Part of what technology does for us in the non-profit world is give us individual voice. Even more exciting, in my opinion, is when it gives the communities we serve voice.

I have been playing with the tools at Common Media setting up a news clip Community (Inclusive Travel & Tourism) at Common Times and collecting bits of interesting video at the site.

 
Now, feeling like I have a personal stake in the project, I am finding reflections on the spread of Social Newsmarking and Citizen Journalism at the site's blog to be illuminating:  http://blog.commonbits.org/2005/10/be_the_editor_s.html