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NowPublic contributor 'uncultured' in the Globe and Mail

by ryan | December 21, 2007 at 11:26 am

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The Globe and Mail published a story about uncultured today. Here's the segment of the article where he talks about NowPublic, follow the link to read it in full.

Inspired, he took a break from his studies and went to stay with his grandmother in Dhaka. With no training in aid work, no organization behind him and no real plan of action, he was winging it. He started off distributing bottled water in a flood zone, then persuaded a European company to give him free bed nets and water purification straws for distribution. He documented it all on his website and videos, recently featured by the Vancouver-based citizen journalism site NowPublic.com.

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Rob Peters

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 11:52 on December 21st, 2007

Great to see one of our contributors getting so much exposure, and the NowPublic namecheck ain't so bad either.

sillygwailo

at 12:00 on December 21st, 2007

The way the headline reads, it makes it sound like Canada's national newspaper considers this citizen journalism website to be unrefined.

ryan

at 12:05 on December 21st, 2007

good point - for those not familiar with 'uncultured' i'm sure the headline got their attention. I've refined the headline...what da'ya think, better?