So a little secret something is in the works for November 15th, which just happens to be municipal election day, as a result of your generous votes, dear reader, on the Vancouver Election Blog Awards. We'll announce that part later, lets just say Women will have their voices heard. So today I got a chance to sit down with Mark Latham of VoterMedia.org, and came to understand that this contest is part of a much larger plan for democratically funded new media. To me, this is bolder than anything that Adbusters has come up with in the last 5 years. His idea is a socially funded model that might just permanently alter the information landscape. Imagine if every blogger could focus on content rather than whoring themselves out to advertisers. Its like a living wage for freelance journalists. We're sick of the Rupert Murdochs, Conrad Blacks, and Izzy Aspers of the world and we'd much rather get our news from a local blogger who isn't in the pocket of big corporations.

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