Six Months of Minnesota Monitor: from Blog to Online Journal

Minnesota Monitor has undergone a lot of change since its bytes were first splattered across selected servers in North America. The Center for Independent Media fellows who contribute to Minnesota Monitor were selected from the blogosphere, not from the ranks of traditional journalists. Because of this many of us thought, “Aha! Free reign!” But it hasn’t turned out that way.

more insideMost blogging is very informal. Few checks and balances exist in the blogosphere. Anybody can say just about anything they want with little legal or formal oversight. But we fellows quickly learned that this was not going to be the way we would operate on Minnesota Monitor. In fact, one of the first things we learned