Democracy & Independence: Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World If you plan to register, the special up to 34% DoWire discount expires on May 26. Register now following the "important" instructions at the top of: http://mediagiraffe.org/invite-dowire Also, if you'd like to connect with other citizen media experts and practitioners, sign up to be a charter member of this proposed online community of practice on my DoWire Groups site: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/citizenmedia Finally, if you are undecided about the conference, check out the exciting list of attendees so far: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki Including: 1. Richard M Anderson, VillageSoup.com 2. Frank Baker, Media Literacy Clearinghouse 3. Paul Bass, New Haven Independent 4. Marty Baron, The Boston Globe 5. Ken Bazinet, New York Daily News 6. Peter Bhatia, Portland Oregonian 7. Larry Bloch, Radio Free Brattleboro 8. Steve Brant, Trimtab Management Systems [1] (Huffington Post blogger) 9. Scott Brodeur, Advance Internet 10. John Burke, World Assn. of Newspapers Editor's Weblog 11. David Carlson, Society of Professional Journalists 12. Don Chan, DeAnza College 13. Steven Clift, Democracies Online Newswire and E-Democracy.Org 14. Kristin Collins, Island Institute (Maine) 15. Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America 16. Vin Crosbie, Digital Deliverance and Corante's Rebuilding Media 17. Rafael DeGennaro, ReadtheBill.org 18. Bill Densmore, Media Giraffe Project 19. Jon Donley, NOLA.COM / Times-Picayune 20. Rick Edmonds, The Poynter Institute 21. Amy Eisman, American University School of Communications 22. Fabrice Florin, NewsTrust 23. Ed Fouhy, Pew Center on the States 24. Jeffrey Fox, ConsumerPower.org 25. Steve Fox, WashingtonPost.com 26. Steve Garfield, Rockeboom.com 27. Paul Grabowicz, UC-Berkeley Journalism School 28. Stephen Gray, Newspaper Next at the American Press Institute 29. Tish Grier, Corante Media Hub 30. Chris Grotke, iBrattleboro.com 31. Donna Halper, Donna Halper & Associates 32. Teresa Hanafin, Boston.com/Boston Globe 33. Richard Howe, LowellDems.org 34. Ellen Hume, U of Mass. Media/Democracy Center/Ethnic Media Project 35. Aldon Hynes (BLOG), Center for Online Investigative Journalism 36. Bill Israel, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst 37. Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash.COM 38. Gary Kebbel, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 39. Jiah Kim, Free Speech TV 40. Jemima Kiss, independent blogger-writer, U.K. 41. Staci Kramer, PaidContent.ORG 42. Peter Krasilovsky, Krasilovsky Consulting 43. Melissa Krodman, Project Think Different, Boston 44. Lise LePage, iBrattleboro.com 45. Charles Lewis, founder, Center for Public Integrity 46. Donna Liu, University Channel 47. Mark Lopez, Ctr for Info & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement 48. Christopher Lydon, Open Source Radio 49. Christopher Mackin, Ownership Associates Inc. [2] 50. Thomas Marban, PopUrls.com 51. Michael McAlpin, WGBH-TV, Boston 52. John McManus, Grade the News 53. Philip Meyer, Univ. of North Carolina 54. Tom Middleton, MarketWatch Inc. 55. Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot.com 56. Terry Mollner, The Trusteeship Institute 57. Christian Nelson, Springfield Technical Community College 58. Don Ogden, WMass Indymedia [3] 59. Chris Peck, editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis 60. Barry Parr, CoastSider and Jupiter Research 61. Chellie Pingree, president, Common Cause 62. David Platt, Island Institute, Maine 63. Vikki Porter, Knight New Media Center, Univ. of Southern California 64. Jeff Potter, Potter Publishing Studio 65. Adam Powell, USC-Virterbi Integrated Media Center 66. Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project 67. Daniela Reif, Omidyar Network 68. Colin Rhinesmith, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and ACMEBoston 69. Tom Rosenstiel, Project on Excellence in Journalism 70. Craig Sandler, State House News Service (Mass.) 71. Elena Sassower, Center for Judicial Accountability 72. David Scribner, Scribbyworld.com 73. Jim Shaffer, Southern Maine Univ. Business School 74. Josh Silver, FreePress.net 75. Stephen Silha, Media that Matters 76. Norm Sims, University of Massachusetts 77. Michael Skoler, Minnesota Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism 78. Tom Stites, Unitarian Universalist Assn. and Ctr for Public Integrity 79. Michael Stoll, Grade the News 80. Teresa Styles, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State College 81. Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers White House columnist 82. Richard Viguerie, author, political strategist 83. Leslie-Jean Thornton, Cronkite journalism school, AZ State Univ 84. Jerry Villacres, Ethnic Media Project of Boston 85. Janine Warner, tech author / Internet consultant 86. George White, Center for Communications and Community, UCLA 87. Robert Washburn, Loyalist College, Canada 88. Rob Williams, Action Coalition for Media Education 89. Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation 90. Josh Wilson, Newsdesk.org 91. 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