(iverson's) currentbuzz: My Boss Has Heard About NowPublic

Ah the angst of being a digital native from the Boomer Generation. I've been wired as long as Al Gore (as in playing Zork and StarTrek on mainframes from CRTs) but not as a programmer, as someone who just thought it was a good way to communicate. My TV blew up during the 72 Olympics, and other than one brief stint during the last month of pregnancy, TV wasn't part of my media diet (still isn't.) Of course with NPR news and Chicago Public Radio and newspapers, you don't need to watch 30 sec. sound bites to know what is happening in the news. As the Internet has grown as a news media, so has my use of it.

I took to blogging as soon as I figured out RadioUserland though as a non-programmer I still use blogger, too. NowPublic attracted me first because it has such an easy-to-use interface. When I posted some stories about cats watching TV and graphic novels, I like NowPublic's connection to other people who sent lots of images. The NowPublic editors or news wranglers are a good group, too. So, I've been posting to my blog and NowPublic, though I consider whether I should just use NowPublic, and drop my own blog.

I teach Journalism at a college. I share my work with my colleagues as best I can, but I find lots of them "look" at the Web, but that means they "look" without engaging as they would with a piece of paper or some vid clip. Well finally I got an email from my boss alerting me NowPublic's financing. Cool. Now what will it take for me to get her to realize I write for them?

Time Magazine lists NowPublic among its top 50 websites of 2007.
"I promise you, in 18 months NowPublic will be, by reach, the largest news agency in the world," start-up co-founder Len Brody told AFP.

Source: breitbart.com