While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink. The blog items, which appear in gray boxes, are still relatively few, but Wilpers said he thought the feature would grow.
Lawrence Lessig, the founder of the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School, said that BostonNow's business model was not unique. "The traditional company is one that's just making money selling widgets or iTunes," he explained. "The Internet exploded a sharing economy with things like Wikipedia where people are doing work that creates a lot of value, not for money but just because it's their hobby. We've seen a pattern of hybrid companies like this trying to figure out ways to leverage that for a profit."
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