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Blueprint-links

2008-12-24T17:37:24Z

70.17.138.237: /* What others are saying about IVP */

[[Image:Blueprint-photos.jpg|thumb|600px|left|[http://flickr.com/photos/33134655@N06/sets/72157610817325064/ View all photos by Josh Rowan]]][[Image:Ivp-rji-logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[http://informationvalet.wordpress.com The Information Valet Project]]]]

<H4>PRIVACY . . . ADVERTISING . . . COMMERCE . . . PERSONALIZATION</H4>
=<b>Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy -- post-event links and resources</b>=
===Building a collaborative, shared-user network<br><br>December 3-5, 2008<br>Reynolds Journalism Institute<br>Columbia, Missouri===
[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint SUMMIT HOME PAGE] . . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-program PROGRAM/SCHEDULE] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants WHO'S INVOLVED] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
<hr>

==KEY PARTICIPATION LINKS==
====[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources Tweet, chat, web wiki -- the convening resources]====
*Learn about the collaboration resources we used -- and tried to use -- to foster dialogue before, during and after the summit, including [http://wordpress.com/tag/ivp-blueprint-summit/ Blog reports] by Emily Sussman, [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23infovalet "tweets" via Twitter] from on- and off-site participants, LiveBlogging by Chuck Peters on [http://www.newshare.com/pdf/blueprint-live-blog-12-04-08.pdf THURSDAY], and on [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=b75f5507b2&height=550&width=470 FRIDAY], plus general [http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Information+Valet%22?type=search&authority=a4&language=en blog references.] Check (and add to) our page of other [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links GENERAL LINKS].
<hr>
====VIDEO: Archived streams of "Blueprint" discussions====
*[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/962984 Friday morning "what we learned/next steps" session]
<hr>

====What others are saying about IVP====
*[http://newspapertiger.com/2008/12/23/information-valet-wish-id-been-there Sharon Hall of the Suburban Newspapers Assn. references Greg Schermer's talk]
*[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/would_you_pay_for_a_web_app_that_delivers_the_news.php#comments Sarah Perez, writing at ReadWriteWeb]
*[http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200812/1592/ "A new web application that might pay for news,"] by David Westphal
*[http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/browse_thread/thread/0165ffff3d85d06d# Donica Mensing suggests how IVP might work locally] (click on 'show quoted text')
*[http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com/2008/12/inventing-information-valet.html Martin Langeveld reports on "IVP-Blueprint"]
*[http://timwindsor.com/2008/12/08/can-an-infovalet-guide-us-to-a-business-model/ Tim Windsor: Opening Google/Facebook logins?]
*[http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/information-in-the-first-instance/ Chuck Peters on InfoValet and community information utilities]
*[http://journalism.missouri.edu/graduate/2008-12.pdf "Building a new information highway" (Missouri J-school newsletter PDF)]
*[http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/7030/ Bonnie Obremski describes her "RepJ" project role (WITH VIDEO)]
*[http://getanewbrowser.com/2008/12/bill-densmore-on-network-journalism/ Densmore on network journalism]

====Related concept links====
*[http://www.howardowens.com/2008/walter-lippmann-on-a-free-press/ Walter Lippmann on paying for the news]

====Related event links====
*The program: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-program
*Related resources: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources
*The Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*The video archive (after Dec. 12): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/infovalet
*The #Infovalet Twitter tag feed: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23infovalet
*The InfoValet Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/
*The RJI Fellows Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/rji-fellows/
*The Information Valet Project blog: http://www.informationvalet.org
*Use the tag "ivpblueprint" to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ivpblueprint tag any photos you shoot]
*FLASH ANIMATION: [http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html How the Information Valet Service could work]

==BACKGROUND AND IDEAS ==
===Key discussion topic: Organizing the IVP===
*An initial challenge faced by the IVP is to construct an ownership form for the shared-user network which will be stable, fundable and yet not subject to the challenges of either charitable or Wall Street control. Vermont attorney Tom Moody is among legal scholars advancing the "L3C" as a possible solution.<BR>
READ MORE: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources-l3c

===The MIT gathering report ===
*In June, 2007, Bill Densmore, of the Media Giraffe Project and Henry afasfasdf, at MIT, convened a one-day discussion among a dozens scholars, entrepreneurs and news-industry veterans to talk about what might sustain journalism in a web-centric world.<BR>READ THE SESSION REPORT: http://mediagiraffe.org/mit

