Your Neighborhood Needs Instant Journalists

By leelefever on November 14, 2007 - 9:23am.

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Even though the Web makes us all feel like citizens of the world, what matters is often local.  Our neighborhoods and neighbors have a huge impact.  There is a brand-new platform, created by Instivate, a company run by one of our long-time friends and neighbors, that aims to give every neighborhood a site for sharing local news. It's called Instant Journalist.

Dave Sifry and a Snapshot of Changing Perception

By leelefever on July 28, 2004 - 5:04pm.

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Sifry's Alerts: Media Frenzy

I thought this was great. Dave Sifry (founder of Technorati) is at the DNC conference and observed this happen:

Just had a few of the journalists present yell into the blogger group, asking, "Hey, does anyone know Kerry's Secret Service codename?" Through the looking glass.

It could happen among traditional jouranlists too, but I thought this could be a snapshot of changing perceptions in action.