I'm curious about the extent to which digital consumer products can be used to create serious multimedia journalism, and how much of such stuff is in the possession of young journalists on this list. Here's what I'm talking about, though I'm certainly no expert. Web cams cell phones cameras cell phones that shoot video (in however limited a fashion) MP3 players with a digital audio recording, which could be used for interviews then, a higher level of this stuff that is still consumer gear -- digital video recorders, higher resolution digital cameras, full-on digital audio recorders, what else? If you own none of this stuff, that's interesting too, along with the reasons why (I realize they don't give this stuff away free; yet it's fairly cheap). While it's true that in many cases, a professional or mainstream publication won't require journalists to handle full multimedia production themselves, knowing multimedia and owning the equipment to do it could be helpful for people starting their own publications or using indy journalism as a way toward the mainstream. A sterling example is Hunter graduate Sara Stuteville's "Common Language Project: Positive Reporting across Borders" <http://www.commonlanguageproject.net/?page_id=7> Anyway, it would be interesting to know -- what do you have in your toolkit? Are you using it for journalism? Do you create any sort of multimedia work isfor fun, e.g., for YouTube? Peter -- Peter Parisi, Ph.D. Dept. of Film & Media Studies Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 212-772-4949 "People don't change. They just find out who they are." -- Ray Skean