From Oscar Martinez, managing editor at Dallas News' neighborsgo, comes an eruption of community journalism on the dog beat: Cricket the Chihuahua, the pride of Rowlett, Texas, was for the second time, America's second-fastest Chihuahua Sunday at the Petco National Chihuahua race in San Diego. You can look over the entire field here.

Here's video of Cricket's finish, courtesy of the San Diego Union Tribune. (There's YouTube video of the race, but there's no glory there for second place: The winner, Maddy from New York, gets all the post-race love.)

Lots more, including Cricket's training race against a human runner and a probably bogus first-person by Cricket, at Oscar's wrap page. (The link again.)

Lofty netizen ideas of citizen journalism and disruptive technologies foresee collecting all the "Macaca" moments; Webs of microlocal information on new businesses, potholes, zoning squabbles; video archives of government meetings; politicians willing to take questions and explain in their own words why they're doing what they're doing.

But not a lot of people really want to be crusading reporters for no money.

Most of us want to document what we're passionate about -- our families, our DIY projects, our gardens, the big fish we caught, bands we see and our smart pet's tricks. So if you've got the fastest chihuahua in Rowlett, Texas (2006 pop. 54,869), competing in a national race, it's big.

Later: I still think there's potential for people to shoot video of meetings they care about, speeches, marches, incidents, festivals, clips of bands they like and much more; take us into public buildings, restaurants, stores and bars for a look. And for leaders of all sorts to converse with us, the voters and customers.