===Iowa-based news CEO's blog on innovation===
*Chuck Peters is CEO of the company which owns the Cedar Rapids ''Gazette'' plus printing and other subsidiaries. He'll be joining us at "Blueprint" and he's been following and seeding innovation in the former newspaper industry. [http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/ Here's his blog.] Peters attended a [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/near-crisis-for-newspapers-calls-for-urgent-action-execs-told/ 50-executive summit at the American Press Institute] and [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=9d7d485abd&height=550&width=470 covered it live with Twitter.]
PETERS' BLOG: http://cpetersia.wordpress.com

===Former Massachusetts publisher's ''News after Newspapers''===
*Martin Langeveld was the No.2 person at the family-owned ''Berkshire Eagle'' for more than a decade, then publisher of two MediaNews Group Inc. dailies. He writes his blog from near Brattleboro, Vt.
FIND IT: http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com

===Transforming newspapers: Unified technology needed===
*"To be audience-centric, newspapers need to find a unified technology that helps them to get to know their readers from every interaction that they have . . . ," writes Don Oldman in a Nov. 26, [http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2008/November/nt/11-08_oldham-transform.htm ''Newspapers & Technology'' column.]

==OTHER BACKGROUND LINKS==

*LINK TO [http://www.ivpblueprint.org SUMMIT HOME PAGE]
*WHO'S PARTICIPATING: http://tinyurl.com/62yazu
*KEY BLOG: http://tinyurl.com/6nbz9q
*NEWS (pdf): http://newshare.com/blueprint.pdf
*MORE NEWS: http://tinyurl.com/6jtjpr
*SLIDESHOW: http://tinyurl.com/569au7
*CONCEPT VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/6zguf8
*FLASH ANIMATION: http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html
*NINE-MINUTE VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/5k8qw8
*ABOUT REYNOLDS: http://tinyurl.com/6zkzr4
*FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid33838408751
*TWITTER: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/infovalet

Blueprint-links

2008-12-24T17:36:58Z

70.17.138.237: /* What others are saying about IVP */

[[Image:Blueprint-photos.jpg|thumb|600px|left|[http://flickr.com/photos/33134655@N06/sets/72157610817325064/ View all photos by Josh Rowan]]][[Image:Ivp-rji-logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[http://informationvalet.wordpress.com The Information Valet Project]]]]

<H4>PRIVACY . . . ADVERTISING . . . COMMERCE . . . PERSONALIZATION</H4>
=<b>Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy -- post-event links and resources</b>=
===Building a collaborative, shared-user network<br><br>December 3-5, 2008<br>Reynolds Journalism Institute<br>Columbia, Missouri===
[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint SUMMIT HOME PAGE] . . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-program PROGRAM/SCHEDULE] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants WHO'S INVOLVED] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
<hr>

==KEY PARTICIPATION LINKS==
====[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources Tweet, chat, web wiki -- the convening resources]====
*Learn about the collaboration resources we used -- and tried to use -- to foster dialogue before, during and after the summit, including [http://wordpress.com/tag/ivp-blueprint-summit/ Blog reports] by Emily Sussman, [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23infovalet "tweets" via Twitter] from on- and off-site participants, LiveBlogging by Chuck Peters on [http://www.newshare.com/pdf/blueprint-live-blog-12-04-08.pdf THURSDAY], and on [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=b75f5507b2&height=550&width=470 FRIDAY], plus general [http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Information+Valet%22?type=search&authority=a4&language=en blog references.] Check (and add to) our page of other [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links GENERAL LINKS].
<hr>
====VIDEO: Archived streams of "Blueprint" discussions====
*[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/962984 Friday morning "what we learned/next steps" session]
<hr>

====What others are saying about IVP====
*[http://http://newspapertiger.com/2008/12/23/information-valet-wish-id-been-there Sharon Hall of the Suburban Newspapers Assn. references Greg Schermer's talk]
*[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/would_you_pay_for_a_web_app_that_delivers_the_news.php#comments Sarah Perez, writing at ReadWriteWeb]
*[http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200812/1592/ "A new web application that might pay for news,"] by David Westphal
*[http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/browse_thread/thread/0165ffff3d85d06d# Donica Mensing suggests how IVP might work locally] (click on 'show quoted text')
*[http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com/2008/12/inventing-information-valet.html Martin Langeveld reports on "IVP-Blueprint"]
*[http://timwindsor.com/2008/12/08/can-an-infovalet-guide-us-to-a-business-model/ Tim Windsor: Opening Google/Facebook logins?]
*[http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/information-in-the-first-instance/ Chuck Peters on InfoValet and community information utilities]
*[http://journalism.missouri.edu/graduate/2008-12.pdf "Building a new information highway" (Missouri J-school newsletter PDF)]
*[http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/7030/ Bonnie Obremski describes her "RepJ" project role (WITH VIDEO)]
*[http://getanewbrowser.com/2008/12/bill-densmore-on-network-journalism/ Densmore on network journalism]

