03/29/2007 Meeting Notes
Posted by j, 3/29/07 at 7:25:45 PM.
It seems almost futile to do meeting notes when this blog is going to move soon, but, well, here goes anyway.
Attendees:
Mike Walsh
Jake
Zach
Bill W.
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j
Michael
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Regina
Michael was the only one who showed up for the 6 pm session. When I came in at 6:30 pm, I answered his specific questions about the import.
Agenda
- Introductions
- 3/29: Regina O’Brien of Boston NOW on their new user-fed online-and-offline free daily paper. Boston Globe article on the paper.
- We don’t want to be a typical newspaper.
- We want people to be able to read us in twenty minutes.
- We don’t plan to cover important local news, like the marathon. We want to stretch beyond what the mainstream media reports. We want to snag the news that falls into the gaps.
- 5 day weekly paper
- We’ll go live ~April 17. Everyone else will have the marathon as the leading story. We will not.
- We want to be the voice of the community. What better way to do that than to get the community to participate?
- We want to make it very easy for people to submit content to us.
- http://bostonnowpaper.blogspot.com/
- BostonNow doesn’t want to take people’s copyrights or exclusivity.
- They want to work on a reward system with the community’s input.
- Money is nice, but what about things you can’t buy?
- Press passes
- Interview opportunities with stars
- Opportunity to publish, build portfolio
- Opportunity to share
- The contributors are a mix of experienced journalists, wire pieces, and bloggers.
- ZB: what about relicensing content?
- R: Yes, we want to do that. We have a potential partner interested in redistributing our content plus the blog content. Money will go to the bloggers.
- Plan for growth to other cities.
- MIT Spam Conference March 30, featuring j and Amanda!
- Anything else
