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By adamg - 9/17/12 - 7:27 pm
The Phoenix's Chris Faraone, down in New York for the Occupy Wall Street anniversary protest, tweets he was among those arrested:
I just got out of jail. Was arrested despite screaming over and over that I'm a journalist.
By adamg - 8/1/12 - 1:26 pm
Layoffs are involved. The new pub will be called the Phoenix, rather than the Boston Stuff or Stuffnix. Key question: Will they still run those "adult services" ads?
By adamg - 5/18/12 - 7:52 am
The shrinking Phoenix Media Group still has one possible ace in the hole - a patent lawsuit against Facebook that, if successful, would give it ownership over one of the most fundamental parts of social networking.
At issue is a patent held by Phoenix subsidiary People2People on the concept of creating a personal page on a Web site.
People2People, then known as Tele-Publishing, Inc., sued Facebook in 2009, because Facebook, of course, lets users build personal pages.
By adamg - 2/10/12 - 6:45 am
Oops, they did it again. The New York Times, which hates when people post copies of its work, posted a copy of a Boston Review article without permission. The Phoenix's Carly Carioli, who called out the Gray Lady for posting a story now owned by the Phoenix just the other day, does the honors again:
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 3:50 pm
The day before ex-Times editor and current Times thumbsucker Bill Keller blasted people who reprint Times content without its permission, the Times reprinted a PDF of a Real Paper story without permission from its current copyright owner, our very own Boston Phoenix. Not just the words, but the actual pages from that long-ago alt-weekly, whose remnants the Phoenix bought.
The Phoenix is not amused:
By adamg - 2/11/11 - 8:10 pm
Boston Phoenix Editor Carly Carioli reports the death of longtime Phoenix editor and writer Clif Garboden.
By adamg - 11/29/10 - 5:49 pm
Phoenix Editor Carly Carioli has a short reply to the Dig item - which we, being good little media sponges, sucked right in - about how Entercom might be thinking of buying and shutting down WFNX to move WEEI to FM:
For the record: it's total bullshit.
No doubt Jeff Lawrence is formulating a response at this very moment.
By adamg - 11/9/10 - 9:53 am
Last fall, the Phoenix sued Facebook, alleging the social network violated patents owned by a Phoenix subsidiary for creating user profiles online. Facebook yesterday returned the favor, suing the Phoenix for alleged violations of patents it owns on equally fundamental parts of the Web.
In its lawsuit, like the Phoenix suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, Facebook charges search engines on the Phoenix Web site that let uses find bands, events and restaurants violate a Facebook patent on a technique for letting users narrow the results of a search query. Facebook also charges its patent is violated by a Phoenix search engine that lets users specify exactly what sort of sex acts they want to see in X-rated videos catalogued by the Phoenix's adult sites.
By adamg - 10/15/10 - 7:19 pm
Blue Mass. Group captures the interchange between David Bernstein kvetching about a young woman asking a gubernatorial debate question about health insurance and the woman, who checked Twitter to see what people were saying about the debate.
By adamg - 8/26/10 - 1:58 pm
The Phoenix awakens to inform us that Bill O'Reilly, yes, that Bill O'Reilly, once wrote for the Phoenix and the Real Paper, and that he interviewed both Linda Lovelace and her director in "Deep Throat."
By adamg - 6/16/10 - 7:30 pm
Dan Kennedy reports and analyzes. In the short term, it means Lance Gould is out and Carly Carioli is in.
By adamg - 6/12/10 - 11:33 am
Earlier this week, you may recall, Boston Police asked newspaper distributors to remove their boxes from areas where hopped-up Celtics revelers/mourners might be tempted to use them to put holes in plate-glass windows.
By adamg - 5/6/10 - 4:09 pm
The Dig breaks the news about firings and stuff on the financial side of the house at the Phoenix.
By adamg - 4/1/10 - 10:21 pm
What Craigslist hasn't killed, federal indictments will: The indictment against five people for running an alleged Asian sex ring shows they were repeat customers of the Boston Phoenix.
For nearly four years, the indictment alleges, two local organizers of the ring regularly bought ads in the Phoenix's "Female Escort" section to advertise the services of prostitutes - some allegedly held against their will - in a network of Boston-area brothels (in addition to using Craigslist):
By adamg - 2/26/10 - 5:13 pm
Boston Phoenix columnist Adam Reilly reports he's moving to WGBH to become an associate producer.
By adamg - 10/22/09 - 5:23 pm
UPDATE: Rush over to your nearest Phoenix box now for a card worth 30 minutes of free time on a porn site. That's what was worth pawing through all those papers for.
On-the-street reporter Matthew files this puzzler:
Over by North Station I witnessed someone pull the entire stack of papers out of the box. He went through each one to pull out a small white-ish piece of paper.
It didn't look like it was the first distributon box he hit either ...
By adamg - 10/9/09 - 8:50 am
In addition to the patent used by Phoenix subsidiary Tele-Publishing, Inc. to sue Facebook this week, the company has a patent (issued in 2000) for a method and apparatus for matching registered profiles.
And in 2005, Tele-Publishing sued several alternative weeklies across the country for allegedly violating both of these patents. The issue never got to a jury because the newspapers, in Washington, Chicago and Sacramento, settled the matter by signing a licensing deal with Tele-Publishing (here's the consent decree).
Here's the abstract:
By adamg - 10/8/09 - 9:50 am
Tele-Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, Inc., yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook, alleging the social network's personal pages violate a patent Tele-Publishing was granted in 2001.
The complaint, filed in US District Court in Boston, seeks unspecified treble damages and an end to Facebook's alleged infringement of Tele-Publishing's patent, which sets out a method by which a remote user can upload images and information to a server to build a personal Web page.
From the Tele-Publishing patent:
By adamg - 9/11/09 - 7:50 am
David Bernstein at the Phoenix declares an at-large city council forum on Wednesday "poorly promoted" and lightly attended. Open Media Boston, which helped organize the debate, replies, "oh, yeah?" or words to that effect.
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