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A rather odd mojo story, but one we can expect to see more of as mobile phone cameras improve: in Indonesia, police are seeking the people who distributed sex videos via mobile phone. Since earlier this month videos of a Jakarta pop singer known as Ariel and his girlfriends have been circulating around the country. [...]
Vericorder, the cool Canadian software company that invents great iPhone apps for mobile journalism, has a Facebook site. There you can watch videos of mojo work. Enjoy.
Is this an example of how journalists will apply for jobs in the future? PepsiCo wants to hire nine people to cover Internet Week in New York from June 1-8. They will use blogs, Twitter and video to chronicle events. Applicants will be asked to submit a short essay on why they should be chosen, links [...]
The number of Americans using a mobile phone to access news and information on the Internet more than doubled in the year to January 2009, comScore reports. Of the 63.2 million who looked for news and information on their mobile that month, 22.4 million (35 per cent) did so daily. This was more than double [...]
Have just found an excellent resource for people researching journalism. Do join. And please tell others. At this site I’m seeking people interested in the researching how journalists use the mobile phone for newsgathering (mojos).
Watch this video on YouTube about the Project Report announced earlier this month. A cool opportunity for mojos.
Verdens Gang, the innovative Norwegian site, offers a tool for news organisations to handle all incoming information from audiences in real time. Vidar Meisingseth is the project manager. His email is vidar@vg.no
David Cohn is an entrepreneurial mojo who has got money from the Knight News Challenge grant scheme to establish Spot.Us. The site allows individuals or groups to control news in their community by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists to write important or uncovered news stories. The business model is exciting. The need for new business models [...]
Have just discovered a fine site, CitizeNews, that aggregates the work of video journalists. The site says CitizeNews is “building a community of credentialed video journalists whose work is memorable for the quality of storytelling”.
YouTube has launched a citizen journalism site. Watch the introductory video here.