I just saw this OSI Open Space – The Media: Expression and Freedom highlighted in the Soul Beat newsletter and it made me think of the Citizen Journalism Project.

The World Bank's BuzzMonitor may be more Buzz than we need, but let's think about a similar service for the CJ Portal down the line.

A recent thoughtleader comment, Paddling without a compass, caught my eye this week. Anne Taylor, of Rhodes University's New Media Lab, writes about the ethics of blogging, and raises some of the questions we discussed at the Training of Trainers workshop in Johannesburg a few weeks back. Web 2.0 tools such as blogging open up new territory in the relationship between media houses and news consumers, but, Taylor cautions, it doesn’t mean old concepts like ethics and professionalism fall away.

An article from HANA piqued my interest. Its about a new range of handsets Nokia is planning to introduce, particularly to Africa and the Middle East. What do others know about these, if anything? I see they are intended primarily for a "business" audience.