Our Ethanol Debate is a multidisciplinary blog launched by Carleton College students to provide a current research and thinking on all things ethanol, especially as it relates to current events in Bridgewater Township. From the blog:
The articles and video presentations found here address a range of issues surrounding the production and use of ethanol [...]
We recently received a comment through our Contact Us page, accusing Locally Grown of sponsoring racism because of something that was posted by one of the local blogs we show on our right sidebar. I feel the need to publish a disclaimer.
One of the features we use on Locally Grown is what’s known as a [...]
In today’s NY Times: A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs. See also:
BlogHer: What are your community guidelines?
Wikia: Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Tim O’Reilly’s Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct
I’ve long been a proponent and enforcer of civility in online forums. I like what’s being proposed by the above bloggers. There’s not been a [...]
A bunch of us locals have been pushing Web 2.0 stuff onto our fellow citizens since the launching of the civic blogosphere project back in the summer of 2004.
The Northfield.org tagline “Community news, citizen produced” says it best. And it’s happening there.
Our Locally Grown tagline “Blogging and podcasting the people, issues, and events of Northfield, [...]
Yesterday, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with Thor Henning Lerstad, News Director for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). He’s visiting Minnesota this week to “study best-practice examples of Consultative/Participatory/Public Journalism.”
(Last September, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with a colleague of his, Jørgen Jensen, a journalist [...]
November 3, 2006 – 12:57 pm
The Northfield Historical Society is having their annual auction on Saturday night… dubbed the Magical History Tour (PDF poster). The Fab Five?
I’ll be there taking crowd/socializing photos like I first did waaaaaaay back in 2003 (see this new version of the 2003 album). I missed the 2004 “Wanted Ed or alive” auction but was there [...]
October 21, 2006 – 5:30 am
I’m really bugged that, to my knowledge, none of the candidates for any of our local races — Northfield City Council, Rice County Commissioner and Northfield School Board — have web sites, let alone blogs or podcasts. It forces us citizens to rely solely on A) the Northfield News; and B); face to face events [...]
September 21, 2006 – 12:39 am
In yesterday’s Northfield News, publisher Louie Seez announced his retirement, effective in December. (Left photo, L to R: Dean Kjerland, Kris Vohs, and Louie Seez at the open house for Northfield Crossing back in January.)
I don’t know Louie and I’ve not asked anyone at the News what he’s like as a manager or a [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski