Jeff Jarvis, long involved in traditional publishing, is cooking up an interesting project, along with New York University, for a center to study and promote citizens' media. Not a lot of details forthcoming, but this is the type of "big idea efforts" that journalism and communications schools can and should undertake. It's pretty clear that news organizations run for a profit need to focus on projects that add to the bottom line. Academic institutions can fill an innovation gap where the limits of these self-publishing technologies can be pushed.