I'm at the Knight News Challenge today on the campus of MIT. It's a conference and awards event for the winners of the Knight News Challenge Grant. DataDyne is a part of this, because we won last year for the DatAgro project in Chile, powered by our MIP technology. But I just want to put in a general plug for the Knight Foundation, and the News Challenge. The grants really provide a great opportunity for anyone with an idea related to the future of news, and especially the future of news and technology. The application process is not too hard, and they will be accepting new applications in September.

If you have some idea for how new technologies can benefit the news --really, can benefit the whole process by which the public learns about what's going on around them -- I encourage you to check it out: http://www.newschallenge.org/