A Geek Dinner in New Orleans

We'll be dropping by a Geek Dinner in New Orleans. Unfortunately I won't be there in person enjoying jambalaya, collard greens and cornbread (wow that made me hungry) Instead we'll be doing what we call a "simul-rec" i.e. we talk via phone but record both sides of the conversation as mp3's cutting them together later. It's a year on from Katrina and the city still has many problems. I'll be asking George from Humid City and a number of his fellow geeks what citizen journalists can do to help.

But it occurs to me we should be virtually attending events like this in other places. Perhaps we should make a "blog city roundup" a regular feature. If you belong to a bloggers group based in a particular village, town or city and would like to talk about life in your city drop us a note or leave a comment.

UPDATE: Kalypso, one of the attendees at the dinner made this film at Mardi Gras. It's a great piece of citizen journalism; my attempts at film usually have people going "oh that's why you work in radio" and I'm three times Kalypso's age.

UPDATEII George sent us this link to his photos of the Geek Dinner

UPDATE III Ran short of time to cut together the two sides of the interview this week so will run next Monday

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