What would you call it?
By jhatcher on Feb 5, 2010 in Help Wanted
Hi PDD people. I teach journalism at UMD where a group of students is working on creating a news web site that will focus on telling community-focused stories from around Duluth. We’re brainstorming for the right name and I thought I’d throw it out there and see what ideas this group might come up with. In the past it’s been called Duluth Community News, but the students think that is weak. Suggestions? Once we’re up and running we’ll share our stories here on PDD and hopefully invite this community to help us discover other stories to tell.
Students at Winona State just launched Winona360 which sounds similar to your project. Duluth360?
http://edutech.tlt.winona.edu/winona360/
Dull Youth Newsbuzz
D-Town Trollfag Blaarg Blaarg Blaarg
Delusion News
Port Town Northland Arrowhead of the Lakes Harbor News Stories About News.
Duluth Citizen’s Blog
Stories by (near, on, in, under, next to) the Lake
I like the first one best.
Duluth Allegory: Speak with low voices and sit on big leather chairs with fine jackets and telling beards.
Observations Duluth: wear monocles with suspenders and carry large steampunk telescopes.
Old Saw Duluth: Show your piqued interest in the woods whilst in plaid.
Duluth Narrative: Give presentations as vhs-in-tv-cart renditions of a boring book tv-like monologue.
Tall Tales of Tuluth: Build a story-core type booth in Leif Erickson and invite locals to tell their stories. Make sure interviewer has never before been to Duluth.
Old Sock Drawer of Yarns: Duluth: Walk around meticulously discerning who came from who, and definitely being able to tell the finns, but not telling them much.
Shore Sketches: Record video of stories gathered around campfires, peer review writeups then review the tapes of the night in fast motion.
Ha ha, Winona 360, we could be Duluth-Super 270, because the other arc is just lake!
how about NVOL for “Nice view of lake” you see it in all apartment and home classifieds.
http://www.austin360.com/
hmmm….
The Hills
Duluth Truth
Snowbank
Duluth New Tribune
Up the Down Staircase
This Duluth Life
Ashes of Duluth Flags
Bob Dylan Slept Here
Bob Dylan Didn’t Sleep Here
Twin Ports Report
Twin Ports Retort
Superior Sentinel
Deep Water
This is why I love PDD. Thanks for all these ideas. Keep them coming, please.
John
How about Duluth Heat: it’s the word on the street, baby.
I like the Duluth360 idea. Or… Duluth24/7 Or… Duluthpress or…???
Let us know and we’ll be reading…
What Baci said.
The Deep North
Norwegian Riviera Newshaus 720
Fellas it’s too rough to feed ya
Interstate Terminus Newscent…zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Husker Duluth
Arrow Head-Trip Quotidian
In Range
Helvitis Koskinen’s Amputee Colloquium
twin ports soapbox
The Hills Have Ears
Knife Fight With Words
I Am the Slow Dancing Story Blog
uDuNews
Gonk: “Let’s call this co-operation”
Geefil: “No, let’s call it Shirley.”
The Duluth Insider
Discuss
Best Kept Secret
The North Coaster
DuNorth
Berv, I say those two lines ALL THE TIME.
Out of Range
The Dusu.
DuYouknow
Port Town Tabloid
Scoops
Arrowhead Industrialisti
Don’t call me Shirley.
Dude. Duluth!
Doomed
I like Baci’s, too.
Duluthitude.
Duluthalicious.
The Hillside Chronicles.
Tilttown Times
For Dulunatics Only
Dulunatic Talk
1. Most of these ideas are horrible, enough already.
2. If a class of college journalism students can’t figure out a name for their website, we got problems.
Hey Admiral, I think it’s called something like “community engagement.” Even if the suggestions don’t float your boat, the point is to spark the idea that whatever the final web site is called, it’s meant to be a community resource (kinda like PDD). It’s a good thing, even if the specific name ideas are horrible or jokes and such…
so…
A Great Newsblog on a Great Lake (ha!)
Water World Words
Warm News from a Cold Front
There’s Snow News Like Good News
more…more….democracy is best served by more voices, not fewer.
To jhatcher:
The site sounds like a great addition to the local infosphere--looking forward to what your students come up with, whatever name you all settle on. Any likelihood of collaboration with UWS, Scholastica, Northland College, Lake Superior College, Fond du Lac College, Mesabi Range Community College, etc. to get more wide coverage and harness all the young sled dogs in our local culture-sphere?
heh heh .. you said infosphere … are those like boobies?
adam <3
Yeah that was supposed to be a heart. It works on Facebook. Sorry.
What about “(place name) stories” using whichever place name you choose (Duluth, Twin Ports, Northland, Dusu, Up North, whatever). I kind of hate “Twin Ports” and “Northland,” but I also feel sorry for everyone who doesn’t actually live in Duluth when I just say ‘Duluth.’
How about Aeriel Views
It’s Duluth, Dammit.