PJNet » Blogosphere http://pjnet.org Public Journalism Network Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cats that Look like Hitler: Own Your Niche Now http://pjnet.org/post/2017/ http://pjnet.org/post/2017/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:35:36 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/?p=2017 As I said yesterday, I am getting all my leads these days from Twitter, and this one comes from Doc Searls. Cats that look like Hitler
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 an audience. His insight was the guy who specializes in public art in Berlin. Here at PJNet.org I specialize in public journalism. On a really good day if you search public journalism, I will come up first at Google. So that’s my niche.

What’s yours?

Update: It is also the ultimate crowdsourcing site. More than 3,000 cats-that-look-like-Hitler uploads.

]]> http://pjnet.org/post/2017/feed/ 0 Laid Off Journalist? Apply for a Free Pro Blogging Account http://pjnet.org/post/1942/ http://pjnet.org/post/1942/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:30:30 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/?p=1942 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 aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program.

]]> http://pjnet.org/post/1942/feed/ 0 Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt Praises Black Blogosphere http://pjnet.org/post/1841/ http://pjnet.org/post/1841/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:24:18 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/?p=1841 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 in Louisiana.

He contends the White blogosphere — read HuffingtonPost – is less relevant than the ethnic blogosphere.  Finally Howard Witt says mainstream media job cuts might mean the Jena 6 and Shaquanda Cotton type stories, both of which he broke, might not be possible in the future.

It is a 10-minute interview worth watching.

By the way, Leonard and Howard Witt are not related — except that they both care deeply about the fate of great journalism.

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