Coverage

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Originally uploaded by revraikes.

A writer for NowPublic.com, a user contributed news site, asked to use some of my photos from the Sunset Junction Street Fair (L.A., CA 8/26/06) that I posted on flickr.com.

I am quite pleased that independent news still has a few gasps left in it and that the internet community is taking shape the way it has recently. Of course everybody is still concerned with money and property rights, but the channels and outlets for shared information have grown by leaps and bounds.

We can now see virtually any music video/tv clip we ever wanted, actively instead of passively. People are networking through places like flickr, blogs and NowPublic to create dynamic, entertaining coverage without a corporate agenda. Let's just hope congress doesn't mess it all up...but I'm wagering that that is just a smokescreen for something more devious in the wings.

I had to sign-up in order to allow my images to be shared, so I may get back into the newsie biz if I have anything worthy of print (I used to write under this moniker for a free indie paper, now defunct).