[...] I recently provided some feedback to NBC 11’s Hometown project, an advancement for hyperlocal citizen journalism and the neighborhood network in USA. I was pleased to meet Jennifer here in Singapore who’s very involved with citizen journalism here with the one of the most notable newspapers, the Singapore Straits. [...]

[...] 2) Trying to scale a network is difficult from the ground up. (Holly Liu) Building yet another new network or group for users is difficult. Users often resist yet another registration, another data pool of information. I’m known for frequently saying “consider joining before building a community” to clients, our at presentations. This is why existing communities in Yahoo Groups, MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and Google Groups make good places to start. Don’t see the community? Then you’ve got a great opportunity to try to move in and build a platform. I even told this in feedback to NBC 11. [...]