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2:32pm Thursday, 17th April 2003

Eat your heart out John Simpson, Kate Adie and all the rest. Thanks to the new generation of wireless technologies the age of the amateur telejournalist is upon us. She captures the footage you don't normally see on the BBC or CNN and she broadcasts it in real-time via the web. The possibilities for politics are tantalising (remember that home video of Rodney King being beaten up by the LAPD? A butterfly in Brazil flaps its wings....) Read more on peer-to-peer reporting here

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Don't know exactly what the UK position is, but recently there's been a lot of interest in this issue in Japan. They were first into this market, and so may be worth a look - for example, http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030325b3.htm
Posted by jackdalton jackdalton  at 11:15pm on Thursday, 17th April 2003

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