seated on a high pedestal holding a handwritten sign that read “No on Socialism.” Heading on by him, I looked at the back of his sign. It said, “Is Obama an American?”
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2 Nov 2008 - 10:57pm
No longer are PC and Mac users stuck with only the operating system that shipped with their hardware. Users have several choices of virtualization software that allows them to concurrently run a virtual guest machine with the same or a different operating system from their host machine.
