boston.com hacked

By adamg on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 9:40am

Saul B. was among those who noticed a hacked boston.com home page this morning. The Guardian reports the Syrian hackers didn't actually break into boston.com's servers but instead attacked the domain registrar used by a "content distribution network" affected sites use to speed delivery of such things as images and ads.

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Is there anyone left there who cares?

By FredQuimby on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 9:49am.

Apart from the guy with 5000 accounts pushing his right wing talking points on every article?

Its just a junk site now.

Yo' Momma!

By moxie on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:44am.

Apparently yo' Momma doesn't care either. This mornings "news" at that site included a collection of "Mom drunk on Thanksgiving" tweets. Not a news story, but an aggregation of tweets about drunk moms on Thanksgiving. An egregious new low for a site that seems to define the term "race to the bottom."

Makes me almost pine for the

By Riggs not logged in on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:53am.

Makes me almost pine for the good old days of yore, when it was still classy and they had the snowplow game. Incredible how they managed to be a living case study of what not to do.

I think you are wrong

By FredQuimby on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 11:19am.

I think there was a plan by Henry all along to slowly kill BDC in an effort to drive profit back to The Globe. BDC was tremendously popular. But there was no money in it.

It was launched back in 95 in the good old days of big budget newspapers. But nobody knew that the web was going to kill the newspaper business. They dug their own grave and happily jumped in.

All over the country, newspapers are slowly trying to take their content back behind a paywall. And the news aggregators are trying to fill the void with buzzfeed crap

The damage is already done however. People are now used to not paying a subscription. A whole generation has grown up with the expectation that news is something for free with a few advertisements thrown in. If they can't get it free at BDC, they will look elsewhere.

I actually agree with you

By Riggs not logged in on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 1:41pm.

I actually agree with you about them trying to drive the audience to the Globe site, but I think they wasted the brand-awareness their potential audience has with BDC. It could have been a much better conduit to a pay model. The Times did it—and at every step (even when the Times still owned the Globe properties), Boston did the exact opposite. Bewildering.

BDC

By cybah on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 11:27am.

I keep saying it, and it bears repeating.. ;)

BDC = Boston Dot Crap

Syria-sly?

By Brian Riccio on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 9:54am.

I couldn't help myself.

Did y'all see how today's

By Felicity on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 1:07pm.

Did y'all see how today's edition of the Globe is a standard weekday Globe, plus 3lbd ofBlack Friday circulars, for $3.50?

No special features, books, travel, dining, etc., like a Sunday Globe has. Ridiculous!

Bonus for Sunday-only subscribers, though

By adamg on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 1:13pm.

We got the thing for free. Unlike Globe Direct, this has actual content, so win for us.

Not just in Boston

By Ron Newman on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 3:58pm.

Here in Columbus where I'm visiting my family, the Thursday Dispatch was also ridiculously fat with ad inserts, and priced like a Sunday paper ($2 instead of the usual weekday $1)

It has always been thus

By anon on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 2:54pm.

"Did y'all see how today's edition of the Globe is a standard weekday Globe, plus 3lbd ofBlack Friday circulars, for $3.50? No special features, books, travel, dining, etc., like a Sunday Globe has. "

It has always been thus. Even was I was very young in the 60s, the Globe on Thanksgiving was a regular daily plus ten tons of advertising, so it LOOKED like a Sunday paper on the surface, but was not one. This was, of course, before the day after Thanksgiving had the all encompassing marketing name of so-called "Black Friday". We all called it the plain old "day after Thanksgiving" and it was understood that it was a big shopping day, without having to have a special name. Funny how when the "Black Friday" moniker took hold people now just act like it has always been called that. But I guess that's the way things go.

Yes, but did it always cost 2.8 times as much as a daily Globe?

By Ron Newman on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 10:00pm.

That's the more notable part of that comment.

How did they charge you extra?

By Waquiot on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 3:05pm.

They charge in 4 week blocks a set rate. I am horrible at looking at my statements, but I'm willing to bet that the Thursday issue will cost the same (more that $1.25 for some reason, but less than $3.50) as it did last Thursday.

I like getting the Thanksgiving paper on the front steps, not because I don't want to hunt it down at the local keno parlor, but because it makes me feel like I'm 10 years old again, pouring over the ads for Child World and Toys Are Us.