Community Journalism and Open Source Share Common Bond

Posted by rsmiller on Aug 14, 2008 11:07 AM EDT
DaniWeb TechTreasures; By Ron Miller
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Community journalism encourages members of the community to participate in the news process, not just as passive readers, but as active producers of the news itself. This direct connection to the product is similar in many ways to the kind of community building that goes on in open source development.

Perhaps that's why it's not surprising that Patrick Phillips, who is Editor of the Vineyard Voice, a publication based in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (an island off the coast of Cape Cod), has developed a community participation model for his publication while delivering the publication using the open source content management software, Drupal.

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