Since mid 2004 Cecile Landman a Dutch freelance investigative journalist is in daily contact with Iraqi bloggers. Together with founder Jo van der Spek, Cecile forms the spill of Streamtime, an international support campaign for new media initiatives in Iraq.
Geert Lovink, a Dutch-Australian media theorist and critic interviewed Cecile Landman:
Geert Lovink: Cecile, could you describe us how an average blogging day of yours looks? Do you visit sites and follow links? How do you store and process all the information you find?
Cecile Landman: When I get up I start up the computer and the coffee machine simultaneously. Firstly I’d check some sites of the various bloggers that I am most curious about and familiar with. I am interested in their personal lives, but also how they write, how they play with different writing styles, and concepts of what ‘information’ constitutes according to them. I am looking for amazing stories and styles, not necessarily those that are most likely to reach mainstream media, but stories that can give insight how 'the Iraqi soul' is developing through all they're being confronted with, the immense and so destructive daily economical, political, military and every day violence. On a daily basis I’d visit at least a dozen Iraqi blogs. In addition, I check some specific Italian as well as international media sites, or specific news sites, varying from the big press-agencies to GNN (Guerilla News Network) to some more personal preferred ones, just for fun. I occasionally visit a Dutch site. There are also days that I visit no more than ten sites and that's it.
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