Conference

Listen to the Interview with Hossein Derakhshan, Hoder.com & Iranian Bridge Blogger (Length: 8:53)

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Listen to the Interview with Mindy Finn (Length: 7:23)

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Listen to the Interview with Halley Suitt of Halley's Comment Blog (Length: 18:18)

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Listen to the Interview with Chris Nolan of Spot-On.com (Length: 10:05)

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Listen to the Interview with Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder and CEO of Meetup.com (Length: 8:39)

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I will be attending a conference next week put on by Robert David Steele's Open Source Solutions called Information Operations, Open Source Intelligence, & Peacekeeping Intelligence.

There will be an interesting mix of government intelligence professionals, corporate competitive intelligence professionals, knowledge management experts and embassy representatives from around the world.

Steele has granted me permission to film interviews with various speakers throughout the conference, and I will be particularly interested in capturing insights that professional intelligence analysts can provide to investigative and participatory journalism.

I attended the We Media Conference as a fellowship recipient back on October 5th, and I was able to pick up eight more interviews with some very interesting people who are at the core of both old media and new media innovation.

I plan to start releasing these interviews as podcasts very soon -- and you can go here if you'd like to listen to the We Media conference sessions.

UPDATE: The podcasts of all of the following interviews have now been posted. You can click through each of the names or find them all here.

	Tom Curley	President/CEO of the Associated Press
	Richard Sambrook	Director, BBC Global News Division
	Merrill Brown	Media Consultant, MMB Media LLC
	Susan Mernit	Digital Media Consultant, 5ive
	Andrew Nachison	Director, The Media Center
	Lex Alexander	Citizen Journalism Coordinator, Greensboro News-Record
	Steve Rubel	Public Relations Blogger, MicroPersuasion
	Andy Carvin	The Digital Divide Network

Below is a follow-up that I sent to Gloria Pan so that she could use it for some grants that they were applying for.

I got an awesome surprise for my 29th birthday today -- I was awarded with a fellowship to attend the We Media Conference in New York City!

This is really great news for me and The Echo Chamber Project.

Not only does it does is waive the $695 fee, but more importantly the American Press Institute's Media Center will be publishing a statement from me about my project on their website as one of the 15 fellowship recipients.

UPDATE: He is the We Media announcement about the 15 fellowship recipients.

I've been back from a Conference on Consciousness and Healing put on by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for a few days now, but my Internet has been down again preventing me from making too many updates.

My wife and I attended the conference for our personal and professional interests, and I was able to conduct 10 brief stand-up interviews with consciousness researchers, quantum physicists, human rights advocates, Worldview & Values researchers, and leaders from the Complementary & Alternative Medicine movement.

What insights did I gain?

Well, there are actually a lot of parallels between the conflicts between Objective Mainstream Media vs. Subjective Blogs / New Media Technologies and between Objective Mainstream Medicine vs. Subjective Mind-Body Healing techniques.

The conference participants provided a lot of insight for the importance of holistic thinking, being inclusive of many different perspectives, how subjectivity and worldviews filter perception, and the importance of how community and collaboration can be facilitated through relationships and conversation.

I got a lot of great sound bites to flesh some of these ideas out, and I plan on introducing some of the concepts in my videoblog in order to start spreading some of these ideas to a wider audience. I intend for this to help build community and momentum around this project to develop the tools for collaborative citizen videojournalism that makes it both viable and scalable.

Below is a list of the people that I interviewed at the Consciousness & Healing Conference

I didn't attend the BloggerCon III conference back on November 6, 2004, but I was able to listen to the Journalism session because IT Conversations recorded the entire conference and made it available online for anyone in the world to hear.

Rosen's comment at the end of the session jumped out at me because I think he has an important insight for how blogs may be a more natural way for how people consume information. Blog readers start from the opinions of the bloggers they trust, and then they read the factual details if there's some type of conflict or argument -- or if they're interested in learning more.