(Voting ends midnight, Friday Nov. 30)
We'll win $10,000
The New INDIVIDUALIST magazine has entered an online entrepreneurship contest, submitting our plan to create live, interactive video news events for our forthcoming TNI website. The new website will launch at the beginning of 2008, debuting at the CPAC conference. The contest money will help offset our costs for a cutting-edge "TNI TV" feature. This dazzling technology will present live, interactive shows that will feature our writers, editors, and special guests -including nervous politicians. Online audience members also will get to participate by asking questions of the guests. (Which is why the politicians will be nervous.) In a nostalgic nod to 1950's television, our advertisers will appear live to share their wares. Real-time polling will be conducted during the shows, too. No more throwing a shoe at the television because they're asking softball questions again.
YOU will be the interviewer on this people-powered webcast, and you'll reach millions with your questions.
1. Just go to www.ideablob.com
2. Go to the top of the page and Click "register." Follow the registration instructions.
3. Return to the home page and vote by clicking on the green vote box icon next to the phrase "Interactive web-based news events.
The New INDIVIDUALIST is dedicated to producing intelligent, objective reporting and analysis of current events.
Editor-in-chief: Robert Bidinotto. Robert started making an impact early in life, when his investigative reporting on the Willie Horton case sank Dukakis' presidential campaign. ("Getting Away with Murder," by Robert James Bidinotto, Reader's Digest, July 1988.) Since then he's written many brilliant landmark articles on crime, culture, politics and philosphy -and two books, with a third to be published next year.
Managing Editor: Sherrie Gossett. Sherrie's best-known 'scoop' was her revelation that The Boston Globe had published phony images of GI's raping Iraqi women -photos from a porn site, that had been posted earlier on "The Committee for the Defense of Saddam Hussein" site in Tunisia. That scoop landed her interviews, including on Inside Edition, and was cited in many newspapers. She also revealed specifics of terrorist activity in Bosnia, a full month before German intelligence did.
TNI fan Capt. Russ Corwin, pre-mission, before bombing an "al-Qaeda in Iraq" site.
Missile with a message.
Magazine with a message.