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Online Journalism Review article, To Their Surprise, Bloggers Are Force for Change in Big Media, is worth a read.

One of the community sites we watch is Northfield.org, which chronicles what’s happening in Northfield, Minnesota. We watch it because Griff Wigley, our technical guru and civic organizing consultant, is the mastermind behind it and because it is innovative.
Today it got touted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune (registration required) in a story about a [...]

Here is one item from the report How Americans Get in Touch With Government from the Pew Internet & American Life series:
Internet users were explicitly asked whether they had ever used the Internet or email to try to change a government policy or affect a politician’s vote. About one-third (30%) said they had done [...]

The Herald-Sun and heraldsun.com in Durham, North Carolina, have offered all local candidates the opportunity to have a weblog during the election period. There are about 100 candidates and so far about eight have accepted the offer.
Thanks to Jeff Jarvis for the pointer.

Christopher Allbritton is back in Iraq. In NewYorkMetro.com:
He refers to himself as the “crazy bastard trying to cover the war” and notes that he’s acquired a following of 35,000 readers who have sent him more than $20,000 to keep his blog, back-to-iraq.com, afloat.
Here’s the start of today’s post at his blog Back to Iraq:
Sorry [...]