[Boston-print] Ideas for a name.

[Kate Crockford]

i think i like open ink. 'the usual' is catchy...with good design i think
it could be a winner.

kate


>      Hey folks, this is Svea from the IndyMedia DNC Video project.
>
>      During the biggest anti-Iraq war protest in Boston, the IMC Print
> project distributed several thousand copies of a 4 page newspaper
> called the "Boston Free Press".
>
>      We were asked by several folks who took the paper if it had any
> relation to a local college paper with the same name. Obviously we
> weren't, but there was an association that they made with another
> publication when they saw the title of the paper.
>      That said, there may be people who will recognize that name from the
> War protest, even though there was a limited run. Robert prolly has a
> better estimate on circulation
>
>      As an outsider viewpoint, the name "Boston Shadow Press" stands out
> as a catchy and clever title.
>
>      Cheers!
>
>      Svea.
>
>
>
> Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
> _______________________________________________
> Boston-print mailing list
> Boston-print at lists.indymedia.org
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-print
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it
> out!_______________________________________________
> Boston-print mailing list
> Boston-print at lists.indymedia.org
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-print
>


-- 
"pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will"
Antonio Gramsci