As this is not a travel blog, I have little business posting any travel tips for Boston. However, as many of us are returning to Boston in August for Affiliate Summit East 08, it will be good to know these things for any first-time traveler to the Boston area.

• Boston Cab Co. is the most reliable and easiest to get ahold of when you need a taxi. Keep their number handy – (617) 536-5010. Rates are reasonable for a big city, too.
• Faneuil Hall is pronounced “fan-you-ill” and is home to (among cool historic things) the Hollywood Replica Cheers Bar (complete with gift shop). If you want the original Cheers, it’s in the Beacon Hill district on Beacon St. Faneuil Hall is right in front of Quincy Market, South Market, & North Market. It’ll take probably an afternoon to see everything if you want to just wander around. Very picturesque.
• The Cheers Beer is nothing special, but you do get to keep the glass. I guess that makes it worth $15. The Irish Stew is really good on an overcast Boston day. The Boston Cream Pie was “meh”.
• Delivery.com has HUNDREDS of local places to choose from if you’re too lazy to leave your hotel. A lot have late delivery hours too. Thank you, college town!
• Charlie’s Pizza & Cafe has good burgers (they’re on Delivery.com!)
• There are like a million colleges there – it’s almost ridiculous.
• Duck Boats truly caught my imagination – I wanted to take a Duck Boat tour, but it’s too expensive for my blood (~$32).
• New England Style Clam Chowder eaten IN New England isn’t any better than what we have here in San Francisco. At least not at the Boston Chowda Co. (I tried it at the Prudential Center Food Court).

Boston really is a beautiful coastal city. Take a short drive!

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This week has been nuts – I’ve been on both coasts, in three time zones, and multiple states of mind. Yesterday, I admit, was really hard to get my head back into an “office” frame of mind. Which includes coming back to blogging. So here’s the easy post of the week – a wrap up of stuff you might have missed.

• PsPrint gets some ink in USA Today – woot! This is just plain a great article about print marketing, aside from what obviously lead me to this article. Kudos to author Rhonda Abrams!
• We also got a nod on InsideCRM.com, even though I wish we were higher up than #50. Give us some credit, man!
• Delivery.com came to my rescue in Boston. Seriously, it’s awesome!
• FeedFront, a new magazine being put out by Shawn Collins & Missy Ward, is coming to us soon! There looks to be some great articles. On the AffiliateThing podcast this week Shawn mentioned that it will most likely be a quarterly thing, and free! So go sign up – what do you have to lose?
• Affiliate-Karma.com has been launched by the internet geek girl herself Stephanie Agresta – not for nothing, but from what I can tell it’s just another outsourced program management firm.
• Remember that even the smallest of holidays, like the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, allow for great marketing opportunities!
• BuyTV, an online show hosted by Melissa Salas, is going national. G4 picked it up to run on their cable network. Just goes to show that great web content can take you places!

That’s about it for this week. I did have to declare feed bankruptcy and Digg shout bankruptcy to help weed through the stuff I missed at the beginning of the week, so if there’s anything I should have seen and didn’t, share it with me in the comments.

Have a terrific Memorial Day weekend!

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