BostonNow???

[trtls.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know where BostonNow Newspaper has gone?

Comments

[yendi]

It was shut down earlier this year when the overseas company that owns it decided to change their strategy (even though it had been profitable).

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Newark.

I kid, I kid.

Its over and done.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

It was a victim of the troubled Icelandic economy.

No, I am not kidding. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003789406)

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Link is "null," like Boston Now.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Well, carp.

The burden of that article was that BostonNOW was owned by an Icelandic media conglomerate which had cash-flow problems due to the troubled Icelandic economy, and they decided just to shut it down rather than try to sell it.

[ron_newman]

that's been gone for more than two months!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

And it tells you how influential and important it was that only now has the OP missed it.

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Blame Iceland!

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

It wasn't ever as good as the Metro, in my opinion (though I like the Metro mostly for its crossword, which stands on the knife's edge between 'challenging' and 'gradually making me bald from all the hair-tearing it makes me do'). I'm mostly sorry that the people involved lost their jobs. Particularly the folks who used to pass it out in the subway stations, who I imagine needed the work and didn't have a whole lot of revenue coming in even with that gig.

But yeah, it's been gone for a while.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

you know something totally sucks when someone says "it wasn't as good as the metro."

:p

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

I literally am laughing out loud here.

"Its no Metro" is my new way of saying something just isn't that great.

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

I like the crossword! ...shut up! :P

Okay, it's not like the Metro's going to win any Pulitzers either, no.

[aki.livejournal.com]

And it had THREE sudokus!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'm jumping on this bandwagon.

[ron_newman]

You got there before me ;->

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

The Metro crossword is computer generated. The crossword in the Now was generated by a human (Stanley Newman, IIRC) and did wordplay and themes (poorly, sometimes). It was probably the only thing about that paper that was better than the Metro.

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

Very, very poorly. The computer generation of the Metro crossword explains why it seems to reuse clues and words more frequently than I like, but I felt that the Now crossword relied more on pop culture than vocabulary, featured clues that were at times deliberately misleading and generally the themes weren't as entertaining as the creator thought they were.

But to each his own.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

i think it went to somewhere around 4 months ago :P

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

LOL I never noticed...except there have been fewer people trying to force free reading material on me lately...

[righteousness-1.livejournal.com]

I've also noticed less trash since its demise.

[smazzle.livejournal.com]

I thought BostonNOW had the right idea - it was bridging the gap between the online world and the offline world (more at http://volunteer-boston.blogspot.com/2008/04/bostonnow-is-no-more.html).

It was a little sensationalist - kind of reminded me of the Herald vs the Globe... but I enjoyed reading it, and getting published.

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

I liked that idea, but it didn't ever really seem to work out that well in effect. I always got the sense that it was more of a gimmick to get readers to write the newspaper so they didn't have to hire as large a staff.

[aki.livejournal.com]

Or bother to pay for a wire service.

[o0dano0o.livejournal.com]

The only thing I think I'll miss from it is the scavenger hunt, and maybe the crossword.

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

There was a scavenager hunt!?

[o0dano0o.livejournal.com]

I think it was a quarterly thing for 6 weeks. They would have a clue in the paper, and a clue online. If unfound after a week, they moved it and increased the prize.

I spent a few hours with friends earlier this year scouring Porter with no luck. THE PRIZE HAD TO BE THERE!! :P

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty awesome. Bummer I missed it.

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

I sure don't miss them! My street used to get BostonNows dumped on our doorsteps. Some neighbors and I called to complain, they stopped, then it started up again, another round of complaints... so good riddance.