There's your inberkeley.com, @davewiner Not another newsblog but a cafe. A cafe-based news organization http://twitter.com/jayrose... - Jay Rosen

Media companies should open coffee shops http://wemediaguru.com/2008... and New York Times, A Latte With Journalism on the Side http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Jay Rosen

David Cohn: Journalism Business Idea - the Newsroom Cafe http://www.digidave.org/2009... - Jay Rosen

what I would do if I bought a newspaper (2005) http://blackrimglasses.com/archive... - Jay Rosen

When I read the piece I thought what a great idea. And too bad the Knight award apps are already in, cause that would be exactly the kind of project they should fund as a pilot. Could easily turn into a national chain. I have a feeling this kind of thing was important in the bootstrapping of newspapers orginally?? - Dave Winer

yeah, major arrows back to the origins of modern news and even "public opinion" in the coffee houses of the eighteeenth century. - Jay Rosen

I think it would be fun and interesting just to imagine inberkeley.com--or any local news site-- as a cafe. Let's give her a going over on Rebooting the News! - Jay Rosen

Looking forward to the perspective from the wise gurus of journalism and technology :) - Daniel Bachhuber

Another interesting thing about the old London coffee houses was that commerce was mixed in with the news. Merchants had permanent booths in some of the houses. - Amyloo

A similar theme runs through Steven Johnson's newest book, The Invention of Air: http://www.amazon.com/Inventi... - Jeff Beckham

I see a connection between the fishing village metaphor, the coffee shop in that fishing village, and the analog bloggers: http://www.neatorama.com/2009... - Bora Zivkovic

Techies plan California-style java jolt "Why isn’t there a relaxed place here where people can hang out, plug in and talk tech?..." http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston... - Jay Rosen

Here's the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages... As Dave says, it could be a chain. Specifically (says me, a former franchise consultant) as a franchise -- centrally controlled for consistency and buying power, but locally owned. Hook the locations together so it's a conferencing network, too. - Amyloo

Thanks, amy! Interesting. Also interesting to me: when I discussed this a bit on Twitter, old school journalists just immediately assumed I meant taking the kind of newsroom that they know and turning that into a cafe. - Jay Rosen