North Korea Blog
I've been working on a long, thoughtful post wrapping up some ideas from BloggerCon, but it has delayed me from flagging one of the most interesting things I saw while I was there. Rebecca MacKinnon, who recently left CNN after covering Asia for them for more than 10 years, is now studying at Harvard and has created a North Korea blog. It's called the North Korea Zone.

I thought I'd flag this for you now since the big N. Korea explosion looks to be leading the news.

I was lucky enough to get to chat with Rebecca many times during the weekend. (Here's a picture of us at dinner Friday night after I drove up with Paul Frankenstein and Rick Bruner.) Her blog is extremely interesting as a clearinghouse for any shred of information she can find coming out of this very secretive country. She visited the country five times as a reporter for CNN and she knows a lot about her subject. It's definitely worth your time to check this us and think about how her format could apply to other topics.

As an aside, there was an woman at BloggerCon who said she was trying to do something similar for Cuba, but I don't know her name or URL. Can any of my readers fill me in here?
- posted by Amy @ 4/22/2004 12:02:00 PM