====Related concept links====
*[http://www.howardowens.com/2008/walter-lippmann-on-a-free-press/ Walter Lippmann on paying for the news]

====Related event links====
*The program: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-program
*Related resources: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources
*The Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*The video archive (after Dec. 12): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/infovalet
*The #Infovalet Twitter tag feed: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23infovalet
*The InfoValet Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/
*The RJI Fellows Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/rji-fellows/
*The Information Valet Project blog: http://www.informationvalet.org
*Use the tag "ivpblueprint" to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ivpblueprint tag any photos you shoot]
*FLASH ANIMATION: [http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html How the Information Valet Service could work]

==BACKGROUND AND IDEAS ==
===Key discussion topic: Organizing the IVP===
*An initial challenge faced by the IVP is to construct an ownership form for the shared-user network which will be stable, fundable and yet not subject to the challenges of either charitable or Wall Street control. Vermont attorney Tom Moody is among legal scholars advancing the "L3C" as a possible solution.<BR>
READ MORE: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources-l3c

===The MIT gathering report ===
*In June, 2007, Bill Densmore, of the Media Giraffe Project and Henry afasfasdf, at MIT, convened a one-day discussion among a dozens scholars, entrepreneurs and news-industry veterans to talk about what might sustain journalism in a web-centric world.<BR>READ THE SESSION REPORT: http://mediagiraffe.org/mit

===Iowa-based news CEO's blog on innovation===
*Chuck Peters is CEO of the company which owns the Cedar Rapids ''Gazette'' plus printing and other subsidiaries. He'll be joining us at "Blueprint" and he's been following and seeding innovation in the former newspaper industry. [http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/ Here's his blog.] Peters attended a [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/near-crisis-for-newspapers-calls-for-urgent-action-execs-told/ 50-executive summit at the American Press Institute] and [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=9d7d485abd&height=550&width=470 covered it live with Twitter.]
PETERS' BLOG: http://cpetersia.wordpress.com

===Former Massachusetts publisher's ''News after Newspapers''===
*Martin Langeveld was the No.2 person at the family-owned ''Berkshire Eagle'' for more than a decade, then publisher of two MediaNews Group Inc. dailies. He writes his blog from near Brattleboro, Vt.
FIND IT: http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com

===Transforming newspapers: Unified technology needed===
*"To be audience-centric, newspapers need to find a unified technology that helps them to get to know their readers from every interaction that they have . . . ," writes Don Oldman in a Nov. 26, [http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2008/November/nt/11-08_oldham-transform.htm ''Newspapers & Technology'' column.]

==OTHER BACKGROUND LINKS==

*LINK TO [http://www.ivpblueprint.org SUMMIT HOME PAGE]
*WHO'S PARTICIPATING: http://tinyurl.com/62yazu
*KEY BLOG: http://tinyurl.com/6nbz9q
*NEWS (pdf): http://newshare.com/blueprint.pdf
*MORE NEWS: http://tinyurl.com/6jtjpr
*SLIDESHOW: http://tinyurl.com/569au7
*CONCEPT VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/6zguf8
*FLASH ANIMATION: http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html
*NINE-MINUTE VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/5k8qw8
*ABOUT REYNOLDS: http://tinyurl.com/6zkzr4
*FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid33838408751
*TWITTER: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/infovalet

Blueprint-links

2008-12-24T17:36:33Z

70.17.138.237: /* What others are saying about IVP */

[[Image:Blueprint-photos.jpg|thumb|600px|left|[http://flickr.com/photos/33134655@N06/sets/72157610817325064/ View all photos by Josh Rowan]]][[Image:Ivp-rji-logo.jpg|thumb|200px|left|[[http://informationvalet.wordpress.com The Information Valet Project]]]]

<H4>PRIVACY . . . ADVERTISING . . . COMMERCE . . . PERSONALIZATION</H4>
=<b>Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy -- post-event links and resources</b>=
===Building a collaborative, shared-user network<br><br>December 3-5, 2008<br>Reynolds Journalism Institute<br>Columbia, Missouri===
[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint SUMMIT HOME PAGE] . . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-program PROGRAM/SCHEDULE] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants WHO'S INVOLVED] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
<hr>

