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citizen/video journalism workshop in penang

STICKY POST (stay till 20/7) please scroll down for new posts. hey guys, remember the citizen/video journalism workshop by malaysiakini that i went to in feb/march this year? we were the first batch from penang and that was the basic training. recently, a few of us chosen ones went for …

an open letter to a muslim journalist ‘spy’

this is a good one from my friend, martin jalleh on the issue of the 2 muslim journalist spying in a catholic church.  well, martin is such a profilic excellent writer, anything from him is good. have you read his tribute to michael jackson? he sent it to me same …

do you flip?

no, i don’t mean flip as in, you know, to move suddenly or jerkily or to turn over suddenly. i mean do you use the flip video? maybe you have not heard of it before. yes, there is a small, light, hand-held basic video camera which is very easy to …

goodbye and thanks malaysiakini

UPDATED: ok the video i mentioned is up on youtube now. sorry for the ‘boilsoft’ watermark on it (which i use to convert my avi file to mpeg). i happened to download this software that leaves watermark. will try some other software later. ORIGINAL POST: especially to our CJ (citizen …

today, last day at malaysiakini

yes, today will be the last day of our advanced citizen/video journalism training at malaysiakini office. on saturday and sunday, we had two very good speakers. saturday, janet steele, (pic below) who is associate professor of media and public affairs based in US was the speaker. her session was on …

2 days so far of CJ training

UPDATED 4 JULY 1700 HRS – WITH PHOTOS (note: CJ = citizen journalism) it had been 2 days of classes at malaysiakini. i arrived in KL on 30 june afternoon and met up with my friend, sharon, where we went wandering around mid-valley. checked in the hotel in the evening. …

advanced training on citizen/video journalism

from today until next monday (6 july), i’ll be away in KL for malaysiakini’s advanced training on the above subject. 6 of us from penang will be there and there will be some from perak and sarawak and of course KL. this is going to be an intensive training – …

bloggers and law forum

UPDATED 30 JUNE 0015 HRS – ok i had blog about the forum but it is in my other blog, ‘reflections’ (CJ blog). please hop over there to read. yes i did attend the forum on saturday. started to blog on it at 1.00 am but can’t finish it (lots …