Cool.  I'm officially quitting my job and going into freelance photography.  Unfortunately, nothing interesting has happened in Dallas since 1963.

Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service

Hoping to turn the millions of people with digital cameras and camera phones into photojournalists, Yahoo and Reuters are introducing a new effort to showcase photographs and video of news events submitted by the public.

Starting tomorrow, the photos and videos submitted will be placed throughout Reuters.com and Yahoo News, the most popular news Web site in the United States, according to comScore MediaMetrix. Reuters said that it would also start to distribute some of the submissions next year to the thousands of print, online and broadcast media outlets that subscribe to its news service. Reuters said it hoped to develop a service devoted entirely to user-submitted photographs and video.

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There is already some concern that Muslim organizations will act to disrupt a speech tonight by Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who has written books and given speeches critical of radical islam.  More detail here from LGF.

What I haven't seen on the major blogs is a report from The Michigan Daily about attempts just last night to disrupt a speaker invited to discuss Iran by a pro-Israel campus group.

Campus police arrested three Ann Arbor residents accused of disturbing a lecture on Iran at the Michigan League on Thursday night.

The protesters have accused campus police of using excessive force in removing them, while event organizers say the protesters were violating free expression by preventing a lecturer from speaking.

The lecture was sponsored by the student organization American Movement for Israel. Raymond Tanter, a professor emeritus of political science who now teaches at Georgetown University, said he was interrupted repeatedly during his lecture.

The protesters were chanting things like "Hands off Iran" and "Tanter is a pig," Tanter said.