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Got a cellphone? AllVoices.com: user-generated news

Here's a new site in beta you might want to check out and share: AllVoices.com. AV describes itself as "a global community formed around news, events and people; a platform for diverse and unedited views and reporting, ranging from first hand accounts, to local and global news reports, blogs, videos and images; and a place for context and discussion." Let's do a roadtest and check back here later...

Rene's videoblog: 'Brownbloggers West' at Blogher

We look forward to viewing & sharing Rene's v-blog (videoblog) of a most interesting Brownbloggers session, Sat, 30 July 2005 at Blogher. The two panelists were Nichelle Stephens of "Nichelle Newsletter", and Laina Dawes from Toronto, whose blog is "Writing is Fighting ." (See Rene's photo, below.) I could not resist bringing up Harvard's infamous 'Project Implicit' - the IAT race test - which, as I personally experience it, evidently boils down to "white folks good; Black folks very, very bad" - which, even when one 'allows' for racism & white supremacy, is not the whole story, not the story of everyone who's done the test, is extraordinarily slanted and, well ... straight-up racist; particularly in a specifically anti-Black way. During Brownbloggers West (at Blogher) there was lots of discussion, including Laina Dawes' Black Canadian blogging perspective. V-blog producer Rene's other, fascinating projects include Webzine2005 - dealing with "independent online publishing", Rise Up Network (RUN), and the Luxomedia blog. Its motto: "be the media." Thank you for the documentation, Rene.

Brownblogger West panelists Laina Dawes (l) and Nichelle Stephens (r). Dawes blogs from Canada and Stephens from NYC. Photo courtesy Rene (renegade)