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Lisa Williams - founder
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""A lot of functional small cities and large towns are actually comic operas with real estate taxes . . . I''m interested in a different kind of growth. It''s sort of volunteer media in the way a volunteer fire department is . . . I have the same advice that The Ramones had: Don''t wait until you''re any good. Just dive in there, the water''s fine."
Lisa Williams, proprietor of H20Town, a news weblog for Watertown, Mass., during an interview on Open Source Radio, Aug. 8, 2005."

Location: East Watertown, MA

Email: lisa@cadence90.com

Website: http://www.h2otown.info/, www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_342.shtml

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UPDATE:
Oct. 17, 2007 -- Williams updates the status of Placeblogger.


What''s it like to have small children, and take on the responsibility of writing a community-news weblog for an aging suburb of 35,000 people -- working alone, as a volunteer? Lisa Williams has been doing that for her hometown of Watertown, Mass., a close-in Boston suburb, for more than two years (as of November 2005), and she''s written about her blog, called H20Town.

READ MORE: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/artman/publish/article_342.shtml THIRD-PARTY ARTICLES:
Journalism professor Dan Kennedy profiles Lisa Williams in the Feb. 2006 edition of Commonwealth Magazine:
http://www.massinc.org/index.php?id=497&pub_id=1793

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