I was happy to hear that Helium has partnered with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

I like Helium, I've had the pleasure to converse with some of the editors, who attended the Networked Journalism Conference that I organized in New York. But two things trouble me about this press release:

1. Helium is not strict citizen journalism. They do creative writing and fiction too. Which is great - I'm all for it, as long as we recognize it's not citizen journalism.

The second point is a result of this being a press release (not Heliums fault). They describe it as "the leader in online citizen journalism." Who is the leader? Orato? NowPublic, OhMyNews? Associated Content? (which is also more like Helium in my eyes - not strict citizen journalism), who?

It's a question we should think more about. If this is indeed a "business" then there is a market leader somewhere. I don't know who it is right now. But would love to find out. If you know or have an idea - please comment.