Thoughts from the Tech Awards (1)
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I’m spending the evening at the Tech Awards in San Jose at the McEnery Convention Center. In keeping with the mood I’ve been in since the election, this has been a good place to come to feel the cynicism wash away and regain a serse of optimism. Right now, Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, is receiving the Humanitarian Award. Grameen pioneered the concept of extending micro credit to people in emerging economies. It ...
Launching today: Spot.Us promotes community funded journalism (1)
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In the search for new business models for journalism, one of the most intriguing experiments underway is Spot.Us. Founded by David Cohn, Spot.Us creates a marketplace between reporters and communities to try a new paradigm for funding journalism. Cohn was among the most recent recipients of the Knight Foundation News Challenge Grants last spring for this project. After several months in quiet beta, Spot.Us officially launched today. The concept works like this: A reporter posts ...
Sustainability: Spot.Us promotes community funded journalism (1)
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In the search for news business models, one of the most intriguing experiments underway is Spot.Us. Founded by David Cohn, Spot.Us creates a marketplace between reporters and communities to try a new paradigm for funding journalism. Cohn was among the most recent recipients of the Knight Foundation News Challenge Grants last spring for this project. The concept works like this: A reporter posts an idea for a story along with an amount they need to ...
The mysterious disappearance of China’s largest freshwater lake (1)
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Over the weekend, a Beijing-based freelancer kindly bestowed upon me the secrets of how to succeed in the fickle, coldly commercial world that is journalistic self-employment. When in China, write about pandas, dragons and kung fu monks. I assumed it was an embittered joke but he did repeat it four times. Inspirational stuff, but while I still cling on to a scrap of idealism, I’m toying with the idea of taking a trip down to ...
This week I have been mostly … (1)
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… making very few grammatical changes to thought-provoking articles about “reincarnated soul boys”. As part of my duty to spread the word, the State Council’s latest opus is displayed in full below since I feel it has not received the due attention it deserves. Entitled “The Religious Ritual and Historical Convention of Living Buddha Reincarnation” and bylined “Yi Duo”, it marks a different approach to recent tirades against the Dalai Lama. Here, we see an ...
