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posted on
January 8th, 2009
by
Lisa

Unrest In Oakland: Who's on the case?

My friend and fellow citizen-journalism thinker Amy Gahran once asked, "Was Zapruder a journalist?" Zapruder's home-movie camera captured the famous footage of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX. If your answer to that question is yes, then there were an untold number...

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posted on
December 23rd, 2008
by
Lisa

It's Google's World, We're Just Suing Each Other In It

This week brings news that the local papers in the Boston are fighting, and not to break stories, but over who gets to read the first few lines of those stories and where those first few lines are read. Before we begin, I am put in mind of blogger...

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posted on
December 17th, 2008
by
Tish

Don't Forget Your URL! (or else we won't know where you live)

you can enter either an RSS feed URL, or your site URL. Either way, our system will find your RSS feed

Recently, we've had a number of folks enter new placeblogs with

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posted on
December 10th, 2008
by
Lisa
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Why do people read the paper and other stupid questions

This week brings news that the Chicago Tribune will seek bankruptcy protection, and while a lot of people have said a lot of things about this, I am waiting for the final word, which for me comes from two people:  To

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posted on
December 5th, 2008
by
Lisa

Does the future of journalism have a dental plan?

One item that caught my eye in today's global feed from placeblogs across the planet was Adam Klawonn's piece  "Today's News: an argument for nonprofit journalism?"  from his intriguing site The Zonie Report.  His piece was prompted by news that's familiar to most placebloggers across the US: newspaper layoffs at...

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