[thechat] x10 to the rescue?

[Joe Crawford]

isaac wrote:
> I don't think it's that likely.
> 
> I know many people with a camera who could lean out the window or take
> photos from the doorway below if a building down the road exploded.
> 
> But who do you know that can afford to dump their job temporarily, risk
> their life to fly over to Afghanistan, get into the action, and then get the
> info back out onto their personal weblog? You lose $x00 per week in pay,
> $x000 for the flights, accommodation costs, etc. You risk having hands
> severed, or being executed for breaking Taliban laws, or violence against
> anyone of Western appearance. And all of that in exchange for /. linking to
> your site, crushing your server, and running up hundreds of dollars in data
> costs.
> 
> The journalists you've mentioned are likely funded by mainstream media
> companies (like CNN) and supported by networks of contacts. I don't expect
> guerilla journalism to play a significant role in what will occur in
> Afghanistan.

There's always freelancers not affiliated with any news org in
particular. And the wire services.

Anyway, I think x -"spy on your neighbor in the shower and put up with
our popunder ads"-10 should donate millions of the little wireless
cameras to drop on Afghanistan. In doing so they will provide much
needed on-the-ground images from Afghanistan. :-)

	- Joe <http://artlung.com/>