A great-looking PBS project to promote citizen journalism, to discuss practices and tools.
MediaShift Idea Lab is a group weblog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each author won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to blog on a topic related to [...]
From Star News columnist Chris Mazzolini’s (resuscitated?) blog:
NEW HANOVER COUNTY
Outside of Wilmington, the only New Hanover County voters heading to the polls today are those in the three beach towns. The mayors’ races in Wrightsville Beach and Kure Beach are uncontested, but there’s a heated battle in Carolina Beach where two town council members want [...]
Not sure about where you live, but there are a smattering of folks in my neighborhood that are still watering their lawns, another instance of inconsiderate behavior that we’ve cited before. Now at least I can warn them about losing a few Benjamins. This is from WECT:
WILMINGTON — The warning period for violating Wilmington’s mandatory [...]
Speaking of place-blogging and Wilmington, UNCW journal Ecotone editor’s blog discusses its foray into the blogosphere with copious references to Wilmington and to the idea of place here:
http://ecotoneblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/blogosphere-as-place.html
The new issue of Ecotone, according to this blog, is due out this month.
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[where: Wilmington, NC]
Interesting business notice in the Stars News yesterday:
RALEIGH | In its infancy, Burt’s Bees served as a niche developer for the earth-friendly consumer. Now, courted by household goods giant Clorox, it’s going mainstream with nearly a billion-dollar price tag.
Clorox, the maker of its namesake bleach, Brita water filters and other grocery-store name brands, said Wednesday [...]
I’ve been checking out a local/national service after hearing an interview with one of the founders on netsquared: freecycle.org is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.”
The stuff changing hands is interesting. So is the dialect that springs up around the quick [...]
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Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for Wilmington, NC.
Eat your ‘Heart’ out this weekend
… good one. Details: 8 p.m. July 29-31 andA 5 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Brown Coat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace St., downtown Wilmington. $10, $5 for students. 341-0001 or www.guerillatheatre.com .
Brunswick Boys and Girls Club may get land [...]
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