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Chuff'ed to be on the #5 on the Now Public Vancouver list with Rebecca, Tris and whole bunch of fine folks including the blog father Darren, and Kris and Boris. Let's rock it as Tris said! More fun, more media, more insight, more, more, more! See you at BarCamp Vancouver tomorrow!

QUOTE from Tris - Most of Vancouver’s MostPublic list will be at BarCamp this weekend I’m sure

Congrats to everyone on the list. Now let’s rock it.

[From A View from the Isle by Tris Hussey]

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Go NowPublic go! Go Drupal go! Now if only NowPublic had a blog where could find these cool tidbits rather than finding them elsewhere :P !

FROM NowPublic is one of the best | Dries Buytaert:

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Time Magazine named NowPublic as one of the best 50 websites of 2007. Congratulations!

(Disclaimer: I am an advisor to NowPublic.)

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Here's my (very biased :-) !) notes, tips and links from Monday May 15th's HTCE What "What Citizen Journalism Means to Corporate Communications" panel with Darren, Tod and Kris:

• Other event photos and Roland's N70 videos uploaded in real time over the mobile phone network via ShoZu.
• Hey Nokia and Fido as Kris suggested, how about offering an "affordable unlimited data plan for bloggers" perhaps in conjunction with the existing Nokia bloggers relations program bundled with high end Nokia cameraphones like the forthcoming N93. Bloggers are influencers for others who buy phones and by offering them this, you'll get lots of free online PR and some great feedback on your cameraphones' video and photo features.
• Other Vancouver based citizen journalism experts (apologies to those I leave out) who not only are doing "it" but get "it":
• Susan Gardner and Travis Smith of Hop Studios - J school trained, worked at real newspapers, fully versed in traditional media and blogs, videoblogs and podcasting and citizen journalism
• Michael Tippett of NowPublic - Vancouver based worldwide Citizen Journalism site where you can publish text, photos, audio and video and also request coverage of events you are interested in
• Mark Hamilton - Kwantlen College journalism instructor (who is a veteran of many community newspapers and other established media outlets) - must read his blog!
• Other links and sites to check out:
  • Urban Vancouver, Beyond Robson and Metroblogging Vancouver - some Vancouver places where citizen journalism is happening
  • PressThink - Professor Jay Rosen of NYU
  • Pomo Blog - deconstructing established media from somebody who's been there
  • BlufftonToday - one of the best citizen journalism sites on the web
  • PR is dead - well not really, but worth checking out if I do say so myself :-) !
  • Poynter Online mailing list - newspaper people moaning :-) about the current state of the established media and figuring out what comes next

Well, I had to deactivate and reactivate Shozu on my N70 and now it successfully uploads both photos and videos to Shozu but unfortunately when Shozu emails the video to blip.tv and Now Public, it's not showing up (or they are both being very slow). I know that Shozu has the video and that it emails properly because when I get Shozu to email me, I get the email with the video attachment now problem! This is weird because 3GP from my old 7610 worked fine and quite quickly via Shozu to blip.tv, perhaps blip.tv and Now Public can't handle MP4 which is the video format from the N70?

Aaargh, email is really the wrong way to do this. We need a standard video upload API. How about the Atom Publishing Protocol?

Congrats to Michael Tippett for getting Dries, Dan Gillmor and JD Lasica to be advisors and Leonard Brody to be co-CEO (what ever that means :-) ) ! Awesome team! The rest is blood, sweat, code and marketing! Disclosures: Dries is a friend, Bryght (our little startup) uses Drupal which Now Public uses, Michael is a friend. I've been lucky enough to meet both Dan and JD (his book Darknet is awesome BTW, a great primer for those who want to know about Web 2.0 and the fight for the lightnet). And finally, I've met Leonard Brody, had some great chats with him and had a podcast with Leonard about his book, Everything I needed to know abut business I learned from a Canadian!