The Berkman Center's Internet & Society conference has brought together an amazing group of people. (Friday will be webcast with more details here.) An influential group of international bloggers will be gathering for a daylong workshop called Global Voices Online - where we will discuss how to further the global conversation between citizens of different countries through blogs and participatory media. Hoder the Iranian blogger is here, and so is Oh Yeon Ho of Ohmynews, plus many others (check the Global Voices blog for links to blogs of all the participants). We're also excited to have Omar and Mohammed from Iraq the Model joining us for Saturday. Spirit of America will use the occasion to unveil their new Arabic Blog tool.
Unfortunately we won't be able to webcast the Saturday meeting live, but an audio recording will be made available online. It will also be extensively blogged. Jeff Jarvis is all over it, among many others.
This conference will mark a seminal moment in the participatory media movement in many ways. Today Dan Gillmor announced he is leaving the San Jose Mercury News to launch a new citizen-journalism project. This is big. Congratulations, Dan! It's the right time for journalists who want to shape the future of news to leave their old-media organizations.
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