Mike Ward sends word from the University of Lancaster that a "Journalism Leaders Forum" Tuesday will be webcast live, and that one of the key participants, Tim Porter, will appear via weblink "from the States."
Dan Gillmor did a bit of telepresence for the University of Lancaster earlier this year from Hong Kong, as I recall. A few months ago, when I called on Dan to talk with the newsroom of the Savannah Morning News, we pulled it off with a couple of webcams, saving several thousand dollars and a lot of travel time.
Do we still need to travel? I hope we do, as I love to travel and always find that traveling abroad changes me in unexpected ways. But webcams and ubiquitous broadband are opening virtual doors that we only imagined not too long ago.