The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet.
The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep […]
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Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights.
Could a community be an art form?
I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused […]
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Another great thread unfolds on the Observation Deck:The First Mayoral Debate of the Lakewood Observer. (As always, the Lakewood Observer project in Lakewood, Ohio, is one of the truly innovative experiments in civic engagement, intelligence and journalism going on in the US today.)
Although it is obvious the US has become debate-crazy, as if debates […]
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I had occasion to contribute some thoughts to the Observation Deck of the Lakewood (Ohio) Observer, a all-volunteer, community newspaper. I was briefly and memorably involved in early efforts to develop civic intelligence there. Lakewood remains one of those special urban places. Snug againt Cleveland proper and Lake Erie, Lakewood is still the most densely […]
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I’m wondering if Joy Benedict at WKYC prepared a piece about a film she didn’t see. If she did, this would make her a shill for Diebold on WKYC’s payroll.
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The Lakewood Public Library has returned to the top ranking (pdf) of American libraries in its class. And, it scored #2 among all libraries in Hennen’s American Public Library Ratings for 2006.
It is my favorite library.
I like what the publisher of The Lakewood Observer wrote on the LO forum after hearing the news.
What has become […]
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Today. 4pm. The Lakewood Public Library Future Tools Series
…presenting a galvanizing vision for the pursuit of transformative knowledge via the exploration of everyday urban life. Then, during the main course of the program, participants will offer their own ideas about how this knowledge could be sought, created, captured, and documented. The evening’s program is capped […]
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Congressperson Sherrod Brown’s GrowOhio.org featuresThinker of the Week: Jim O’Bryan and Ken Warren, the dynamic duo spearheading The Lakewood Observer. Great article with good pictures that do both the project and these two fine guys justice.
This is a “post-professional newspaper driven by the passion and intelligence of residents,” [Warren] says. “If a person is passionate […]
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