MediaGiraffe talk:Community Portal

I run a blog priced for elites. It's called www.statehousenews.com. It's $48 a week. Our many subscribers adore us because we practice traditional journalism, right down the middle, produced by professionally trained journalists. I'm thinking I'll be out of business in about eight years. Hmmm. I'm also having trouble adjusting to a media environment consisting of everyone expressing their opinion at once, laced with obscenity.

At the same time, I run a citizen's news tool for free: www.issuesource.org. (It also lives on www.mass.gov - the official state web site.) It's a chronology of important stories in state government - but "important" is defined by the local MSM. I'm wondering whether to import news created by the blogosphere, but don't trust what I read there. So I'm hoping the conference will be a mind-expanding experience! If you have some hopeful words or ideas, please introduce yourself to me - look for bright orange hair and seersucker!!! --Craig Sandler