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May 16 2008

This is what I wanted to do with Blog Peoria

Posted by: Billy Dennis in Announcements, Citizen Journalism

Ten innovative citizen media projects have been selected as this year’s New Voices grant winners and will each receive up to $17,000 in start-up funding.

Many of this year’s winners focus on special-interest communities as well as geographic locales. One grantee will create a new model for regional news coverage in Ohio and Indiana. Others will start news and social networking sites for war veterans, families of prisoners, aviation buffs, immigrant and Native American communities and the eco-conscious.

I like running Blog Peoria, although I don’t have nearly enough time to devote to it as I should. I’m going to be upgrading soon, and after the fine folks at BuddyPress are done working out the kinks, I’ll be making this site more of a social site. If it all works out, I’ll be moving Peoria Pundit posts over here, and pointing the PeoriaPundit.com domain here. It’s gotta take less energy running one WordPress installation instead of one.

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