User-generated community publication in an online neighborhood social network

A method comprising:

• generating an online neighborhood social network in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a physical location and an electronic location of the users;
• processing a user selection of at least one indicator of a submit-a-story-idea indicator and a become-a-journalist indicator;
• processing a submission form when the submit-a-story-idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted stow idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time;
• transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become-a-journalist indicator;
• altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author;
• determining a timer for a duration of a checked out status of the submitted story idea, and resetting the timer when the community journalist authors an article based on the submitted stow idea and submits the article to a journalism algorithm;
• automatically determining a continuing qualification of the community journalist based on responses to the timer, and at least one of a peer feedback rating and a reader feedback rating of the article authored by the community journalist;
• automatically generating a community publication based on the article and other articles submitted by other community journalists at a periodically occurring interval;
• publishing, a community publication in the geospatial environment to targeted users distributable to the electronic location of at least a subset of the targeted users subscribing to the community publication when the electronic location is available;
• creating a postal mailing of the community publication to another subset of the targeted users based on a mailing to the physical location of the targeted users, wherein the another subset of the targeted users have at least one of a subscription to the community publication and which are targeted as being possibly interested in the community publication;
• automatically generating the community publication in any of a selectable number of languages based on readership preferences of the members of the group and a moderator user who serves as an editor and publisher of the community publication in the online neighborhood social network;
• embedding in the name of the community publication a name of an operator of the geospatial environment;
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• automatically repositioning the article in an electronic version of the community publication based on a popularity of the article as elected by readers of the article in the electronic version of the community publication,
• wherein the community publication is generated to a group based on at least one of a geographic location of the group, a common professional interests of the group, a religious affiliation of the soup, a friendship between members of the group, an educational institution associated with the group, a cultural affiliation of the group, a political interest of the group, and a social interest of the group.