4 posts from April 2008

Welcome to the JCWB's latest -- an experiment in Citizen Journalism. For starters, we hold no illusions that we are professional journalists -- we are every day citizens. Your next door neighbors, your co-workers, your friends. What we lack in experience we hope to make up for in enthusiasm. And we hope to take advantage of having our ears close to the ground, and bring you the stories that the professional news outlets -- the Goliaths -- might just miss. They might not be the most glamorous stories, nor the most high-profile -- but that doesn't mean that they're any less newsworthy, or any less real.

Our name -- Davey News -- is a tip of the hat to the book "An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths." We're living in an age where tools like the JCWB, the Wiki, our various Blogs, and websites like NewzJunky, give the ordinary citizen a voice. We hope that our voice finds an audience -- as well as other like minded citizens who'd like to try their hand at Citizen Journalism. If you are interested, please do get in touch -- experience not necessary!

MÊL

Not much else to add to that -- MÊL

For those of you reading this group blog, you might find it easier to read everyone's posts by clicking here -- it's just a different view.  And if there are comments on a post, you can see that in the header and click on a link to easily view them.

While not a true substitute for the JCWB, the blog does at least provide us with an outlet when the board is temporarily down.  It's a change of pace -- one I am hoping that, over time, will become more integrated with the JCWB. 

Meanwhile, we've got 4 members who have decided to jump into the field of citizen journalism -- I'm looking forward to see what they come up with.  Mama Moose, I don't know if you saw my post regarding your assignment -- I will forward you some E-Mails later which may help you out.  I'll be working on a commercial for our "newz" blog this week -- hopefully we'll be able to unveil the whole thing sometime next week.

Meanwhile, we're still down.  We got an E-Mail from our host advising us of an upgrade right around the time we went down -- the timing is a little suspicious, so we're waiting to see if that's what happened.  I'll post another update later today.  MÊL

Just to confirm -- and to answer those who have E-Mailed -- it appears that we are experiencing technical difficulties.  We'll do what we can to get us up and running as soon as possible.  MÊL