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| Wednesday, June 6, 2007 |
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Later in London 
| | I'm on a plane in a few hours (6am, Eastern) for London. See ya there. |
Dog feed
| | Websites that catered to a niche audience have become an important source of news about the contamination of pet-food ingredients exported from China with an industrial chemical called melamine and related compounds. They are contacted not only by consumers but by reporters, lawyers and pet-food manufacturers eager to reach that burgeoning audience. |
| | This kind of networked collaboration of people who share a deep interest is changing the journalism world, said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and writer on online media. |
| | "The people doing this pet food information hunting used to be on the demand side of journalism. But now they have the tools to supply themselves, so that's what they're doing," Rosen said. |
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