If you look to your right you will see a small bug from the website pledgie.com. The purpose of this is to allow my readers to help me fund the story I want to complete in Russia and Central Asia. The Pledgie website allows you to set-up a cause and solicit funds. The advantage over just using a PayPal donation is that the Pledgie causes are searchable on the internet and will hopefully reach a larger audience. (more…)
- my
May 27, 2009
May 25, 2009
New Idea for Story Funding
It has been a while since I have posted anything to the blog. Its original purpose was to send updates from my 2007 trip to Russia and it has not gotten used much since then. In fact I accidentally deleted all the wordpress files while I was updating the main waterphoto site (oops). Luckily the database was still intact so the stories were left untouched. I plan to update this more frequently—all good bloggers pledge to do when they neglect their blogs. But that is not why Im writing today.
(more…)
Comments Off
September 17, 2007
Busy Few Days
Well the last few days since I last wrote have been busy. I have shot three more events and taken a trip into the country.
On Friday I covered two events that were part of a larger protest being made by gay rights activists. The first part of the event was a picket at the Ministry of Health building to protest the ministry’s rule that gay men can not donate blood. It’s a familiar argument to one gay rights groups are making in the US. (more…)
September 13, 2007
Goin’ International
Last night I got my first opportunity to cover a news event in a foriegn city. When Katia, one of the people helping me with interpretation, called the Youth Yabloko group to see if they were having any upcoming meetings they told her that there was a meeting on Wednesday night. I guess something got lost in the translation becuase I was expecting a meeting and what I got was a “radical action”.
(more…)