BostonNOW

Hey, Iceland, pick up your trash

adamg — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:15:09 +0000

Paul Levy photographs some detritus from the Icelandic-owned BostonNow: A box dumped by the Green Line tracks at Longwood:

... Too bad, too, that they couldn't at least have picked up their trash before they folded.

At least the salespeople are wanted

adamg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:05:08 +0000

There's a fun mini-battle in the comments section of the We're Dead story on BostonNow. A post urging salespeople to contact the HR person at the Quincy Patriot-Ledger is followed by:

Attention Sales Staff. Why join another Daily we all know they are dying. The Bulletin Newspapers, Inc. is looking for sales people to join our weekly newspaper group. Contact Paul DiModica ...

Meanwhile, at least one BostonNow blogger plans to keep blogging, although somewhere else.

Call it BostonThen

adamg — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:26:07 +0000

Associated Press gets the scoop: BostonNow is kaput.

Some 52 full-time and 100 part-time employees now out of work. Hmm, I wonder what happens to all the blogs on their site?

BostonNow is run by jackasses

adamg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:28:53 +0000

The Missus explains why. Jeans are involved.

Are they just sieg-ing things?

adamg — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:51:56 +0000

Boston Mag staffers are unanimous: A BostonNow soduku puzzle today starts out with a swastika. However, they are not willing to assign malicious intent because of the paper's glorious, albeit short, history of missing the obvious.

The 'Here We Go!' hawker at Porter Square

adamg — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:12:10 +0000

Jon Milkman limns the BostonNow hawker at Porter Square who clearly takes pride in his work, even to the point of coming up with a catchphrase:

... [T]o me as i bolted through the porter T entrance late to work and aimed myself at the escalator: "alright, on the run, here we go!!!" (holding out a paper to me like he was passing off a baton in a relay race)

he's kind of awesome.

Chinese, Japanese, what's the diff?

adamg — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:08:29 +0000

Apparently, at BostonNow, not much.

Also, check out Yelp reviews of BostonNow, especially the one from the guy who tries to give a copy of the paper back to a hawker at Copley.

Globe catches up with BostonNow, declares MBTA broke

adamg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:02:34 +0000

It's good the Globe has a transportation reporter again, maybe they'll stop getting scooped by BostonNow by a month. Compare today's Globe story on how Dan Grabauskas says the T is broke with BostonNow's Jan. 9 story on how Dan Grabauskas says the T is broke.

But speaking of our bankrupt transportation authority, the Outraged Liberal says it's time to stick a fork in Grabauskas. TJIC doesn't express much sympathy for him, either.

Which would you believe? Record-high foreclosure numbers or BostonNow?

adamg — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:36:06 +0000

Amy Derjue poses the question after reading a report on a 600% (!) increase in Massachusetts since 2005 and then following that up with a BostonNow report that the Massachusetts economy is doing just fine.

When news breaks, they'll get around to it

adamg — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:11:13 +0000

BostonNow is the Daily Show of Boston newspapers: It's put to bed too early in the day to get actual election results, so they just make stuff up. Or, as Jason Feifer remarks on today's cover story: Dewey defeats Clinton:

Somehow, Boston Metro was able to get the real story in print.

OmahaNow

adamg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:47:12 +0000

The Outraged Liberal wonders how the editors of a paper called BostonNow decided to lead with the Omaha shooting rather than the fireball that incinerated an Everett rotary:

... Memo to staff: Everett is a working class community in the Boston area. Omaha is in Nebraska. Nebraska is not Massachusetts. ...

BostonNow editors did discuss the Everett story at their Wednesday story conference, at least.

QUICK: Which paper is from Boston?

bostonnow.com enhanced with rich platform goodness

adamg — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:44:20 +0000

Props to the Nowians for moving their site to Drupal, which is a great community and publishing platform (I will admit to being biased - I use it both here and at work)

Both their news and user blogs are now Drupalized, which could lead to some interesting things if they look at Drupal's aggregation and social-networking capabilities (oh, ho, of course I'm geeking out here).

But, guys, you might want to look at the site in Internet Explorer.

Tabloids at 20 paces

adamg — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:41:32 +0000

Charles Blandes photographs a battle in our local free-paper war.

Boston papers don't much care about elections in Boston

adamg — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:39:55 +0000

Adam Reilly looks up the coverage by Boston's dailies (all four of 'em) and concludes you'd need to go elsewhere for coverage of today's city-council preliminaries in Allston/Brighton and Roxbury and state-rep race in East Boston.

He also finds it curious that neither paper is covering this week's trial of a man accused of killing two people in an Allston/Brighton apartment last January.

For election info:

East Boston: Hubster candidate interviews.
Allston/Brighton: Brighton Centered | Allston Brighton Community Blog
Roxbury: Um, anybody know?

Could somebody buy BostonNow a copy of the AP Stylebook?

adamg — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:59:54 +0000

Eeka points out terminology problems in a story about people with disabilities and so helpfully copy edits the story.