I like:

Google Video & Google Talk

TCTV Public Access Studio

del.icio.us (to save bookmarks where all can see and share)

Using an IM client in a wifi area is a great way to communicate (especially when covering events), and avoids cell costs associated with voice or data services

I've read histories of the rise of Protestantism which essentially argue that what saved Martin Luther from the flames, and thus obscurity, was not his message or his dissent from established doctrine - it was the printing press. For the first time in Europe, a person's speeches and arguments could be articulated without mediation and without his head being attached to his own shoulders, or his body being present in the reader's own town. In fact, so powerful was this technology that we can still read him today, long after his death.

So I'm enthusiastic about technology, don't take this the wrong way.

Flikr will probably work for me, but the video out on my camera is broken. The digital out, anyway. And I have not the time or the fast computers to do video download and compression. So your route forward is, for now, for me, an offer of dependence on someone else's tools. I have not yet become TCTV certified, though I plan to be - but I have not yet taken the time. I do offer the footage freely (I have to supervise and retake custody of the tapes, sorry!) but so far, all I have at the Island is a simple, and apparently substandard, VHS/monitor deck which needs some TLC. I'll probably have to replace a timing element or belt in it, since it seems to skip and drag occasionally. But so far, my rough cut worked well enough for Anarchist Movie Night (Mondays at 9PM at Media Island International).

So consider this a call for someone's fast computer and video skillz to visit the Island soon, and set up a portal for public journalism so that us proles can have at it, as well as the booshies. Capish?

I'd say another tool is the non-high tech tool.  The tool of personal contact.  Devoid of pencils or notepads, computers or recording devices.  I'm talking about the face to face, the random conversation with a stranger.  We are all journalists, to be sure, but what is it that we are reporting on?  In the end we are our stories, in the end we are the stories of others.  In Australia, in the aboroginie world, the story is everything.  There is a taboo there that you can only tell your own stories, and forbidden from telling the stories of others.  I like that concept.  So I like the opportunities for others to tell me their stories, and i promise to not use them as my own.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."