How Engaging Is An Open Public Discussion If It Costs $20 To Ent...

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 04/21/2010 - 21:35

There's been a lot of attention paid to Pierre Omidyar's attempt to build a new kind of local news organization in Hawaii.

Omidyar, of course, was the founder of eBay, and many of the early comments about the project made it sound like a "new" type of news organization that really was very much about making the community a part of the process -- something that we've pointed out makes a lot of sense .

Omidyar also brought in...

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