An analogy I’ve been using lately. Journalists are awash at sea. Floating around us are various logs. We are reaching out to them in hopes…
Month: August 2009
Lessons in Crowdfunding
Written for Beth Kanter‘s blog. Almost ten months ago I launched Spot.Us via a Knight Foundation grant which is trying to pioneer “community funded reporting,”…
Stuff I’m Reading: Links for August 22nd
As always I’m doing a lot of plotting and scheming about the future of Spot.Us. As such – I don’t have a long reflective post…
What Kinds of Leaders Does Journalism Need
I recently came back from a week in Big Bear where I volunteer every year as a camp councilor. There are all kinds of reasons…