[Air-l] Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World - Conference - June 29 - July 1 2006

[Steven Clift]

Democracy & Independence:
Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World

If you plan to register, the special up to 34% DoWire discount expires on
May 26.  Register now following the "important" instructions at the top of:

    http://mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire

Also, if you'd like to connect with other citizen media experts and
practitioners, sign up to be a charter member of this proposed online
community of practice on my DoWire Groups site:

    http://groups.dowire.org/groups/citizenmedia

Finally, if you are undecided about the conference, check out the exciting
list of attendees so far:

    http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki

Including:

   1. Richard M Anderson, VillageSoup.com
   2. Frank Baker, Media Literacy Clearinghouse
   3. Paul Bass, New Haven Independent
   4. Marty Baron, The Boston Globe
   5. Ken Bazinet, New York Daily News
   6. Peter Bhatia, Portland Oregonian
   7. Larry Bloch, Radio Free Brattleboro
   8. Steve Brant, Trimtab Management Systems [1] (Huffington Post blogger)
   9. Scott Brodeur, Advance Internet
  10. John Burke, World Assn. of Newspapers Editor's Weblog
  11. David Carlson, Society of Professional Journalists
  12. Don Chan, DeAnza College
  13. Steven Clift, Democracies Online Newswire and E-Democracy.Org
  14. Kristin Collins, Island Institute (Maine)
  15. Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America
  16. Vin Crosbie, Digital Deliverance and Corante's Rebuilding Media
  17. Rafael DeGennaro, ReadtheBill.org
  18. Bill Densmore, Media Giraffe Project
  19. Jon Donley, NOLA.COM / Times-Picayune
  20. Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute
  21. Amy Eisman, American University School of Communications
  22. Fabrice Florin, NewsTrust
  23. Ed Fouhy, Pew Center on the States
  24. Jeffrey Fox, ConsumerPower.org
  25. Steve Fox, WashingtonPost.com
  26. Steve Garfield, Rockeboom.com
  27. Paul Grabowicz, UC-Berkeley Journalism School
  28. Stephen Gray, Newspaper Next at the American Press Institute
  29. Tish Grier, Corante Media Hub
  30. Chris Grotke, iBrattleboro.com
  31. Donna Halper, Donna Halper & Associates
  32. Teresa Hanafin, Boston.com/Boston Globe
  33. Richard Howe, LowellDems.org
  34. Ellen Hume, U of Mass. Media/Democracy Center/Ethnic Media Project
  35. Aldon Hynes (BLOG), Center for Online Investigative Journalism
  36. Bill Israel, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
  37. Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash.COM
  38. Gary Kebbel, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
  39. Jiah Kim, Free Speech TV
  40. Jemima Kiss, independent blogger-writer, U.K.
  41. Staci Kramer, PaidContent.ORG
  42. Peter Krasilovsky, Krasilovsky Consulting
  43. Melissa Krodman, Project Think Different, Boston
  44. Lise LePage, iBrattleboro.com
  45. Charles Lewis, founder, Center for Public Integrity
  46. Donna Liu, University Channel
  47. Mark Lopez, Ctr for Info & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
  48. Christopher Lydon, Open Source Radio
  49. Christopher Mackin, Ownership Associates Inc. [2]
  50. Thomas Marban, PopUrls.com
  51. Michael McAlpin, WGBH-TV, Boston
  52. John McManus, Grade the News
  53. Philip Meyer, Univ. of North Carolina
  54. Tom Middleton, MarketWatch Inc.
  55. Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot.com
  56. Terry Mollner, The Trusteeship Institute
  57. Christian Nelson, Springfield Technical Community College
  58. Don Ogden, WMass Indymedia [3]
  59. Chris Peck, editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis
  60. Barry Parr, CoastSider and Jupiter Research
  61. Chellie Pingree, president, Common Cause
  62. David Platt, Island Institute, Maine
  63. Vikki Porter, Knight New Media Center, Univ. of Southern California
  64. Jeff Potter, Potter Publishing Studio
  65. Adam Powell, USC-Virterbi Integrated Media Center
  66. Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project
  67. Daniela Reif, Omidyar Network
  68. Colin Rhinesmith, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and ACMEBoston
  69. Tom Rosenstiel, Project on Excellence in Journalism
  70. Craig Sandler, State House News Service (Mass.)
  71. Elena Sassower, Center for Judicial Accountability
  72. David Scribner, Scribbyworld.com
  73. Jim Shaffer, Southern Maine Univ. Business School
  74. Josh Silver, FreePress.net
  75. Stephen Silha, Media that Matters
  76. Norm Sims, University of Massachusetts
  77. Michael Skoler, Minnesota Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism
  78. Tom Stites, Unitarian Universalist Assn. and Ctr for Public Integrity
  79. Michael Stoll, Grade the News
  80. Teresa Styles, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State College
  81. Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers White House columnist
  82. Richard Viguerie, author, political strategist
  83. Leslie-Jean Thornton, Cronkite journalism school, AZ State Univ
  84. Jerry Villacres, Ethnic Media Project of Boston
  85. Janine Warner, tech author / Internet consultant
  86. George White, Center for Communications and Community, UCLA
  87. Robert Washburn, Loyalist College, Canada
  88. Rob Williams, Action Coalition for Media Education
  89. Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation
  90. Josh Wilson, Newsdesk.org
  91. Ndesanjo Macha, Kiswahili blog, Digital Africa  


Cheers,
Steven Clift
Democracies Online
http://dowire.org

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Steven Clift - clift at publicus.net 

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