After nearly 12 years, NorthEndWaterfront.com will be winding down over the next few months and cease publishing in January 2021. This announcement comes with great respect and much gratitude to our strong and supportive readership. Simply put, the site has over-stretched our technical and spare-time limits as an ad-hoc operation. Year after year, I wondered Read More…
NorthEndWaterfront.com is 10 years old! We find it hard to believe a full decade has passed since we started publishing community “news and views”. It was May 8, 2009 when we posted our first article about a candidates forum for the State Representative seat vacated by Sal DiMasi (e.g., some young 30 year-old kid won Read More…
Welcome to the whiz bang new layout of NorthEndWaterfront.com! How are your New Year’s resolutions going? One that I made a few years ago was to liven up and refresh the NorthEndWaterfront.com website. Better late than never, so I am officially counting it as a completed 2017 resolution! Back in 2009, NorthEndWaterfront.com started as an extension of community meeting minutes. Read More…
Readers often ask me about the ins and outs of NorthEndWaterfront.com. I recently did an interview for Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers covering the launch of the site in 2009, its current status, our successes, challenges and future goals. Here are some excerpts: When did your site launch, what geography does it cover and why was it founded? Read More…
New Year’s is a time of reflection. Let’s take a look at what happened on NorthEndWaterfront.com during 2014. NorthEndWaterfront.com was viewed 2.4 million times in 2014, according to Google Analytics. Wow! Within those views were over 350,000 users (unique visitors) putting in more than 660,000 sessions (visits to the site). All those numbers are noticeably higher Read More…
Happy Birthday! NorthEndWaterfront.com is 5 years old this week! That’s right, we are leaving our toddler years and starting to grow up (just a little bit). It was May 8, 2009 when we posted our first article. The site looked a lot different back then. In fact, some would say it was barely functional. Still, we plodded Read More…
Thank you to everyone that responded to the polls regarding our comment system. Thanks also to those that contacted us privately via email or in person around the neighborhood. One thing is for sure … everyone is reading the comments! For the most part, we heard “Don’t fix what’s not broken.” With 77% support in Read More…
I receive a lot of comments about “the comments.” I am interested in the community’s view on ways to improve the current comments system on NorthEndWaterfront.com. Please participate in these two polls on potential changes for 2014! The first one is easy. Should we keep the Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down feature? I am Read More…
Please welcome Conor Finley as a contributing reporter on NorthEndWaterfront.com! This formal introduction is overdue since Conor has been posting regularly for the past couple of months. Still, I wanted to make it “official” since he has been so prolific that many of you have already told me how much you are enjoying his articles. Read More…
Matt Conti alerted me to this. More about Matt later, but for now, consider what he found. Zillow.com is a real estate web site that appears to be growing in influence. It is filled with listings, but also celebrity real estate gossip and assessments of real estate industry health across the country. Recently it rated Read More…
NorthEndWaterfront.com has hit 1,000 “Likes” on Facebook! We started cross-posting a while ago and know that many readers now follow the blog exclusively through Facebook. In case you are reading this and want to do the same, you can find our Facebook page here and hit the “Like” button. A great way to share our Read More…
Hello NorthEndWaterfront.com Readers! It is after Memorial Day and that means time for summer in the North End! Here is a summer 2012 update, including new site updates. The 2012 North End Feast Schedule is now posted. This weekend brings the first religious procession of the summer festival season, with the procession of Santa Maria Read More…