The electronic voting machine story on the front page of today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution speaks in part to the power of the peoples voices on the Internet.
The article itself says:
Computer experts at respected universities have sounded the alarm over the potential for high-tech chicanery. Grass-roots activists, leaders of alternative political parties and others [...]
Were my ideas about taking collective weblog action to confront shipping companies and individuals responsible for massive oil spills too extreme? Well apparently the documentarian Mark Schapiro doesn’t think so.
My ideas were triggered by his Frontline/World investigative documentary on PBS about the wreck of the Prestige and its massive oil spill off the northern coast [...]
This post from Tom Warhover, Associate Professor and Executive Editor of Columbia Missourian, at the University of Missouri:
On Monday, official types showed up with the long-awaited announcement of a $31 million donation from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to create the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Its stated goal, beyond giving the Missouri School of Journalism [...]
This from the CyberJournalist.net site:
In an interview with CyberJournalist.net publisher Jonathan Dube, NYTimes.com Editor in Chief Len Apcar discusses the site’s new blog-like political feature, Times on the Trail.
Okay it is not really a blog, at least according to Apcar. However, what’s interesting is that Apcar says:
Ive looked at this kind of page [...]
See the Online Journalism Review roundup on the “adopt a journalist” watchdog movement.
We also wrote about it here in mid-January.
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.