Pasadena Now is looking for local bloggers to review restaurants

James Macpherson of Pasadena Now emailed me this weekend (and I’m posting this with his permission):

I wanted to ask you if you know of 2-3 bloggers who are foodies who would agree to review Pasadena restaurants for me… a lot — like WEEKLY.
Advantage: They can get into any restaurant and eat for free!!!
Advantage: [...]

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Home delivery

Water drops on my copy of the Pasadena Star-News

The morning was still cool.

I walked out in my bare feet, and pieces of pine needles stuck to them.

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The Pasadena Star-News now comes to my house in physical form

I’m a subscriber
I’m taking a couple of journalism classes at PCC because I think it will help me become a better blogger. One of the classes requires students to subscribe to a physical newspaper, so I chose the Pasadena Star-News. I read the Star-News (as well as Pasadena Now, of course) online already. I like [...]

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PCC Courier online

The Pasadena City College Courier is using WordPress for its new website. Comments are enabled (although you need to register with the site before you can comment), articles have permalinks, and the site publishes an RSS feed.

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Night time walk along Colorado Boulevard

Hats after hours at World Hats Mart

Rubber duckies in the window of the California School of Culinary Arts

Cliff’s Books was open

Pasadena Star-News offices

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Pasadena Now enables comments on its stories!

I just noticed that Pasadena Now has comment fields in the bottom portions of its new stories. I don’t know of any other comprehensive Pasadena news source that is doing this. This is a big step in the direction of encouraging active community discussion about local politics, programs and events. Kuddos to James Macpherson and [...]

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Pasadena Now activates RSS feed!

Pasadena Now has activated its RSS feed! The feed contains article titles only, but this is groundbreaking. It looks like Pasadena Now is the first comprehensive Pasadena news source to offer an RSS feed of any of its content.
(Wondering what RSS is? More info here.)
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Update 8/15/07: Jeremiah Small points out that the Pasadena Star-News publishes [...]

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Pasadena Star-News asks, “What can civic leaders, police and residents do to stop the bloodshed?”

There’s a special section called To stop the killing over at the Pasadena Star-News website with links to stories about the recent gang violence in our community, video footage from the march earlier this month, and letters from residents about what should be done. The Star-News invites us to participate in the conversation:
“E-mail your hopes [...]

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Great ideas

Great ideas by Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 license)
This cartoon at Gaping Void today made me think about all the uproar online about James Macpherson of Pasadena Now’s hiring of Indian writers to report on Pasadena city council meetings.

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David Sucher of City Comforts weighs in on Pasadena Now’s new writers

City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village by David Sucher
City Comforts blog: Distance sometimes provides objectivity
Sucher’s City Comforts is one of my favorite community building books. It shows how to arrange city space to encourage neighborly community interaction.

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