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Scott Brodeur was born in Groton, Connecticut on a submarine base. He began his career in journalism writing sports, but soon turned his attention to hard news.

While living in Philidelphia, Scott wrote for a magazine as a rock critic. Since then, he has written for music publications such as The Source and Guitar World.

In 1996, he was approached by Advanced Internet and became part of a team that created NJ.com. Since then he has also set up masslive.com, where he still keeps a blog titled "Blog Beat".

In the mid 90s, Scott was doing freelance work for Prodigy, an internet service provider. It was during this time that Scott wrote a piece about Van Morrison. Readers responded to this piece, prompting Scott to respond in kind. He became fond of the kind of interpersonal discourse that only the Internet could provide. Since then, he has become somewhat of an expert in what has become known as the "blogosphere".

Scott teaches part-time at UMass Amherst and currently resides in Northampton, Ma with his wife and three children.