Hi fellows,
I also got a call from Joe Light of the Globe. He mentioned that he
had talked to NGerda as well.
He interviewed me for a while, and today a photographer showed up at
the summer camp that I worked at and shot a bunch of photos. The
photographer was a little confused-- he seemed to think that the camp
had something to with Wikinews, or vice versa. Anyway, Joe said the
article would be out this week.
I'll let he know if I hear anything.
Brandon
On 6/22/05, Ciaran Gorman <cgorman03(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I received an email from Joe Light of the Boston Globe
about a week ago
requesting an interview with me. I responded enthusiastically giving him a
list of times to call; however I have'nt heard from him since.
Ciaran
On 6/21/05, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Hello Clare!
> Thank you so much to everyone who helped and supported the Rwanda week,
I'm
> back in London now after an amazing time over there. Live reporting was
much
harder than I expected so the whole thing would
not have been possible
if it
hadn't been for all the efforts others put
into writing Rwanda stories
and I
know it was hugely appreciated by people there,
who are much more used
to
being ignored by the international community.
Now if only we could establish a permanent presence there .. One thing
that might work is using cell phones to record reports, which are at
least somewhat widespread in Africa. There's a project underway to make
Wikipedia content available to Africans via cell phones (using
text-to-speech and free callbacks), perhaps a similar approach could be
used for Wikinews, both for recording and reading (listening to) news.
Anyone interested in working on this - drop me a mail, and I'll put you
in touch with the right people.
> I'm planning to write a report on what can be learnt from the experience
in
terms of access to technology, other problems,
the usefulness of
Wikinews in
getting alternative voices heard and potential
future ideas so will do
that
> soon, hope it will be useful. Erik, if you could let me know when
you're
working
on State of the Wiki I can try and get it to you before then?
Will be written and published in early July probably. I'm planning to do
a little user survey again, and I'll contact you when I do that.
Also, someone from the Boston Globe called me out
there to talk about
the
conference & Wikinews (hopefully he also
spoke to someone with rather
more
experience...) I think he was comparing WN with
Ohmynews (?) so we'll
see
what he comes up with.
OhMyNews is probably the largest citizen journalism project (unless you
count Indymedia as citizen journalism). I'm invited to a conference in
Seoul this week to speak about Wikinews at the OhMyNews forum. I'll try
to give you all an idea what these people are working on when I get back.
> I've been completely convinced of the value of WN over the past week
and
look
forward to continued involvement!
Wonderful. It's great to have you on board.
Best,
Erik
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