NowPublic.com Closes $10.6 Million Series A Financing Let by Rho Ventures and Rho Canada

– Leading Citizen Journalism Service Rises to More Than 100,000 Contributing Reporters; Expands Its Relationship with AP to Include Major AP Bureaus Across United States –
Time Magazine Names NowPublic.com One of the Top 50 Websites for 2007:  “…Nowhere are the merits of citizen journalism more apparent than at NowPublic.”
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NowPublic Gets $10.6 Million For Crowd Sourced News

It’s official:
“Crowd sourced” news network NowPublic.com has closed a $10.6 milion series A round of financing led by Rho Ventures with seed investors Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund participating.

Source: techcrunch.com via mtippett

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P2P Video Event

Last night Vancouver came out to see P2P video in the back alleys of the warehouse district.
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Michael Moore Subpoenaed

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced that the Bush Administration has subpoenaed him in the wake of his recent trip to Cuba on the July 26 episode of NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (Monday-Friday, 11:35 p.m. – 12:37 a.m. ET). “I haven’t even told my own family yet.” Moore began, “I was just [...]

Friday’s First Amendment rally at Union Square

New Yorkers are fighting for their rights to photograph their city.  If you’re around you may want to join the party:
Please join the Filmmaker/Photographer contingent at this Friday’s First Amendment rally at Union Square. Recently proposed regulations seriously threaten the rights of photographers and filmmakers to operate in NYC, and they could go into effect [...]

This is tap water

NEW YORK (Reuters) – PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

Source: news.yahoo.com via mtippett

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BOMBSHELL: FBI director says Gonzales lied!

Ka-boom!  Now this is getting interesting:
WASHINGTON – FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Thursday the government’s terrorist surveillance program was the topic of a 2004 hospital room dispute between top Bush administration officials, contradicting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ sworn Senate testimony.
Mueller was not in the hospital room at the time of the dramatic March 10, [...]

Harry Reid Rips Washington Post Editors As “War Cheerleaders” Unconcerned About Facts

I can’t figure out where the Washington Post is coming from but the Senate Majority Leader has a strong point of view. Harry Reid slammed the paper’s editors in a sharply worded letter :
In an unusually confrontational move towards a major news organization, Harry Reid has come out swinging against The Washington Post, accusing [...]

Bush: The Most Unpopular President in History

Now it’s not only the rest  of the world that hates Bush.  Seems Americans aren’t too fond of him either:
President Bush is a competitive guy. But this is one contest he would rather lose. With 18 months left in office, he is in the running for most unpopular president in the history of modern polling.

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Brody Does SA

Having seen the legendary man speak, I considered putting this in ‘entertainment’:
GIBS (the Gordon Institute of Business Science) invites you and your colleagues to attend this one-day executive conference on Cutting Edge Mobile and Web Marketing.
Any company that is not using wireless technology to market themselves is just one step from closing shop. Consumers [...]