The Denver Business Journal reported earlier this week:
Suburban newspaper publishers have a few cheers but mostly jeers for the Denver Newspaper Agency’s (DNA) new YourHub.com publications and Web sites for more than 40 metro-area communities.
Here is one opinion:
“It’s the biggest joke I’ve ever seen,” said Bob Sweeney, owner of the Villager [...]
It didn’t take a long for a substantial Hurricane Katrina entry to develop at Wikipedia.
Thanks to Smart Mobs for the pointer.
I went to the NOLA.com weather site to check up on hurricane Katrina’s progress. Instead of a warning saying run for the hill country, here is the first thing I saw at the top of the site:
Become a citizen photojournalist!
Snapped a good storm photo? Shot any street flooding?
Submit your photo to NOLA’s new user galleries! [...]
The introductory paragraph at the online london-eating says:
Welcome to london-eating the definitive guide to restaurants in London. Only london-eating lets you deliver your personal verdicts with fresh updates every day. A restaurant overrated? Dish the dirt. A restaurant overlooked? Sing its praises. It’s your guide, just keep it clean!
The Guardian writes:
Since its launch [...]
This from Smart Mobs: John Langford, an AI researcher at University of Chicago, compares the methods of cooperation of academia and open source programmers, and points to differences where each could learn from the other.
On similarities he writes:
Much of academia is a gift culture”: whoever gives the most is most respected.
About why academics [...]
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.