5:16pm
As mainstream budgets shrink, could "crowdfunding" - micro-donations via the Internet - be one way forward? Seems some reporters are taking their cue from the blogosphere:
Political bloggers such as Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan, and tech blogger Jason Kottke have raised thousands of dollars from online fundraisers in the past. And freelance reporter/blogger Chris Allbritton financed a trip to cover the Iraq War in 2003 by raising nearly $15,000 from his readers, and wrote dispatches on his Back to Iraq blog.
Allbritton was able to finance a drastic change of beats, going from being a media and technology reporter to becoming a foreign correspondent covering war zones in the Middle East. By supporting his trip to Iraq, Allbritton's readers helped him gain steady work as a freelance correspondent to Time magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Daily News.
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12:13pm
Visitors to a private view held at the Neuger Riemschneider gallery at the start of the Art Basel Miami Beach festival. The series of exhibitions and events is affiliated to Switzerland's Art Basel festival. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
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11:50am
Diamond Geezer welcomes Boris's new scheme to encourage us to walk from A to B. Those "minilith" signs really do have a touch of Arthur C. Clarke about them.
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11:34am
His views on the black/mixed-race question:
He decided he belonged to the "community of humanity." I asked him whether that smacked of Tiger Woods' description of his biracial identity, which some blacks saw as a rejection of the black community. "My view has always been that I'm African-American," he said. "African Americans by definition, we're a hybrid people. One of things I loved about my mother was not only did she not feel rejected by me defining myself as an African-American, but she recognized that I was a black man in the United States and my experiences were going to be different than hers." At the same time, Obama says, when he takes his daughters to Hawaii to visit his grandmother--his mother is deceased--they visit a little old white lady from Kansas.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, who doesn't have much time for this "stupid" debate.. I think he's...
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11:24am
On a different subject all together, Coates also has a good post on the shameful stampede at a branch of Wal-Mart which resulted in the death of an employee.
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