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I'm watching the Networked Journalism Summit conference on GroundReport TV.

As a J-school grad and blogger I'm interested in newspapers and what they do on the web, but usually what I try to glean from conversations like this is the related issue of what magazines -- especially verticals -- are doing on the web. That twist never gets talked about as much. Rex Hammock covers it better than others I'm aware of. He's there in NY today.

Later: It doesn't look like GroundReport is covering the conference wall to wall. I'll try to locate a service that is.

Still later: From the chat box on GroundReport:

Drew Geraets: hi, i'm drew with the cuny graduate school
of journalism...we'll have afternoon sessions held here
at the school webstreamed...that link will be posted on
newsinnovation.com later on

Jordan: this is Jordan from GroundReport-- we've had
some technical issues at the Times and will resume our
broadcast this afternoon at CUNY

And

According to a tweet from Dave, there's an IRC backchannel on irc.freenode.net -- join #netjny. I don't get using IRC these days. Why not web chat? Sometimes I think when I see Wikipedia powerusers or developer groups using IRC they're using it like a black box. In this case, I guess it's just the traditional backchannel medium?

Chuck Olsen and partners seem to be doing some good things with citizen journalism in Minneapolis.

The local TV news recently covered TheUpTake.org, which teaches ordinary folk how to do news. Watch until the end. The anchor's comment cracked me up. She remarks to the reporter that, without training, online newsies just go flying off on their own personal agendas.

Here's what made me giggle. I put it through my personal Amy filter and reframed the statement: I write in favor of ending the war on my personal blog because... I'm not aware that I'm not supposed to?

Inspiring story of the nimbleness of citizen reporting via Doc Searls: the Chicago Tribune story on a train mishap came up lacking, but a Chicago blogger witnessed it and tweeted the whole thing.