Welcome to The Growler.....
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Nothing to see yet... But soon enough...
It has been a few years now since the earthquake of the internet took down the economic heart of the newspaper industry. An entire lifetime (in internet time frames) has passed and the first new growth has come and gone. Maybe its time for some long term vision. Forest for the trees and all that...
THE essential component of this project is that journalism is not a sterile science. It is a living organism that survives only with great care and effort and attention to detail and historical perspective and ... with community. Not "A SENSE OF COMMUNITY", but actual interacting people from diverse backgrounds who converge on something that will effect change, or, at least, inform those who seek a wider awareness.
Something is necessary that is deeper than the massaging of bits in order to do less work, commit less energy and spend less time while still making the same dollars that an over-hyped/over-subsidized/artificially elevated system provided?
The internet is a good thing. It is, first and foremost, and equalizer on barriers to entry. Anyone with a good idea has a fighting chance heretofore not possible. It is also the long envisioned catalyst that will form the basis of a new social interaction of complete openness of process and a more direct connection between the government and those governed (can you say SOPA?). More information to more people and more participation by more people.
Here we will slowly craft and tune something worthy of .... our time.
