Letters Section - Blast Magazine

Letter from the Editor: Four years in the books

December 4, 2010

My god. Have we really been at this for four years already? It seems like just yesterday I was watching the countdown clock on our original domain name, theblastarea.com as we prepared to edit and put out ou...

Letter from the editor: A “Dear John” to the French fries

John M. Guilfoil

December 31, 2008

My dear, dear French fries, We need to talk. The years have gone by so fast for us. From my first McDonald's fry 24 years ago to the wide crinkle cut deliciousness at Glenwood in Connecticut and Town Spa ...

Letter from the editor: So how bad WAS IX Web Hosting?

John M. Guilfoil

August 1, 2008

Let me first apologize. For about a year now, we've been using IX Web Hosting as an inexpensive solution to our very simple web hosting needs -- three domains powered by WordPress. After all, we don't have a...

Letter from the Editor: What did we learn this month?

John M. Guilfoil

January 31, 2008

It was a long month packed with news, drama and Britney going to the hospital. In an homage to Letterman's return to the air, here are the top 10 things you should come away with in January: 10. Your dog ...

Letter from the editor: Kyla Ebbert Kyla Ebbert Kyla Ebbert

John M. Guilfoil

December 15, 2007

I saw the stats, and I still didn't believe it. We wrote a 189-word brief about Kyla Ebbert -- a Southwest Airlines passenger who was almost kicked off for wearing a skimpy (it wasn't even that skimpy really......

Letter from the Editor – November

John M. Guilfoil

November 1, 2007

I want to tell you a little more about our editors. The newest addition to the Blast crew, Bessie King is with us in Boston as the Entertainment Editor. That's the reason why you're seeing a ton more content...

What the…?

John M. Guilfoil

October 17, 2007

We're unveiling distinct, new pages for each for each of our sections, a new home page and a redesigned individual article page as well as over 100 tweaks and fixes.

Letter from the Editor: Blast – The (open) Online Magazine

John M. Guilfoil

July 9, 2007

I hope you're enjoying July's issue of Blast Magazine so far. A lot has gone into development and content lately, and I want to share some content developments with you. The big news is that we are taking...

Letter from the editor

John M. Guilfoil

June 2, 2007

Summertime. Blast Magazine clearly doesn't fear change, and I hope you don't either. What we're trying to do is be able to put out flashy covers and section pages and use our excellent graphic design and pho...

Letter from the editor

John M. Guilfoil

May 1, 2007

Well, it's May. This month we flew out to Hollywood to sit down with Dominic Comperatore, a perennial television actor who has made his emergence onto the big screen in a big way. Kelly Bodami talked with hi...

Letter from the Editor

John M. Guilfoil

April 1, 2007

Blast has been under the knife lately, and the facelift is coming along nicely. The navigation is more conducive to all screen resolutions, and our dynamic archives system kicked off in mid-March, powered by...

Letter from the Editor

John M. Guilfoil

March 1, 2007

Massachusetts may finally have a chance passing a journalism shield law. California and 29 other states already have one, but that hasn't helped Josh Wolf, a video-blogging convergence journalist who videoed a...

Letter from the Editor

John M. Guilfoil

February 1, 2007

Everybody hates Valentine's Day. But here at Blast, we use it as an excuse to talk about sex and relationships. What's the deal with make-up sex anyway? This month, we decided to look at romance iss...

Letter from the editor

John M. Guilfoil

January 1, 2007

Happy New Year indeed. Welcome to Blast Magazine, a hard-fought piece of journalism. In the late 1990s, the Internet was in what could be called a golden age. For starters, it was much smaller. MySpace wa...