As I reported late yesterday on paidContent, Dan Gillmor's first Grassroots Media project is underway: Bayosphere.com. The first phase -- moving Dan's blog from Typepad to Bayosphere -- was close enough to being accomplished to go live last night. (No RSS feeds yet.) Registration is required for comments, as part of the community-building effort. This makes particular sense for Dan, who has been plagued by a troll and comment spam. I'm all for a high quality-to-noise ratio although registration, particularly when anonymity is allowed, is no guarantee of quality. Good luck on all counts, Dan -- and please give "wretchedaccess.com" a home as soon as you can.
One more thing: I've grown increasingly disconcerted by use of the term "citizen journalism," which seems to suggest that professional journalists -- those of us who do it for a living -- aren't citizens. Grassroots media works in some instances, as do a few other terms (including we-media, as in Dan's book "We The Media" ), but I'm going with "p2p media" or "peer media" for now.
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