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We’ve experienced Nintendo, AOL when it was dialup and all the girls in the chat rooms were models, Windows (or MAC), Doom on a 3.5″ floppy, boy bands, iPods, iPhones and college degrees that stuck us with a mortgage in student loans.</p> <p>Blast’s contributors do music, movies, theater, video games, sports, fashion, sex, food and liquor for starters. We write about some of it too.</p> <p>Blast is online. Don’t ask for the print edition.</p> <p>And, seriously folks, we’re not a blog. We do use <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a> as our content management system, but WordPress is SO much more than a blogging platform.</p> <p>Blast is a form of convergence journalism, looking to combine the quality of print journalism (and print journalists) with the convenience and unlimited space of the web. 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border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Sci/Tech Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="bottom" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/joe-sinicki/">Joe Sinicki</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:8;page-break-inside:avoid"> <td width="421" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="width:315.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">______________________________<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:9"> <td width="204" valign="bottom" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Georgia">Photo Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="bottom" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="SpellE"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/aram-boghosian/">Aram Boghosian</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:11;page-break-inside:avoid"> <td width="421" colspan="2" valign="bottom" style="width:315.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">______________________________<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:12"> <td width="204" valign="top" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Contributing Editors<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="bottom" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/mark-scalia/">Mark Scalia</a></span> <i>(<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://www.madehandpoker.com/">poker</a>)</i>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/chris-dematteo/">Chris DeMatteo,</a> <i>(retro)</i>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://www.thisisgodgiven.com/">Bill Palmer</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://otr.blastmagazine.com/">Mike Perry</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:12"> <td width="204" valign="top" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Senior staff writers<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="bottom" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://moviemaven.blastmagazine.com/">Emma Johnson</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/girlinthehuddle">Casey Ramsdell</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/terra">Sachin Seth</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://psa.blastmagazine.com/">Trevor Timm, Kellen Rice</a>, Bradley Ouellette, Daniel Peleschuk <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:13"> <td width="204" valign="top" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Our founding Issue 1 staff Writers<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="top" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/meghan-gargan/">Meghan Gargan</a></span>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/tara-lira/">Tara Lira</a>, <span class="SpellE"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/torrey-meeks/">Torrey Meeks</a>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/bradley-ouellette/">Bradley Ouellette</a>, Bill Palmer, <span class="SpellE"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/meaghan-queally/">Meaghan Queally</a></span>, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090213213207/http://blastmagazine.com/author/david-yue/">David Yue</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:14;page-break-inside:avoid"> <td width="421" colspan="2" valign="top" style="width:315.85pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">______________________________</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:15"> <td width="204" valign="top" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia">2007 Launch Publicity Director<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="top" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">John <span class="SpellE">LeRoy</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow:16"> <td width="204" valign="top" style="width:153.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Georgia">Launch Publicity Managers<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td width="217" valign="top" style="width:162.85pt;border-top:none;border-left: none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; 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