Great Online Expectations

Great Online Expectations: "Dan Gillmor's effort to reinvent journalism through Net startup Bayosphere ended, appropriately enough, on the Internet. On Jan. 24, Gillmor, a reporter turned entrepreneur, posted an open letter online conceding that his attempt to build a community news site for the Bay Area wasn't gaining traction. He said he was shifting his focus to academia. 'The site didn't take off -- in large part, no question about it, because of my own miscues and shortcomings,' he wrote. "