Jeff Jarvis has your one-stop shop for Iraqi election coverage: Iraqi bloggers, Iraqi youth, and non-Iraqis. He gives brief descriptions of each and a snippet of a post for a few. (Lest Eric Alterman get his panties in a bunch, several of the listed Iraqi bloggers are against the occupation.) Technology entrepreneur (and Dallas Mavs courtside yeller) Mark Cuban, who owns the high-definition network HDNet, has sent his "TV studio in a box" to Iraq to cover the elections full-time. Awesome:
Since it’s my network, and this is something I think is amazing and compelling, we are
going to broadcast the feed continuously on HDNet during daylight and twilight hours in Baghdad. No talking heads. No
interruptions for commentary. Just the sights and sounds of Baghdad, uninterrupted and unedited.
It’s harder to spin when you don’t have the power to summarize and selectively edit.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.