Volunteer-Driven Local News Services

Call it citizen journalism, collaborative journalism, user generated content, or try to deprecate it by calling it "blogging" - organizing volunteer-driven, collaborative, news collection and sharing in local communities is a great and doable idea. The software and infrastructure is inexpensive (e.g., wordpress on a cloud server) and easy enough to use that loosely knit groups of volunteers can do amazing thing. The Falls Church Times has managed over 1000 posts since it launched and is attracting growing numbers of readers and contributors. http://fallschurchtimes.com/