Boston Phoenix
What was so valuable in the Phoenix today?
UPDATE: Rush over to your nearest Phoenix box now for a card worth 30 minutes of free time on a porn site. That's what was worth pawing through all those papers for.
On-the-street reporter Matthew files this puzzler:
Over by North Station I witnessed someone pull the entire stack of papers out of the box. He went through each one to pull out a small white-ish piece of paper.
It didn't look like it was the first distributon box he hit either ...
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The Phoenix has another patent; Facebook not first to feel Mindich wrath
In addition to the patent used by Phoenix subsidiary Tele-Publishing, Inc. to sue Facebook this week, the company has a patent (issued in 2000) for a method and apparatus for matching registered profiles.
And in 2005, Tele-Publishing sued several alternative weeklies across the country for allegedly violating both of these patents. The issue never got to a jury because the newspapers, in Washington, Chicago and Sacramento, settled the matter by signing a licensing deal with Tele-Publishing (here's the consent decree).
Here's the abstract:
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Boston Phoenix claims patent on interactive Web pages; sues Facebook
Tele-Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, Inc., yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the social network's personal pages violate a patent Tele-Publishing was granted in 2001.
The complaint, filed in US District Court in Boston, seeks unspecified treble damages and an end to Facebook's alleged infringement of Tele-Publishing's patent, which sets out a method by which a remote user can upload images and information to a server to build a personal Web page.
From the Tele-Publishing patient:

Tele-Publishing bills itself as "the leading provider of revenue generating Personals content to the newspaper industry."
If Tele-Publishing wins, the decision could have a profound effect on the Web, since many sites now use similar techniques for letting users set up personal pages, from large social networks to, well, Universal Hub.
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Reporter vs. debate organizers
David Bernstein at the Phoenix declares an at-large city council forum on Wednesday "poorly promoted" and lightly attended. Open Media Boston, which helped organize the debate, replies, "oh, yeah?" or words to that effect.
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Reporter to DA: Bring it on
Five years ago, David Bernstein at the Phoenix wrote a long article about the Boston Police Department's really low success rate in getting murderers put away, The Worst Homicide Squad In The Country."
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Layoffs, salary cuts at the Phoenix
Adam Reilly reports, adds people at the top are taking bigger pay cuts than those at the bottom.
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Reilly to Globe: Buy UH, Hire Gaffin
In the Jan. 30 edition of the Phoenix:
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What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
It's Ask The Phoenix Political Reporter Anything Day again. Now, last time, we were a bit sophomoric, so let's ask him about Obama or the state budget crisis or Sam Yoon or something, rather, than, oh, a list of stupid questions. And Zak? That Rule 34 thing? Oh, never mind, you're going to ask about that no matter what I say.
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Phoenix moves into Spanish-language media
The Boston Phoenix has bought El Planeta, one of the four Spanish-language newspapers now serving the Boston area, along with its Web site, TuBoston.com. Terms of the deal were not announced, nor were any plans to come out with a new paper called El Fenix.
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Ask a Phoenix reporter
Dear David Bernstein,
Could God make a boulder so heavy even He couldn't lift it?
Hey! You said we could ask you anything today, and you promised you'd answer all our questions!
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