It seems I’ve been traveling a lot these days. It has been a long time coming though. I haven’t left the country since I was 17. I was always particular about traveling – I didn’t want to "waste" money on it. Not that traveling is a waste, of course, but that I wanted to make sure I was self-sufficient and not just spending my parents money traveling during college. It seems now is that time.
Calgary was interesting (I spoke at a Media and Law Seminar). Now I’m off to Bremen, an industrial town in the North of Germany to take part in another journalism conference. This one will have a focus on science.
Wissenswerte 2007, Bremen Germany: I will be on the panel: Science journalism and Web 2.0.
Am I excited? Yes!
Will it be a vacation? No!
Things I’m Up To
- A link to something I wrote for the Press Gazette. "Time Citizen Journalism Pull Its Acts Together." I will ring more bells and whistles about it soon — as I am particularly proud of it and I think it should be highlighted in its own post. (Thanks to Martin Stabe who first contacted me to write it).
- Sooo excited about the potential behind this: CopyCamp. I brought it up casually to the San Jose Mercury News, which is already rethinking their newsroom and they seemed to like it. Noel Hidalgo, who deserves as much credit as I do in dreaming this concept up, are starting to think about how we can plan this. Expect a LONG post on this sometime soon. If you are in the Bay Area — keep a close eye on www.CopyCamp.us.
- I still have lots to do for Beatblogging. the latest NewAssignment.Net project. I will be making lots of phone calls from Germany. Also need to keep on top of the NewAssignment.Net blog and anything at OffTheBus.Net.
- I’m a little behind in my Propeller duties — I hate feeling like I have to catch up.
- It’s time to turn in my Knight News Challenge Grant (CopyCamp is one of those proposals). Between the three proposals I have in the second round, I’d consider myself a lucky duck if any of them makes it through to the next and final round.
- My phone died on me: I need to get all my old numbers back. If I had your phone number… EMAIL ME