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Re: Friday, July 7, 2006
Sad to hear. Something similar happend to at the Brattleboro (VT) Reformer last year. The good news is that a group of people including my mom started the The Commons, a not-for-profit weekly newspaper. The end is indeed approaching for much of the dead-tree media, except of course for the majors. Getting startup citizen media outlets going is challenging and rewarding. People get upset and they say, "let's start a competing newspaper" and I counter with, "how about a blog and a forum?" and start walking them through Movable Type, Adwords and phpBB. Pretty soon their clue density starts to rise, and they see the power of merging blogs with forums, non-profit status and collaboration without centralized power structure.
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