I am so sad I’m not at this conference on citizen media at UMASS Amherst. I’m going out of town on Sunday for a week’s vacation, and had too much to do beforehand.

Looks like there are a few Vermonters there, like Lynn Gregory of UVM, Chris Grotke of iBrat, Rob Williams of ACME.

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...