tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61178805898385802242011-04-21T17:40:58.682-05:00A new free Boston daily newspaper and website incorporating both traditional and citizen journalism.BostonNOWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03409625909391543524noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117880589838580224.post-54677468950973389122007-05-15T15:37:00.000-05:002007-05-15T15:49:18.684-05:00

The BostonNOW.com website is up and ready for blogging! Check out Editor-in-Chief John Wilpers's welcome post to the community.Please visit BostonNOW.com and click on the BlogNOW tab to register for your own BostonNOW.com account and blog. Using our customized WordPressMU interface, you will be able to post original items directly to BostonNOW, or post existing items from your own blogs.We look

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We are having a few last-minute (OK, they're later than last-minute...) bugs with our blogging functionality on BostonNOW.com, so we're going to go to a stop-gap measure for a day or two because we don't want to wait any longer to publish Boston bloggers in the paper.So, here's what we're proposing — If you'd like your blog to be considered for publication in the paper, e-mail us at media@

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Thank you all for your patience.It's been frustrating for us to have launched the BostonNOW without being able to get bloggers into the first editions, but we wanted to make sure we had the blogging functionality right.We knew we had to get our content online the day we launched, so we focused on finishing the content part of the site and kept working on the blogging side of things.But now we're

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In our rush to get some items in the paper and get the paper to the press Thursday night, one of our editors lifted some content from bostonist.com without authorization from the folks at bostonist. We attributed it, giving the web address of the item, but we did not seek permission in advance.Following a post about BostonNOW by Cory Doctorow on boingboing.net, Jon Petitt of bostonist noted the

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Darn.Just when our news meeting was going strong with attendees giving us some great ideas about how Boston-area colleges treat security in light of the Virginia shooting, we lost Internet connectivity. Whoosh.We've regained our connection, but we have to go back to putting out the paper, so we'll just have to meet again tomorrow at 1 p.m. (the poll asking attendees if they preferred the 1 p.m.

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Good morning!We're pleased with our first edition and the launching of the first stage of our website (the bloggling functionality will be up soon!).We're also exhausted, having stayed up WAY too late and we're postponing today's news meeting to 1 PM (we're such wimps!).My apologies if this inconveniences anyone.See you at 1 p.m. at bostonnow.com/newsroom/.Bring your ideas. And tell us what you

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Hey, all!Our first news meeting is available for online viewing here. Thanks to all who attended! We're still learning and experimenting with the technology, so if you had issues with the video or audio feed, please leave a comment on this post or send me an email at robrien@bostonnow.com with your concerns.Cheers,Regina

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Good wet morning.We're moving the daily news meeting time to 10:30 a.m. to give us more time each day to gather stuff to make it more interesting (and to let us recover from putting out the paper the night before...).NEWS MEETING LINK: http://bostonnow.acrobat.com/newsroomnowRemember, there is a 60 "seat" limit to the online auditorium (we're using Adobe ConnectPro). Notify us if you can't get in

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Things are pretty frenetic here as we count down the hours to our Monday, April 16 website launch and Tuesday, April 17 newspaper launch.We can’t wait. (Well, that’s not entirely true, as we wouldn’t mind having an extra day or two to tighten things up a bit.) Building a website and newspaper from scratch in less than two months is, to put it mildly, a real stretch. Our Web Content Master, Regina

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At the weekly Berkman Center blogger meeting last Thursday, there were several questions that we promised to answer later. Here they are. If any of you who attended (or anyone else, for that matter) has any more questions, please ask them here and we'll get back to you. Libel/obscenity on the Web: How will we deal with it?The BostonNOW online community will be self-policed. If readers see a post

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Thanks to all the folks who came Tuesday to our second Boston blogger meeting (even when another organization was offering free drinks at their meeting down the road!).I’m especially grateful for all the ideas the participants came up with regarding the placement and labeling of blogger stories in the paper (color coding or the use of an icon or both) as well as on how we should craft a

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Hi, all!I'm scheduled to attend the weekly blogger meeting at the Berkman Center tonight to talk about BostonNOW and answer questions from the group. According to the website, "[a]nyone who wants to join us is welcome." So, if you're in the Harvard Square area (23 Everett Street!) and want to come down around 7pm to hear more about BostonNOW and share your thoughts, please do so!Thanks to Erica

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We've been asked by a lot of folks, "How do I contribute to BostonNOW?" Here are our intial thoughts, which will grow and evolve over time with your input.BostonNOW wants to encourage active participation in our online and print community, so interested contributors will only need to follow a few steps to be considered for the print publication. As soon as the BostonNOW website (bostonnow.com)

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Sorry for the painful pun (with the Boston accent), but we smiled when our entertainment editor, John Black, coined it...and we couldn't resist.As BostonNOW attempts to go where no other major newspaper has ever gone -- welcoming the community into the pages of our paper and our website in significant ways -- we are facing questions no one has yet answered and we are developing a master plan no

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Thanks to everyone who came out to All Asia on Saturday to make our very first Boston Blogger Summit a success!Approximately 50 people showed up over the three hours to learn more about the paper, and each other. Bloggers from all mediums and disciplines enjoyed a few hours of chatting while sampling appetizers from the All Asia kitchen and listening to DJ Anomaly spin tunes.We talked about how

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Our bad!*We didn't make it at all clear in our original posting that, with your input and participation, we will be developing a compensation plan for successful bloggers/citizen-journalists posting on the BostonNOW website. We apologize and hope this post clears up some of your questions and concerns.Over the next several months, we will meet with as many of you as possible to discuss your

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You blog. We blog. Let’s do it together...for hundreds of thousands of readers in Boston.Boston is a diverse city with a distinct personality. Even under all the winter scarves, hats, and coats, you can tell a local from a tourist a block away. We walk quickly, we like our coffee scalding, and we have no respect for sidewalks. If we drive, it's fast and with purpose, and we're not afraid to give

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