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Okay, I lived in Minnesota for 18 years and I am used to Minnesota generosity, the caring spirit, but what Joel Kramer, former editor and publisher of the Star Tribune, is doing is quite extraordinary. He is donating his time, talent and money in the hopes of ensuring that quality journalism thrives in Minnesota via MinnPost, an Internet based [...]

Joel Kramer, former publisher of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, says he has raised $1.1 million, part of it Knight Foundation money, to start the online MinnPost. I will be trying to get an interview with him after the initial wave of interviews passes. Here is a New York Times story, and below is the entire [...]

 I received a comment from Jill Miller Zimon of Writes Like She Talks  explaining how the Plain Dealer was working to make a deal with four bloggers to join their Cleveland.com website. That led me to a Rasmussen Reports phone survey that found: 
Print newspapers are considered the best source for many senior citizens but hardly anybody else. Radio [...]

Since the beginning I have been intrigued by the $100 laptop which soon will be distributed to poor children worldwide.  This is not a mere toy, it could revolutionize education and computing.  After reading Jim Rapoza’s review at eWeek.com, I thought so often we talk about how war spawns new technologies, but in this case MIT’s peaceful [...]

Let’s say our Representative Journalism was a community of people interested in the economic opportunity and development reporter in a relatively economically depressed area. We estimate the total cost for that reporter including salary, benefits, editing support and newsroom overhead costs will be approximately $100,000 a year. To pay for it, the network weaver, [...]