Jay Neely

@jayneely.bsky.social

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Boston (Somerville) and web explorer. Thinking about news, media business models, and the attention economy. Formerly the creator of Boston Startups Guide, co-organizer of Startup Boston, and Digital Community Builder at Boston Globe Media.

Lexie on her 18th birthday, with her biological father Alex who recently passed away.
Me trying on a pink cowboy hat on a trip to Florida visiting my nieces.
Graph from Google Trends showing a massive spike in interest in "local events" in 2026 compared to the previous four years.
Screenshot of Rhyme.com's homepage with my own annotation, a circle around their sentence "One canonical room per topic" and my commentary "Yikes" pointing to it with an arrow.
An ouroboros image of a snake eating its tail in an infinite loop, with the reddit Snoo mascot head in place of the reddit head.
Screenshot from Discuit front page, January 23rd, 2026.
Screenshot from the front page of PieFed, January 23rd, 2026.
Screenshot from the front page of digg, January 23rd, 2026.
Screenshot from the front-page of lemmy.world, January 23rd, 2026.
Graph of spending in the 2024 election cycle by industry sector, via https://www.citationneeded.news/follow-the-crypto/
Screenshot of multiple spammers in Facebook comments.
Google maps screenshot of Greater Boston with the City of Boston limits highlighted.
A tall stalk of brussel sprouts protrudes out of a person's backpack, rising above their head.
Decaying jack-o-lantern looking like a grumpy demon that's given up as it sags in on itself.
Sunset photo with two airplane vapor trails; one leading straight up perpendicular to the horizon, the other trailing down diagonally toward the setting sun.
Chef Jessica Tiffany Luevano, one of the contestants on the first episode of Dropout's new cooking competition show, Gastronauts.
Climate Monsters - Public art opening celebration! Saturday, August 24, 2:00-4:00pm. Boston Children's Museum patio. Kid-friendly "make your own Climate Monster" art workshop with Little Uprisings. Climate Monsters is an Augmented Reality installation and illustrated narrative by Sarah Brophy that imagines the threats of water-related climate change as mythological monsters.
ArtBeat Festival banner by the Somerville Arts Council. "Wild" theme. Davis Square, July 13th (rain date, July 14th).
"5-person dress" screenshot from Thousandaires.
Snow at the main intersection in Davis Square, Somerville, MA.
Screenshot of Narrative Bookshop's instagram post announcing the new store, showing the owner Mila Hossain standing in front of its location, 387 Highland Avenue.