Placeblogs and Placeblogger.com
At the J-Lab Citizens Media Summit at the Online News Association conference, Lisa Williams, the founder of H20Town.com, said gaps in coverage have "created an ecological niche" for sites like hers and hundreds of local "placeblogs."
She says running the site has given her a whole new feeling of really living in a community.
She discussed the notion of "placeblogs," which she describes as something that provides sustained attention to a place over time that are about the "lived experience" of a place of real people - which is different from traditional "news."
She says it can be done by obne person, a defined group of people or with community contribution.
She says that she's found about 650 local "placeblogs" around the US.
She's building a site called Placeblogger.com that indexes all of these sites, in parynership with the Center for Citizen Media.
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