There's a fascinating conference from a group called the New Pamphleteers which will be held in two weeks in Minneapolis, June 4-6 at the University of Minnesota.

It's called "New Pamphleteers/New Reporters:
Convening Entrepreneurs Who Combine Journalism, Democracy, Place and Blogs," chaired by Bill Densmore from the U of Mass in Amherst.

Bill and friends have been thinking and talking about the kind of grassroots reporting and commentary that Rian Fike talks about so eloquently in this post.

Have a look, if you can't attend, follow the proceedings--I'm sure they will continue this work online after the conference.

This conference is being held just before the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

(As a Minnesotan, I'm proud to say that these conferences have come to Minneapolis because of the strong grassroots self-publishing throughout this part of the country.  And walking around the lakes and along the river in Minneapolis in June is heaven.)

Here's the link to the New Pamphleteers conference.