"A blogger's brave journey"
is the title C.W.Kim dubbed the Web 2.0 Trip to the U.S. I'm planning on.
So, here's the gist of it. I've been greatly moved by NewAssignment.net, primiarly led by Jay Rosen, whom I have enormous respect for. NewAssingment.net is an initiative trying to see what happens when every process of journalism becomes open-sourced, including the financial part.
With that in mind, I'm planning on a trip to the U.S. in about 2 weeks. The goal of the trip is mainly to cover the Web 2.0 Expo and also other Web 2.0 related bloggers and companies with myself as a citizen reporter, live-blogger, and journalist. My belief and the value proposition are that I can bring back better information and insight based on my expertise in the Web 2.0 field than many professionally trained journalists in Korea, who might possess better skills as journalists, but not as much expertise in the field. But I'm doing it in a way that I want to get funded and sponsored by citizens, mostly my blog readers. (I'm one of the leading Web 2.0 bloggers in Korea with one of the largest readership among IT bloggers).
I'm opening the agenda-setting, interviewee-picking, question-selecting processes to the public as well. While I won't be able to make every single request actually, I'm trying my best to squeeze in all of them to make them into one big nice output. :)
My objectives are clear: 1) to try to explore and see what kind of citizen journalism this trip will bring about, 2) to bring lots of great information, news, and perspectives from the Web 2.0 region to Korea, and 3) to bring lots of great information, news, and perspectives about the Korean Web to the Web 2.0 people and companies in the U.S.
While thinking of this at first was such a daunting task to come up with, the execution part seems to be even more difficult. However, I've been very grateul at how many people have been gracious enough to give me helping hands. For one, I've been able to raise $2,800 so far, which covers nearly about 3/4 of the entire trip cost. What's even greater is that the trip cost was initially expected to be at around $6,000, but again, with many people helping me out to cut the cost, through providing places to stay over, giving free rides from places to places, and letting me borrow their cellphones, now I'm estimating it to be down to $4,000. Other helps also came in the form of basically hooking me up with many "celebrity" figures in the Valley area; introducing my trip to them and having interviews set up. I'm down on my knees with thanks for everyone who's helped me so far. And the help continues. :)
I actually could've gone on this trip with my own expense; after all, the cost ain't THAT bad. I also had opportunities to have corporate sponsorships. However, I've taken guts to start the citizen-sponsorship program in order to see what happens with this. This is why I'm even more grateful for all the helps. I almost feel there indeed is a cause in all this.
To make the process as transparent as possible, I've set up a blog (unfortunately, all in Korean), which covers how sponsorship is going, how I'm going to travel, whom I'm meeting, and also a place where people can throw in their ideas.
To be honest, I'm scared and excited at the same time. I'm glad that I'll be able to meet up with a great number of people in the U.S., learn much from them, and deliver the same lessons to my blog readers.
Are you gonna be there? Maybe we can hook up as well!
By the way, my name is Taewoo Danny Kim. You can always just call me "Danny". ;)
p.s. I'm also working on a blog named "TechnoKimchi", which will cover tech in Asia. It's still in its dormant stage, but once it comes out, it won't necessarily be a cold and dry tech/biz analysis blog, but rather more goofy and fun blog about everything surrounding the Web in Asia--tech, mobile, biz, culture, gaming, teens, and even philosophy. Oh, maybe even politics. :)
is the title C.W.Kim dubbed the Web 2.0 Trip to the U.S. I'm planning on.
So, here's the gist of it. I've been greatly moved by NewAssignment.net, primiarly led by Jay Rosen, whom I have enormous respect for. NewAssingment.net is an initiative trying to see what happens when every process of journalism becomes open-sourced, including the financial part.
With that in mind, I'm planning on a trip to the U.S. in about 2 weeks. The goal of the trip is mainly to cover the Web 2.0 Expo and also other Web 2.0 related bloggers and companies with myself as a citizen reporter, live-blogger, and journalist. My belief and the value proposition are that I can bring back better information and insight based on my expertise in the Web 2.0 field than many professionally trained journalists in Korea, who might possess better skills as journalists, but not as much expertise in the field. But I'm doing it in a way that I want to get funded and sponsored by citizens, mostly my blog readers. (I'm one of the leading Web 2.0 bloggers in Korea with one of the largest readership among IT bloggers).
I'm opening the agenda-setting, interviewee-picking, question-selecting processes to the public as well. While I won't be able to make every single request actually, I'm trying my best to squeeze in all of them to make them into one big nice output. :)
My objectives are clear: 1) to try to explore and see what kind of citizen journalism this trip will bring about, 2) to bring lots of great information, news, and perspectives from the Web 2.0 region to Korea, and 3) to bring lots of great information, news, and perspectives about the Korean Web to the Web 2.0 people and companies in the U.S.
While thinking of this at first was such a daunting task to come up with, the execution part seems to be even more difficult. However, I've been very grateul at how many people have been gracious enough to give me helping hands. For one, I've been able to raise $2,800 so far, which covers nearly about 3/4 of the entire trip cost. What's even greater is that the trip cost was initially expected to be at around $6,000, but again, with many people helping me out to cut the cost, through providing places to stay over, giving free rides from places to places, and letting me borrow their cellphones, now I'm estimating it to be down to $4,000. Other helps also came in the form of basically hooking me up with many "celebrity" figures in the Valley area; introducing my trip to them and having interviews set up. I'm down on my knees with thanks for everyone who's helped me so far. And the help continues. :)
I actually could've gone on this trip with my own expense; after all, the cost ain't THAT bad. I also had opportunities to have corporate sponsorships. However, I've taken guts to start the citizen-sponsorship program in order to see what happens with this. This is why I'm even more grateful for all the helps. I almost feel there indeed is a cause in all this.
To make the process as transparent as possible, I've set up a blog (unfortunately, all in Korean), which covers how sponsorship is going, how I'm going to travel, whom I'm meeting, and also a place where people can throw in their ideas.
To be honest, I'm scared and excited at the same time. I'm glad that I'll be able to meet up with a great number of people in the U.S., learn much from them, and deliver the same lessons to my blog readers.
Are you gonna be there? Maybe we can hook up as well!
By the way, my name is Taewoo Danny Kim. You can always just call me "Danny". ;)
p.s. I'm also working on a blog named "TechnoKimchi", which will cover tech in Asia. It's still in its dormant stage, but once it comes out, it won't necessarily be a cold and dry tech/biz analysis blog, but rather more goofy and fun blog about everything surrounding the Web in Asia--tech, mobile, biz, culture, gaming, teens, and even philosophy. Oh, maybe even politics. :)
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