As I said yesterday, I am getting all my leads these days from Twitter, and this one comes from Doc Searls.
It’s a website called Cats that Look like Hitler. It’s very amusing. Plus, there is a lesson there that Jeff Jarvis talked about eons ago. If you find the right niche, you can build [...]
This from yesterday’s New York Times:
The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog [...]
The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt, in a video interview with Leonard Witt of the Public Journalism Network (PJNet.org), tells of the power of the Black blogosphere in saving the then 14-year-old Shaquanda Cotton from seven years in jail for shoving a hall monitor and then how that same Afro-American blogosphere drove the Jena 6 protest [...]
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.