Did you wonder where your Boston NOW person was this morning? The commuter paper, which promised to bring bloggers together with standard print media, has folded. The Globe's business ticker said the paper shut down "immediately" today due to "tough economic conditions being faced by its primary investors in Iceland." Boston NOW's own website (link via b0st0n LJ) points the finger squarely at the land of Bjork: "This healthy, growing 119,000-circulation daily is suddenly compelled......

When it comes to the battle of Boston's daily papers, we didn't think that the Metro was in trouble. Sure, the daily papers aren't meaty, but they help while wile away the time on a subway ride. Boston NOW has also had some problems with getting the little things right, such as an unfortunate boo-boo on its front page after the New Hampshire primaries. But the Metro's parent company wants to sell Metro Boston. That......