A blogging start-up focused on news reporting will get its first real workout with its bid to provide real-time coverage of Thursday's parliamentary elections in Iraq.
The bloggers will be compensated for their time, Pajamas said. The group also plans to pay for equipment rentals or purchases and to provide translation to English.
In covering the Iraq elections, Pajamas is working with 2-year-old Baghdad-based blog "Iraq the Model."
Blogging in general and groups like Pajamas Media are
part of an emerging notion of how best to provide news coverage online, especially of events as they happen. The opportunities for bloggers and "citizen journalists" came into new light during Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast this summer.
The name Pajamas Media is a rebuke to critics who argue that bloggers are just hanging around the house in pajamas.
"Pajamas' coverage of events like this is an evolving model," co-founder Roger Simon said in a statement. "Input about what we're doing right, what we're doing wrong and what we're not doing--that is critical input, and we welcome it."
Blogging in Iraq came to the surface two years ago, when a pseudonymous Iraqi blogger, Salam Pax, provided live coverage of happenings in Baghdad at the start of the American military action there.
Why bother? Given the numerous factors including news media reports any election run by ahmad chalabi and associates in IRAQ, all results would have a very high probability of being rigged and pre ordained! Oh well, at least we'll get the results, faster than the official conspired/inspired tallies!
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Oh well, at least we'll get the results, faster than the official conspired/inspired tallies!