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• 06.11.08
  Somewhere in this land of Yoosk and Kluster lies an enpowerment tool of rich potential; it may be the key that unlocks a genuine, community ‘news desk’. General, Journalism, MLW | (0)

  First and foremost, credit. This is Seamus McCauley's 'spot'. http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2008/06/second-order-reasoning-comes-to-user-edited-news.html And he's quite right - there is something intriguing going on here as you discover once you start to nose round a bit more - http://knewsroom.com/news/home/learn_more It all starts with the bright young man from www.kluster.com - the bit I really liked is the 'what happened here...' link; the black and white, Manhattan sky-line stuff is wholly over-shadowed by the restless narrator with all this obvious vitality and energy bubbling up from within. And the fact that he doesn't know where or what next. But almost rejoices in being in that particular space. It ...

  Tagged: Kluster.com, MyLocalWriter.com, Seamus McCauley, Shannon Matthews, Yoosk.com
  
• 05.15.08
  It’s my blog and I’ll be as bitter and twisted as I like. Paul, Tim – you should have been there boys. I’d have bought you a beer in Vegas… General, Journalism | (3)

  I guess we really ought to be generous in our praise of the winner - or rather the only, UK-based entry to win through to the big cheque and Las Vegas prize-giving stage of this year's Knight News Challenge. For those of you who don't actually know what the Knight News Challenge is - www.newschallenge.org - it is a highly-laudable effort by the Knight Foundation people to further innovation in community-centred, digital news. In their own words: "We are a national foundation with local roots. We choose, as our founders John S. and James L. Knight chose, to focus on journalism and ...

  Tagged: JEECamp, Knight News Challenge, Las Vegas, Paul Bradshaw, Yoosk.com
  

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