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Your Hub

I asked Rebecca Whitnall of the VC Star's YourHub.com to share what the new site is all about with the Ojai Post:

YourHub.com is the Star’s community journalism Web site, though to us, it’s more than just another Web site – it’s a philosophy.

Citizen journalism, also known as participatory, community or democratic journalism, is where community members play an active role in the process of collecting and reporting news and information.

It isn’t a large news outfit controlling what community members see. It doesn’t attempt to dictate what should be important to you. YourHub.com is for the community. It’s a town square where families can meet to tell stories that are important to them. Mary had a lemonade sale for a fundraiser? Write about it. John made the honor roll at school? Write about it.

YourHub.com is a place neighbors can discuss what happened at the last city council meeting, organize for the next one or set up events for garage sales, birthday parties and bake sales. It’s a place where anyone can create an ad for a lamp that’s been sitting in the garage, or for a litter of kittens who need a loving home.

And it’s growning, striving to be whatever the community wants it to be. The site is all about giving the community the opportunity to decide what “the news” is because as soon as you hit the “publish” button on the site, your news is there for everyone to see. (Having said that, I should note we do screen for obscenities and objectionable content; however, in our entire time hosting YourHub.com, we haven’t had to remove a single story.)

Also, each week, the YourHub.com staff selects a “best of” collection of postings to publish in a special section of the Tuesday Ventura County Star.

I hope this helps, Lisa. I’m in the process of trying to schedule an Ojai YourHub 101 community meeting, where we meet with interested folks in the community and discuss community journalism, YourHub.com and give some article writing tips. I’ll let you know when we get that all arranged.

If you or your contacts have any questions, please feel free to send me an e-mail [rwhitnall@venturacountystar.com] or give me a call at 437-0297.

Thank you,

Rebecca

It's easy to get started. Just go to www.YourHub.com, select your state, then your community, then your neighborhood. Ojaians should choose Ventura, because there is no hub (yet) for Ojai. You can sign-up by clicking "register" in the red circle in the top left corner.

Posted by Lisa Snider on May 8, 2007 08:22 AM | | | Your Hub

Comments (3)

Thanks for the info which shows that sites like OP are the wave of the present. Now there's competition for my hi-jacking talents; does that pass muster for "self-deprecating humor"? From Rebecca's description, sounds like the Hub (why does that sound like an Irish Pub?)is a lot of fluff & flub but I'll have to check it out for myself if I ever have enough time after attempting to hi-jack the OP and AlterNet. Maybe I'll be the first that Rebecca's Hub sends to the outer ring, sensored and censored from the PC ring of Ventura politics. Is going from a mansion of Crowns to a mission of commons a step up or down? Ever hear of Mallory Way, the place the local crown authority bravely ignores (you know, conflict of interest and all that). Now there's a subject to balance any hub's fluff or hubby's puff, but don't hold your breath or nose waiting for the mainstream press or posts to catch that wave of the present.

Comment #1 Posted by: Dennis Leary | May 8, 2007 09:31 AM

blessings Rebecca, Lisa, on this new-borne wonder-child!

and Dennis, you would be the one to say "appearances are deceiving" ...

when WE have transformed this social-political-spiritual matrix known as the The Field -- when harmonious collectivity is lived and expressed for the first time by the 'instituted' ritual/church/word -- then and only then will there be rainbow conscious spectra overflowing enough to deal with people's personal issues, viz the "Mallory Ways".

individual isolation, loneliness, will no longer be a State-orchestrated power device -- as love-aplenty will flow to those who desire it.

and infinite peacefilled natural quiet available for anyone, when-any-one, who choses ...

Comment #2 Posted by: Millennium Twain | May 8, 2007 10:05 AM

Thanks, Millenium. I've been schooled. I'm like that ad about Mikey the kid who was against everything; Dennis the Menace and my relative Timothy and all that. I'm not sure what you meant by the appearances are deceiving bit but I agree wholeheartedly with the growth of mainstream love. Now the thought occurs to me that we could link with the Hub and refer some of that readership to the Post. Wouldn't that be creating the interlinking hands of love that you're using poetic license to describe?

Comment #3 Posted by: Dennis Leary | May 9, 2007 06:53 AM

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