The Wall Street Journal runs a story with the subhead:
Some of the Web’s amateur entertainers are becoming powerful players.
They have a fairly interesting line-up including:
The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments: What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane.
Actually it really is. They [...]
Al Gore’s Current.TV is pushing a program called Current Journalism. Its promo says:
Think that traditional news media is missing the mark? Think you can do a better job? Here’s your chance. Become a part of the Current Journalism program and help redefine news and how it’s told.
Payments for pieces used on TV start at $500.
In [...]
Here is an excellent measure of the power the blogosphere is having on Mainstream Media. Ad Age reports:
Time.com seems ready to embrace its inner snark. Wonkette alum Ana Marie Cox, who joined the magazine this past March as a contributing writer, has been named Washington editor of Time.com. Her appointment is effective July 31.
“While I’m [...]
Yesterday I gave a talk to some 50 college student newspaper editors and managers about Reinventing Newspapers. Most had not heard of citizen journalism projects like OhmyNews, Northwest Voice or MyMissourian. The editors, from small colleges to major universities, were at the annual Management Seminar for College Newspaper Editors hosted by Cox Institute for Newspaper [...]
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced $1.4 million in funding for Link Media, Inc.and OneWorld.net, but a key paragraph in the press release for PJNet.org readers is:
In recent years, tools such as podcasts, streaming video, and blogs have begun to allow unprecedented access to news and information. These new technologies encourage participatory [...]
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.