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How an Indian Living Aboard Followed the Mumbai TragedyDecember 1

Nikhil Moro, a native of India, has an excellent post at the Civic and Citizen Journalism Interest Group blog about what it was like to be in the USA and keep up with the the terrorist tragedy as it unfolded in Mumbai. He lists an impressive combination of mainstream media, Twitter, Flickr, Wikipedia, bloggers and more.

Knight Challenge Round 2: Journalism Doctor TelepresenceNovember 29

My Journalism Doctor Telepresence Reporting Experiment made it into Round 2 of the $5 million Knight News Challenge. I just uploaded the Round 2 materials about an hour ago.

I noticed in the first round they had about 2,300 applicants. The deadline for the Round 2 submissions is Monday, December 1, 2008 and so far the total Round 2 submission are at about 100. So am guessing about 200 final entries, but that’s just a guess.

So what the heck is the Journalism Doctor Telepresence Reporting Experiment? Well get yourself over to the Knight News Challenge site to find out. When there, please be sure to rate my idea. If you like it, send your friends. It is, I do believe a very good idea, and when I explain it to videographers and people who teach video classes they love it. Now, see what you think.

WGBH Does Story, Analysis on Spot.us., Rep J ModelsNovember 24

The Representative Journalism and Spot.us crowdfunding models got the talking-head treatment at WGBH in Boston. It is interesting to be on the receiving end of one of these of discussions. In the end, I would say it was fair and balanced even though the moderator, who worried about the biases in crowdfunding, showed her own bias by starting the discussion by saying in a most condescending way, “Come on, it is a quaint idea.” See this section of the The Beat the Press show: A new journalism business model emerges.

Laid Off Journalist? Apply for a Free Pro Blogging AccountNovember 24

This from yesterday’s New York Times:

The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated bloggers and journalists a free pro account (worth $150 annually) on the company’s popular blogging platform. In addition to the free yearly membership, the 20 to 30 journalists who are accepted will receive professional tech support, placement on the company’s blog aggregation site, Blogs.com, and automatic enrollment in the company’s advertising revenue-sharing program.

Memory Lane: Barack and Hillary in Unity, New HampshireNovember 22

In anticipation of Barack Obama naming Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, we take a tour of the first day of unity between Hillary and Barack in Unity, New Hampshire, June 27, 2008. I was there, and now you can be there too. Enjoy.