Had a visit from Jeff Jarvis yesterday, blogger extraordinaire and Blogger Con alum, and we threw around some ideas about using my school’s communications program and some local entities to create a framework for producing local news and feature content for the Web. It’s a great idea, and if it works, it’ll give me a chance to do some blogvangelism to my own physical community, which would be very cool. And, I’ve been talking about local blogging ideas with Warren Buckleitner who is the editor of the Children’s Software Review and the founder of Mediatech, which is a local walk-in computer center above our public library. (He’s got the coolest project running tomorrow and Saturday, by the way…a 33-hour flight sim to commemorate the 77th anniversary of Lindbergh’s trip across the Atlantic “piloted” by a group of local students.)
There are so many possibilities for getting people involved in this that it’s mind boggling. I would be too much fun to work with Jeff and Warren and others to create a real local blogging, videoblogging, moblogging, whateverelseblogging community out here in beautiful (and I mean that) western New Jersey. Now, if I could just find where they keep the “I can make it on three hours of sleep a night” formula…
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