Check it out —Burlington’s own failed citizen journalism experiment is for sale on eBay.

iBurlington founder Brian Brown is asking $299 for the site. The auction ends Thursday, May 22 at 7:08 p.m.

Want to know a little more about the site before you bid? Here’s a link to my last post about it on 802 Online.

Thanks to Haik for the tip.

This article appears in May 14-20, 2008.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...