Welcome!

This week we are going to use some of the things we learned in class and produce a story or two.

Search the blogs and twitter for trending topics.
Decide on a story.

Produce it and send it up to a bunch of video hosting sites including iReport.

Think about how to title and describe it for most reach.

Then publicize it using blogs and twitter...

Share your thoughts in the comments...

Open Letter to the Future President
http://vimeo.com/2139836

Google - Explore flu trends across the U.S. - Crowd sourcing where the crowd doesn't actively contribute. Their Google searches are compiled.

http://www.google.org/flutrends/

Brian Lehrer asking audience to do research
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Follow the BU students reporting on the election at Election 08 BU Student View.

JD Lasica wrote up a recap of Digital Hollywood and in it he talks about getting news:

I repeated my mantra that the "filter" (gatekeeper role) of the traditional media can serve a beneficial purpose but more often than not turns into a conventional wisdom echo chamber where self-appointed gasbags declare winners and losers and play up or ignore news stories on their own whims, with little rhyme or reason. To get

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Crowdsourcing Request! Read any ten pages of the 110 page Bailout Bill and comment on air at 10am. http://tinyurl.com/3gl6fc

From twitter.