The inaugural convention of the association for the fast-growing, one-man media blogger-journalists, 'World Professional Blogger-Journalist Association (WPBA, wpba.aving.net)', will be held at the Youido Hanwha 63city Convention Centre in Seoul, Korea, on November 17, 2008. Representing the WEB 2.0 era, bloggers have reached a total of 80 million in numbers worldwide, and their roles and influence in the society continue to expand, calling for an establishment of an association that will protect and promote the rights and interests of professional bloggers. The objectives of WPBA are to establish blogger-journalists as a professional media, promote and protect their rights and interests, present new income-generating models, and to lay the groundwork for building a network of worldwide blogger-journalists. The convention's slogan is "Open, Share, & Contribute," symbolizing WPBA's goal to satisfy worldwide consumers' rights to be aware, to know, and to share information on business, product, and market, and to protect the environment by keeping a close watch over behaviors that destroy the environment and its natural order. Furthermore, WPBA intends to contribute to the development of a global culture and society through sharing of issues and cultural contents from around the world. Fifty world-famous blogger-journalists from 30 nations representing the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and emerging nations, will attend the convention to discuss the establishment of the ...

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