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07/30/2001 Archived Entry: "30-July-2001 -- Just-in-Time Journalism"

Just-in-Time Journalism (CamWorld) -- "Could some clever entrepreneur assemble small groups of journalists, equip them with laptops, and send them to conferences around the country and the world to record the events in a near-realtime manner?"

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Back when I worked at Medscape (http://www.medscape.com in 1998, will Bill Seitz of http://webseitz.editthispage.com) we equiped writers with Macs or eMates (Newtons with keyboards, remember those?) to report from medical conferences. The writers didn't have their hands on a content management system, so a little email was involved, but it was near-real time. Plus, we included audio interviews recorded direct-to-disc using the Macs.

Examples:
http://www.medscape.com/Home/Topics/multispecialty/directories/dir-MULT.ConfSummaries.html

Posted by Victor @ 07/31/2001 02:06 PM EST

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