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"July 5-11, 2006Dan Gillmor's announcement this past January that his experiment with citizen journalism through his website Bayosphere was effectively over came relatively quietly, especially when compared to the frenzy his widely influential 2004 book, We the Media, caused.In the beginning, Bayosphere, started by Gillmor, the former tech columnist turned blogging guru, was designed to democratize the media from the bottom up. It even attracted some seed funding from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network.But in a recent candid post on Bayosphere, Gillmor wrote that the response to his site had been \"underwhelming\" and that he had erred by trying to have it \"pay its own way out of the gate.\"He listed several lessons that he learned from the experiment, including the idea that limiting participation in citizen journalism ventures isn't \"necessarily a bad idea,\" something that may sound antithetical to citizen journalism's democratizing mission.These days, Gillmor's main focus is on establishing a new nonprofit organization, the Center for Citizen Media, which is affiliated with both Cal's journalism graduate school and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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