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7 questions on the new Knight News Challenge application - Knight Foundation

Link:

http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2012/2/23/7-questions-new-knigh...

What do you propose to do? [20 words]

Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]

Describe the network with which you intend to build or work. [50 words]

Why will it work? [100 words]

Who is working on it? [100 words]

What part of the project have you already built? [100 words]

How would you sustain the project after the funding expires? [50 words]

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Wikipedia and Bin Laden

At 10:30 or so last night, I was on a phone call with Mike Anello and Earl, another coworker, when Mike tells us that the President is coming on TV for a special announcement in a few minutes.

I'm like, "the President of the United States?"

I searched Google News - nothing seemed to be there yet. Twitter was exploding with it, confirming what Mike believed the announcement was about: Osama Bin Laden had been killed, and the President was going to tell us on Live TV.

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Inspiration comes from our Environment

In my past few years trying to create community, I have had to make a lot of decisions, whether conscious or not, about my environment. By environment I mean not only the room I'm sitting in, or the street I'm on, or the neighborhood, or even just the state of the US. I'm also talking about the people around me, individual beings, their companies, organizations, movements and activities. Then there are the memes, which seem to travel on air currents, over IP tubes, or via word of mouth at varying speeds.

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New Media Orlando Meetup

Had a great meetup last night. I've left some audio notes here.

Download New Media Producers Meetup

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On the end of Terrestrial TV Broadcasting

There was a big discussion last week on my local geeky mailing list that started because of a mention that local TV stations may stop broadcasting over-the-air for free.

From Yahoo News:

The recession has squeezed advertising further, forcing broadcasters to accelerate their push for new revenue to pay for programming.

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Florida Opportunity Fund

I've been a long-time follower of Dan Rua, and I've even had the pleasure of meeting the guy. His business, Inflexion, is venture capital - they invest in biotech and technology startup companies. It's a great thing for the state of Florida to have funding like that available locally.

However, for smaller, "early stage" companies, venture funding is not really the way to go. There are phases to these things... and that's not Dan's business.

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BlogOrlando, Pleasure Island's Last Hurrah

The dates for BlogOrlando have been announced. Held at Rollins College from Sept 25-27th, with the main event being held on Saturday the 27th (not Friday like previous years). If you haven't been to BlogOrlando yet, it's a really fantastic introduction to the world of blogging, and there should be lots of fun surprises this year. Last year there were some great discussions, and a few keynote presentations by folks like Shel Israel and Chris Huer (google their names).

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