Live blogging--ITERA/ACUTA Conference in Atlanta.
ITERA is International Telecommunications Education and Research Association,
holding a joint conference with ACUTA,
now known as the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education.
Miles O'Brien is keynote speaker. He is demonstrating via a multimedia presentation on stage.
He has brought in via BGAN, a blogging correspondent from the Himalayan mountains in Nepal
Here's a definition of BGAN:
Broadband Global Area Network or BGAN for short, is a global Satellite Internet Network with telephony using portable terminals.
The blogger correspondent Keith Cowing runs a site called “NASA Watch”
Keith Cowing is going to Mt. Everest to cover this event--former astronaut Scott Parazynski 's expedition climb of the mountain.
Here is the site for the climb: http://onorbit.com/everest
It's an example of the new media kind of journalism,
made possible by converged information and communication technologies.
Information is on the move.