Continuous social power

1) Does business mean making money? So is the question, does citizen journalist get paid? Does the money come from add on blogs or from freelance salary from different sources.

2) Also Sam Whitmore is concerned about literacy, but more of reading and writing. Often we speak of digital literacy and this would include the skills and wills of using blogs and RSS and mobilephone and satelite television. Sam has a "audio feed" a kind of audioblog or his own radiochannel. That is one solution for helping people who don't want to read.

But is there business (money) in this? This is a relevant question only if you need money. Some one can be doing this just to pass the time or to help others of the get recognized:-)

The power of citizen journalism might not be in one individual blogger. It might not be a way to get rich for most of us. It does not have to compite with business of atension (newspapers, broadcasters and so on.)

Power of citizen journalism might be in the idea of global village. In the idea of 150 persons in a tribe and about 1000 contacts as a personal network. Citizen journalism makes you rich in your contacts. People get to know what you want to do and you will find the right contacts to get it done.
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