43 Things: A social networking site where users create accounts and then share lists of goals and hopes.Backfence.com: Citizen journalism site for posting news, information and events. Currently covering California, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia.BrooWaha: Los Angeles-based project enabling people to write about news events their city. Contributors' input ranked according to popularity.CoMagz Linkadlic Magazine: Community e-zine of items created and rated by users. Covers art, gadgets, technology, science and the life observations of columnists.Hypergene MediaBlog: Dealing with participatory journalism, and how audiences shape tomorrow's news. Written by media design consultants Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman.iBrattleboro: Alternative information source and community forum for Brattleboro, VT.NewsCloud: A community directory for sharing and commenting on news. Creates tiny url shortcuts for emailing friends about uploaded content. Join to submit stories, videos and blog posts from around the web.Newsvine: Register to add a news story, comment or write a column. Open source, community news service, which lets members customize the news viewed.OhmyNews International: Online newspaper with the motto "every citizen is a reporter". The majority of articles are written by freelance contributors.