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!!! [...]

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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.) ________________ Update 8/15/07: Jeremiah Small points out that the [...]

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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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Links for following the Pasadena Now discussion online

Local links have asterisks. Thursday, May 10, 2007 Associated Press article by Justin Pritchard: Calif. Web Site Outsources Reporting Topix: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed Peoria Pundits: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed The Foothill Cities Blog*: PasadenaNow Outsources Local News Coverage (includes the text of the Bangalore Craigslist ad) Editors’ Corner*: Local coverage [...]

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I think they’re adding writers…

LA Observed asks (and Doc Searls quotes): “Um, also, how much could Pasadena Now really be spending on journalists?” (link) I could be wrong, but from what I understand, Pasadena Now is adding writers, not replacing them. James, if you’re reading this, can you comment?

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Uh, wait a minute Mr. Gillmor

Dan Gillmor on Pasadena Now‘s hiring of journalists from India: “For the money he’s paying, he could hire local bloggers. They’d do it better, with more perspectives — and have the advantage of, uh, being there.” (link) Could we really? Would we want to? Do we want to? I don’t think that’s quite what I [...]

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PasadenaNow.com hires two reporters in India to help cover Pasadena news; Eye Level Pasadena approves

The first I saw of this was at Topix: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed Associated Press article: Calif. Web Site Outsources Reporting By Justin Pritchard Local blog posts: Peoria Pundits: It’s official: Local reporting is doomed Foothill Cities: PasadenaNow Outsources Local News Coverage (includes the text of the Bangalore Craigslist ad) Editors’ Corner: Local [...]

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Pasadena Now: Blog Central

Pasadena Now has a new (and beautiful) Blog Central page up with links to local Pasadena blogs (including a link to yours truly).

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