As mentioned earlier this week, the live webcast from “Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field” (a symposium on computation + journalism) begins at 1 p.m. ET.

Speakers and panelists include:

• Krishna Bharat – Principal Scientist at Google and creator of Google News
• Ian Bogost – videogame designer, critic, and researcher, Assistant Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games
• David Cohn – Beatblogging.org and NewAssignment.net
  Ezra Cooperstein – Director of Development and Production for the Viewer-Created Content group at Current TV
• Leah Culver – Founder of Pownce, a San Francisco-based micro-blogging service
• John Geraci – Co-Creator of outside.in
• Mark Hansen – Co-PI of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, creator of sensorbase.org (and one of the guys who created the cool art installation in the NYTimes Tower)
• Alexander Hauptman – Senior Systems Scientist working on the Informedia: News-on-Demand project at Carnegie Mellon University
• Elizabeth Spiers – media columnist for Fast Company magazine, founding editor of Gawker.com

Check out the full list of speakers, then be sure to watch the webcast. QuickTime 7 or later required.