Dan Gillmor's Reboot talk

Here are my notes from Dan Gillmor's talk at Reboot ("Making the News").

Assembling an amateur newsroom

* US SpaceCom asked for amateurs to ftp up pix of the shuttle
disaster

* BBC asked for demonstrators to send in photos

* Self-assembling newsroom: group real-time linking to war
coverage

* Moblogging: Not sure on the concept, but sure that it matters,
it's a big deal that people can take photos and send them
straight to the Web (it will only get worse: the cameras are
getting smaller). Implies that journos will get a lot of pix from

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