==KEY PARTICIPATION LINKS==
====[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources Tweet, chat, web wiki -- the convening resources]====
*Learn about the collaboration resources we used -- and tried to use -- to foster dialogue before, during and after the summit, including [http://wordpress.com/tag/ivp-blueprint-summit/ Blog reports] by Emily Sussman, [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23infovalet "tweets" via Twitter] from on- and off-site participants, LiveBlogging by Chuck Peters on [http://www.newshare.com/pdf/blueprint-live-blog-12-04-08.pdf THURSDAY], and on [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=b75f5507b2&height=550&width=470 FRIDAY], plus general [http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Information+Valet%22?type=search&authority=a4&language=en blog references.] Check (and add to) our page of other [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links GENERAL LINKS].
<hr>
====VIDEO: Archived streams of "Blueprint" discussions====
*[http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/962984 Friday morning "what we learned/next steps" session]
<hr>

====What others are saying about IVP====
*http://http://newspapertiger.com/2008/12/23/information-valet-wish-id-been-there/ Sharon Hall of the Suburban Newspapers Assn. references Greg Schermer's talk]
*[http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/would_you_pay_for_a_web_app_that_delivers_the_news.php#comments Sarah Perez, writing at ReadWriteWeb]
*[http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200812/1592/ "A new web application that might pay for news,"] by David Westphal
*[http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/browse_thread/thread/0165ffff3d85d06d# Donica Mensing suggests how IVP might work locally] (click on 'show quoted text')
*[http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com/2008/12/inventing-information-valet.html Martin Langeveld reports on "IVP-Blueprint"]
*[http://timwindsor.com/2008/12/08/can-an-infovalet-guide-us-to-a-business-model/ Tim Windsor: Opening Google/Facebook logins?]
*[http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/information-in-the-first-instance/ Chuck Peters on InfoValet and community information utilities]
*[http://journalism.missouri.edu/graduate/2008-12.pdf "Building a new information highway" (Missouri J-school newsletter PDF)]
*[http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/7030/ Bonnie Obremski describes her "RepJ" project role (WITH VIDEO)]
*[http://getanewbrowser.com/2008/12/bill-densmore-on-network-journalism/ Densmore on network journalism]

====Related concept links====
*[http://www.howardowens.com/2008/walter-lippmann-on-a-free-press/ Walter Lippmann on paying for the news]

====Related event links====
*The program: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-program
*Related resources: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources
*The Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*The video archive (after Dec. 12): http://www.ustream.tv/channel/infovalet
*The #Infovalet Twitter tag feed: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q=%23infovalet
*The InfoValet Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet/
*The RJI Fellows Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/rji-fellows/
*The Information Valet Project blog: http://www.informationvalet.org
*Use the tag "ivpblueprint" to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ivpblueprint tag any photos you shoot]
*FLASH ANIMATION: [http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html How the Information Valet Service could work]

==BACKGROUND AND IDEAS ==
===Key discussion topic: Organizing the IVP===
*An initial challenge faced by the IVP is to construct an ownership form for the shared-user network which will be stable, fundable and yet not subject to the challenges of either charitable or Wall Street control. Vermont attorney Tom Moody is among legal scholars advancing the "L3C" as a possible solution.<BR>
READ MORE: http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources-l3c

===The MIT gathering report ===
*In June, 2007, Bill Densmore, of the Media Giraffe Project and Henry afasfasdf, at MIT, convened a one-day discussion among a dozens scholars, entrepreneurs and news-industry veterans to talk about what might sustain journalism in a web-centric world.<BR>READ THE SESSION REPORT: http://mediagiraffe.org/mit

===Iowa-based news CEO's blog on innovation===
*Chuck Peters is CEO of the company which owns the Cedar Rapids ''Gazette'' plus printing and other subsidiaries. He'll be joining us at "Blueprint" and he's been following and seeding innovation in the former newspaper industry. [http://cpetersia.wordpress.com/ Here's his blog.] Peters attended a [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/near-crisis-for-newspapers-calls-for-urgent-action-execs-told/ 50-executive summit at the American Press Institute] and [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=9d7d485abd&height=550&width=470 covered it live with Twitter.]
PETERS' BLOG: http://cpetersia.wordpress.com

===Former Massachusetts publisher's ''News after Newspapers''===
*Martin Langeveld was the No.2 person at the family-owned ''Berkshire Eagle'' for more than a decade, then publisher of two MediaNews Group Inc. dailies. He writes his blog from near Brattleboro, Vt.
FIND IT: http://newsafternewspapers.blogspot.com

===Transforming newspapers: Unified technology needed===
*"To be audience-centric, newspapers need to find a unified technology that helps them to get to know their readers from every interaction that they have . . . ," writes Don Oldman in a Nov. 26, [http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2008/November/nt/11-08_oldham-transform.htm ''Newspapers & Technology'' column.]

