Avenues that support and foster citizen journalism, the act of people "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information". [Quote from We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis]. Access to Airwaves@ (28) Collaborative Weblogs@ (169) 1. OhmyNews International NEW! - Online newspaper with the motto "every citizen is a reporter". The majority of articles are written by freelance contributors. 2. 43 Things NEW! - A social networking site where users create accounts and then share lists of goals and hopes. 3. Backfence.com NEW! - Citizen journalism site for posting news, information and events. Currently covering California, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia. 4. BrooWaha NEW! - Los Angeles-based project enabling people to write about news events their city. Contributors' input ranked according to popularity. 5. CoMagz Linkadlic Magazine NEW! - Community e-zine of items created and rated by users. Covers art, gadgets, technology, science and the life observations of columnists. 6. Hypergene MediaBlog NEW! - Dealing with participatory journalism, and how audiences shape tomorrow's news. Written by media design consultants Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman. 7. iBrattleboro NEW! - Alternative information source and community forum for Brattleboro, VT. 8. NewsCloud NEW! - A community directory for sharing and commenting on news. Creates tiny url shortcuts for emailing friends about uploaded content. Join to submit stories, videos and blog posts from around the web. 9. Newsvine NEW! - Register to add a news story, comment or write a column. Open source, community news service, which lets members customize the news viewed.

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