[Boston-print] Ideas for a name.

[Pete Stidman]

OK.  I have a bunch of suggestions, including the ones
I already mentioned, either the Boston Independent or
simply the Boston INDY.  and a new one I think is
good. "Open Ink"  I like this cause the title implies
community involvement, consensus, forum and democracy.

Whatever name we choose I strongly feel it should not
identify with any certain movement, environmental,
ideological or otherwise.  A word like independent
implies that we are not corporate.  Another theme that
I cannot come up with a good word for would be
something like forum, convergence, or gathering. 
Still another concept would be the idea of having a
voice, we are like an amplifier or a spreader of words
from independent sources.  Our name must be acceptable
to the greatest variety of readers.  Our aim is to
become the media, and the print project was begun with
this idea as a motivation and a goal.  The name should
be usable for a daily, and we should think of large
audiences, not specific ones.  

Somehow we have to break out of the realm of the
"political" specialty paper and into the "popular"
realm.  News.  

I am here working on this paper because I see
opportunities beyond what even New York Indymedia has
done with their paper, so names that would limit this
progress, this ability to make it in larger audiences,
would make it hard for me to get the full advantage of
our efforts and my own. 

In the general public people make distinctions between
the genres of political and just a newspaper and it is
often based on a name.  Even a name like the Metro
because it is widely acceptable would seem appropriate
to me.  We want people to pick it up who normally
wouldnt.

In the interest of brainstorming heres some more with
asterisks on the ones I really like:

*Open Ink*
Boston Free Press
The Eye
Open Boston
Boston Standard
Boston Current
Boston Debut
Ink Coalition
Shadow Press
Fair Account
The Usual
The Boston Small Potatoe Farmer

(OK they can't all be winners...)

Let me know what you all think, everybody should throw
in their opinion on this.

-Pete





-Pete  


	
		
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