Hi Tyler! A longer response of mine just disappeared in an unfortunate error. You're asking all the right questions, ones we ask ourselves all the time. To elaborate on the journalism question, I think this is journalism in the same vein as public affairs programs like Talk of the Nation or the Diane Rehm show, but we're trying to be a little closer to the community and provide, within the context of the conversation, the tools to share resources easily and to even move to action. There are voting tools and petition tools embedded in our environment.

Among the goals is to encourage civic discourse. We figure if people are spending so much time online on social media anyway, why not direct some of it to civic good and solving civic issues.

I'm going to submit this and then answer the metrics question