The blogging trend has paved the way and made people realize you can reach a wide audience even if you’re an amateur writer. This will drive seld confidence for more people to contribute.

And if you look at hyper local sites this implies even more, because here there’s a greater chance for a citizen to have a “scope”, since no traditional local paper has the resources to cover every cat trapped in a tree top.

But the citizen with the kitchen view has just that!