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I was at BlogHer today discussing Placeblogger and all the great placeblogs we've discovered and indexed here on a panel entitled "Can Social Media Save Media." Andrea of Library Techtonics liveblogged this panel, and Steve Sherlock, who runs the Franklin Matters placeblog, took this photo. (I regret that I had so little time to spend with Steve, Sarah Dopp, and of course Lisa, Elisa, and Jory, the mighty troika of BlogHer itself).

Placeblogger will be at Drupalcon, this year's gathering of the community behind Drupal, the open-source content management system that makes big parts of Placeblogger possible.

This kind of thing is exactly why I'm considering not talking at journalism conferences anymore. I talk, but it seems to me that nobody hears anything but what confirms what they already think. I came to ONA to support my colleagues working on the Knight News Challenge, which exists specifically to bring new ideas into the news industry. That said, I attend to contribute new ideas, and I expect to get the same in return. With the notable exceptions of Gary, Jennifer, Courtney, Aaron, and Jan, I didn't learn anything that I didn't know two years ago. I'd get that kind of idea density in twelve minutes of your average Bloggercon.

PBS, Media Shift, and the Knight Foundation have launched IdeaLab, a site where Jay Rosen and Adrian Holovaty, among others, will be writing about building stuff from scratch.

Sincere apologies to Jeff and David and others at the News Innovation Forum for my no show at this morning's session.

If you get off I-83 in Harrisburg at the North Front Street exit, you’ll see them all in a row: a Wendy’s drive-thru, a three-story Days’ Inn painted sea foam green, and the headquarters of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.

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