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Rapporteur Wrap-up – Ben Wagner for Networking Group

Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.

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From Ben Wagner on behalf of the Networking Group.
If “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of endpoints,” then one task as digital journalists is to scale our networks — be they organically-grown, hyperlocal blogs or corporate-driven, international communities — as quickly and effectively as possible.
In a broadly-ranging, nearly [...]

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Merrill Brown – NowPublic

Posted on 27. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.

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Introduction and Narrative: Inspired by user-generated sites like Flickr, NowPublic is a citizen journalism news network with contributors from across the world. As other legendary startups, it was founded in a garage by Michael Tippett, Leonard Brody and Michael Meyers in 2005. At the time the group believed there was no space on the net [...]

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