KMD Digital Journalism 2010

we're having slight technical problems

computer and video conferencing system not working

Hey Mohamed

Hey Joi :-)

Hi Mohamed!

By the way, when is the world cup game writing assignment due? Was it today?

Hi Gueorgui - I think it was today or Monday?

Ah! Any possibility of an extension? I have a real interesting source who's yet to reply :)

can you see the ustream?

yes, we can see ustream

ok thanks

extension for the assignment?

Hi everybody

JoiIto: yes

sure, we can keep them going, but also maybe explain what you're doing when we get the discussion going

Mohamed, can you keep an eye on this IRC channel while you're talking because this will the primary way for us to talk to you while you're skyping in

Ok, great, thanks. Haven't actually seen a discussion on this assignment on the forum.

I thought I remembered hearing something about a world cup assignment, but then couldn't find it written on site anywhere

Joi : sure

onerick: I think it was just an email from Mohamed.

onerick : hmm....the mail should have posted to the forum. not sure why that didn't happen

the forum and mail are separate unfortunately

you can only post to the forum via the web

@gueorgui that would explain it. thanks

seems like we lost audio too

i can hear audio

the screen went blue on this side

something is disconnected on your side

Wow, there are in-video ads on ustream now

We could let Mohamed get started I guess

yea, I've had those since the beginning, and pop-ups that freeze the stream also

if we can get skype going and we could watch ustream from here

and the keio team can work on the H.323 in the background?

hi

I'm ready when you guys are..

mohamed, he's ready for you

good morning

sorry for the technical trouble

http://english.aljazeera.net/

btw, I'd like you to talk a bit about Creative Commons

and what business decision drove that too

okay cool

and how it worked out for you

How can AJ still afford to send field reporters where others can't?

and what is the business model of AJ

http://youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish

And how is the business model related with the youtube?

what is the policy w/3rd parties editing the content online?

sure

I see, thanks for the answer. So having the content spread gets even more important

=)

do you take advertising?

does and/or has the editing backfired or caused problems? <--- follow up ques. from student in class

is the website and tv station managed as separate entities? how integrated are the newsrooms?

hey Goldie

Hey Joi

Thanks!

Can you talk to us a little bit about your background and how you became head of the online news department at Aljazeera?

Thank you.

btw, I have 5 project email

I will put them together after this

@joi should we start in the keio classroom?

can someone pick on a student in the classroom :)

hehe

*cricket*

or Mohamed, was there anything in the assignment you wanted to follow up on?

btw, it's really warm in San Francisco today...

;-)

it was a glorious day in Cambridge... sunny and hot

janak, you can pick someone in the class if you want ;-)

I'm doing a story on the North Korean team for this assignment, pretty hard to find good sources :)

oh wow, that's fascinating. I'd love to know more about the North Korean team

tokyomango: it is fascinating! I'll send you the link when I post my story if you'd like.

i can't hear the question

could someone type it up for me

that would be great!

gustavo is talking about his project

Allright.

lisa [at] tokyomango [dot] com

Got it

Rebecca MacKinnon has covered North Korea a lot: http://rconversation.blogs.com/

Thanks, Joi. I'm trying to reach a Russian diplomat who's blogging a lot about North Korea right now.

@gueorgui there was a great story by thestar.ca by a journo from Montreal who briefly got access to a north korean doctor http://bit.ly/dlebsd

http://tttkkk.livejournal.com/ -- in Russian, though.

should we cont. to ask the keio students?

yeah, we're pretty flexible, but we could talk about business models some

since that's the topic

thanks, onerick!

is there anyone else in keio willing to tlak about their projects?

or anyone here who wants to skype in?

also, before we cut mohamed off and let him go back to bed

I wonder if anyone has questions

or mohamed has anything he wants to say

So after Mohamed's done, why don't we switch back to SF

and I'll interview Lisa about business models

@joi roger that!

she's a professional blogger/journalist

and we can talk about that business model

thanks Mohamed

and maybe you can help with hala's projects

project

hala : please do drop me a mail (mohamed.nanabhay@gmail.com)

she'll be quick

hala will speak about her project now

thanks mohamed

no prob - thanks for having me

Hala, see @rafik and @_jm on twitter, who may have some thoughts on this.

thanks mohamed. sorry for the tech problems

great to hear form u

btw, what is your twitter name?

@mohamed

good evening/morning everyone - please do drop me a mail if you want to chat more later :-)

Thanks Mohamed, good night!

Ok Mohamed, I will email you, thanks!!

thanks

Thanks onerick. I will check twitter.

a recent story by @tokyomango http://www.boingboing.net/features/scubakid.html

so how much do you go out for interviews? for trying to find material on the street?

and how much of it is done from your house?

thanks!

how do you get story ideas? by yourself, from others, etc. <---- ques. from student in class

As a freelancer, do you pitch to publishers more? Or do they send assignments to you?

@lisa from @janrod There are radios like SomaFM that, through a good content manage to survive solely on supporters money and also generating income from mobile streaming - iPhone / Android...

i saw a dog getting in the room

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/25/lisa-interviews-jack.html

some years ago, there was a boom of "officially" sponsored journalist bloggers. what is the scenario now? is it increasing or the tendency has changed?

Not sure if there's time, but is there a conflict between portraying a 'real Japan' and a 'wacky Japan' (Japan through a foreign lens) in terms of which one generates more money/hits for a publication?

@joi another group will use the classroom @ kmd from 1045 jst

thx!

where is ruby?

sunbathing in the other room

thanks guys!

I'll process the logs now.

woops, there goes the video

Thanks Joi & Lisa!