The Editors Weblog gives an overview of Baristanet.com:
Debbie a Montclair, New Jersey Local, saw a desire for news in her community that made her decide to try her hand at online reporting…The target audience of Montclair suburbanites is an intellectual group who”live right think left.” Most Barista users check the site numerous times throughout the [...]
I have been reading the Edge.org debate that began with the Jaron Lanier essay: “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism,” in which he points out the hazards of collective intelligence.
In a rebuttal I was taken by this Clay Shirky quote, that begins:
Since social life involves a tension between individual freedom and group [...]
As you might have guessed, I am not particularly in love with the idea of watching the big guys like YouTube.com get rich on my measly content, but that’s how it works, in part. My two videos have had a total of about 200 views. YouTube reported at the time of its sale:
YouTube currently delivers [...]
Ifra, which bills itself as the world’s largest association for newspaper and media publishing, provides a 26-page online magazine devoted to explaining Web 2.0 for newspapers. It’s a nifty, but also slightly annoying, turn-the-pages online format. It is packed with information.
Web 2.0 and Open Source are terms that are bantered around often without a deep [...]
When Geneva Overholser published her On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change, I ranted here, using the word clueless. When the American Press Institute’s Newspaper Next report was released I made a bit of fun of that.
Now I have to actually face the folks behind both reports thanks to Bill Densmore at Media Giraffe [...]
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.