A Citizen Journalism Breakthrough in South Carolina?
It's the Bluffton Today site and newspaper, which asserts:
"This is a new kind of community website that joins with the Bluffton Today newspaper in a mission of helping Bluffton come together as a community.
"With your help, we will provide a friendly, safe, easy to use place on the Web for everyone in Bluffton to post news items, create a unified community calendar, and share photos, recipes, opinions.
"This is a place where you take the lead in telling your own story. As a registered BlufftonToday.com user, you get your own weblog, your own photo gallery, and the ability to post entries in special databases such as events and recipes.
"In return, we ask that you meet this character challenge: be a good citizen and exhibit community leadership qualities. It's a simple and golden rule. Act as you would like your neighbors to act."
Posted about by Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism who misstates the name of the town as "Buffton" - was it all those lifeguard photos at the site that confused him? Thanks to Michael Madison for bringing this to my attention.
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