About.com's citizen journalist army
San Jose Mercury News columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor says our readers know more than we do, which I think is often true. Tapping the collective brainpower of citizens is a lofty task, for sure, but one with tremendous potential for transforming the media and the way we get our information.
This is one of the many reasons there is such buzz these days around "participatory journalism" -- the growing practice of non-journalists creating content for the masses. And one of the grandest and most successful experiments in this area, About.com, has just gotten better...
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