==OTHER BACKGROUND LINKS==

*LINK TO [http://www.ivpblueprint.org SUMMIT HOME PAGE]
*WHO'S PARTICIPATING: http://tinyurl.com/62yazu
*KEY BLOG: http://tinyurl.com/6nbz9q
*NEWS (pdf): http://newshare.com/blueprint.pdf
*MORE NEWS: http://tinyurl.com/6jtjpr
*SLIDESHOW: http://tinyurl.com/569au7
*CONCEPT VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/6zguf8
*FLASH ANIMATION: http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html
*NINE-MINUTE VIDEO: http://tinyurl.com/5k8qw8
*ABOUT REYNOLDS: http://tinyurl.com/6zkzr4
*FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid33838408751
*TWITTER: http://twitter.com/infovalet
*RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/infovalet

Reboot

2008-12-24T17:28:44Z

70.17.138.237: /* THE OPPORTUNITY */

=DRAFT / DRAFT / USA Reboot -- Documenting 100 days to change America=

==THE OPPORTUNITY==

The United States, and journalism, are each at a crossroads. The incoming Obama administration faces the challenge of transforming the nation in ways as fundamental as Reconstruction, or The New Deal. At the same time, the institutions of journalism are changing and diminished. There is deep uncertainty about the impact of a changing media landscape on participatory democracy.

It is a moment for a new collaboration between citizens, journalists in newsrooms and journalists without newsrooms.

* Involve, motivate, and inspire thousands of new professionals.
* Engage the citizenry in breaking the story.
* Launch a new, practical, and participatory format for journalism that is an example for the industry overall.
* Create a way to tell the "untold stories" that people want to hear.
<hr>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html Tom Friedman on the need (NYTimes, Dec. 24)]<hr>

==HOW IT WORKS==
USA Reboot will apply the techniques of social networks and the immediacy of the World Wide web to continuously inform, reveal, challenge and celebrate the effects of policies of the new U.S. administration during its first "100 days". Not by concentrating on Washington, D.C., but by soliciting and elevating the sentiments, ideas, needs of ordinary Americans where they live and work, as seen by their co-workers, friends, plus working and retired journalist contributors. They will contribute via:

*A wiki-format news network
*Videos and photographs
*Participation in community discussions
*Trust networks for peer review, validation of facts, etc.
*Community input on which stories to develop, along the lines of spot.us.
*A Digg/Reddit-style system for promoting the hottest stories.
*what else?

==FEATURES, BENEFITS==
USA Reboot is more than a bulletin board for sharing and commenting on journalism that matters. It is also the first community to explore ideas developed at [http://www.ivpblueprint.org "Blueprinting the Information Valey Economy,"] a Dec. 3-5, 2008 summit at the Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Mo. Among features which will be tested by USA Reboot:

*A place for participants to securely describe and save information about their person web preferences
*An exchange for receiving credits from working to rate and review other members' contributions
*A home base for sharing ideas and knowledge with the nation's journalists
*what else?

==WHAT IS USAREBOOT?==
USA Reboot is an initiative of the Information Valet Project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Our goal is to pilot a new form of collaboration among professional, displaced and "amateur" journalists and engaged citizens. Part "wiki," part blog and part traditional news resource, USA Reboot will document, assess -- and perhaps help guide -- a transformation of the United States economy, civic sphere and outlook.

==WHAT IS RJI?==
The [http://rji.missouri.edu Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute] (RJI) is a non-profit research center at one of the nation's oldest, largest and most respected journalism schools. It's mission is to bring together journalists and citizens to foster ideas, experiments, research and solutions that sustain and redefine journalism in support of participatory democracy. With a founding grant of $31 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, RJI supports revolving fellows, numerous special and standing projects, and convenes meetings, summits, seminars and workshops.

==WHAT IS THE INFORMATION VALET PROJECT==
The [http://www.informationvalet.org Information Valet Project] is an RJI research initiative. It's goal is to rally news and information-industry support for a shared-user network which will help consumers to take control of their personal demographics and privacy, and use the "currency" resulting to discover and access the information they want to reach their full potential as engaged citizens and secure individuals.