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Many of you will have noticed a few changes on the site today. We are in the process of rolling out a new flagging system. This tool will gradually come to life this week. Today we pushed the new comment style... Climate chasm grows at NowPublic
Climate change. Global warming. An Inconvenient Truth. Or is it an inconvenient lie? The great climate debate grows larger by the day, and is likely to grow more and more fervent in the months and years to come.... Wii Have a Problem, Houston: Citizen Journalism and Beyond
We Media holds its 2007 conference in Miami Feb. 7-9. and its blog is already busy with baffling brainbusters. Travis Smith asks a very interesting question in a posting to the We Media conference Blog: is it...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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834 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
Actual News Guy says: read this quote
What's it take to file authentic news stories to NowPublic? Of course one thing is to keep your eyes open to things that are happening around you (and remember your mobile phone has a camera!).But here's...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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486 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
War on terror puts passengers in booties
The war on terror has entered a new, dangerous phase which includes putting silly booties on passengers at the San Diego airport.As passengers move toward the security check-in area, signs are posted directing...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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The world is watching Citizen Journalism
Everybody in the "citizen journalism neighborhood is sitting bolt-upright these days. Traditional newspapers, broadcasters, news service providers (like Reuters, et al) are staring at sites like Newsvine and NowPublic, as well as at Yahoo's You Witness News and CNN's...Please Skype me a cheese scone
Help! I cannot leave my office and a colleague in Budapest has just IM'd me that he has to check on his cheese scones in his oven b4 answering a technical question I've just Skype'd him.Now I am desperately...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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A blood test to buy a house?
It was the strangest thing...our colleague being given a blood test by a nurse who shows up at our place of work.No, our buddy is not a criminal, junkie, or professional athlete...but he is a new home owner, and...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Do you make more or less than Canadian profs?
All academics, ahoy: here is your chance to either sneer about, gloat over, or envy what pipe-puffers make in the Great White North. You'll have to download the file to poke into the pay scales of most of the...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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A Newspaper Chain Sees Its Future, And It's Online and Hyper-Local
They call them "mojos" - mobile journalists who work out of their cars and file for the Gannett string of newspapers."FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Could this be the future of newspapering? Darkness falls on a chilly Winn-Dixie parking lot in a dodgy part of North Fort Myers just...Buried in the caption of a NowPublic photo, a love story
Today we received a photo from contributor Vladimirvera, which came with the disclaimer, I know this isn't a great picture.And yet a photo that makes you stop, and wonder.Two fingers, touching. One dark, one...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Media-induced depression: it's real and it has nothing to do with you
I like reading Romanesko, a media analyst and blogger at Poynter Online.In his column today, Almost everything in the media seems to be about the media, he starts off with a quote from William Powers, of the...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Pope says Christians, Muslims part of same family; evangelicals disagree
Maybe Pope Benedict XVI had to say this, or maybe it's part of a larger strategy only Vatican insiders can parse. But in speaking to a very prominent evangelical, Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham and spiritual successor to his father's evangelical establishment)...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Will HDTV destroy Canada? will you buy one for Christmas?
You may be considering buying a new flat-panel TV set for Christmas. But before you do, a warning: it may be bad for Canada.Of course, you may not care about Canadians. But if some part of your soul is deeply...
created by Actual News Geezer | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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1830 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
A peaceful Bagdhad protest, and a NowPublic Mystery
A string of very interesting photos have just arrived from NowPublic member woodkern.Without a doubt, the photos are authentic, and not "borrowed" from any news agency.There is little explanation that came with...
created by Actual News Geezer | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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