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These links attest to the fact (not some bobble-headed dot.comism) that we are on the wave of something significant and timely—a platform for citizen journalists. A Quote: James Carey, the esteemed Columbia University journalism professor who died in 2006, once wrote that journalism was essentially conversation among citizens. Communication was culture, he often said. It was creating a community “of conversationalists, of people who talk to one another, who resolve disputes with one another through talk,” he wrote in an essay titled “A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” This month's news and commentary: Citizen Journalism” http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2007/printable_online_citizenmedia.asp?media=1&cat=1 Chicago Tribune Rolls out Hyperlocal website: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0704181135apr19,0,4387189.story?coll=chi-business-hed Topix: mega aggregator and Hyperlocal (contradiction) —works by ip and localnews aggregation… Launched April 1 http://blog.topix.net/archives/000133.html review of Topix: http://mashable.com/2007/04/01/topix/