GlobalMojo

This Mashable article offers a useful article that describes five useful tools for mobile phone reporting.

An American company, OWLE, have released a device called a bubo that fits to an iPhone to improve the quality of the video. Here is a video about the product. I like the handles, which make it easier to hold the iPhone when shooting video.

Apologies for the long delay in posting. Have finally finished two books. The book of most interest to readers of this blog will be the one about mobile journalism. A free pdf of Mojo: Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region can be found here.

A new feature that Twitter says might be available in the next few weeks called “geolocation” should help reporters. The feature uses a mobile phone’s global positioning system (GPS) to allow Twitter users to include a precise location with each tweet. Sounds ideal if you are looking for tweets from a specific place. Ryan Sarver, director of the Twitter platform, leads a “fairly small team” of programmers. They are close to completing the geolocation project, he told The New York Times. “We are about delivering the right information to the right people.”

Joy: New iPhone shoots video. But limited range of video streaming software via iTunes. Qik is available and works well. Testing camera here. This is a useful book.

Just found this YouTube video about how to be a mojo. It runs for 2 minutes. It is basic, but useful. Also helpful is this video (choose the one on the right of the screen) about how to post video to YouTube from a mobile.

Paul Bradshaw in Birmingham has assembled a great collection of Bambuser videos on mobile journalism. Find them here. This is a wonderful innovation.

I have been writing a book about mobile journalism, the subject of this blog, for several months. Apologies for not updating this blog. My priority was the book manuscript. Good news: the manuscript is finally with the publisher, so expect fresh updates from today.

Have found this excellent site about mobile journalism, run by Jim Robinson, a mojo in South Florida. Apologies for infrequent updates to the blog. Have a deadline of September 30 for my book about mobile journalism, Mojo: Mobile journalism in the Asian region. All my energies are going into the manuscript.

Fernando Firmino da Silva, a professor at the Department of Social Communication at the State University of Paraíba, Brazil, has written a learned article about “how mobile devices interface with journalism”. It is somewhat turgid but worth reading.