GlobalMojo

The floods in Pakistan have provoked a mojo-style citizen reporting site called SeenReport. Here is a YouTube video about it, and here is a comprehensive article in PBS’s Mediashift blog.

This site called MaYoMo, for map your moments, offers a novel way to do social media and citizen journalism. Might be worth investigating.

Have just found this YouTube video about how to be a mojo. It is simplistic, but provides the basics on how to get video to YouTube.

This Toolkit for citizen journalists, available free as a pdf, and with videos on the web site, will be useful to some mojos. 

Further evidence of the potential of the mobile phone and digital tools like Twitter for reporting in Iran, in this report from the UK. See my earlier piece on this phenomenon.

It’s a cliche, but the protests in Iran surely demonstrate further the power of the mobile phone in the hands of so-called amateurs. Especially given the fact almost all Western reporters have left Tehran. Big-name media such as CNN have eagerly displayed “amateur” photographs. 

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

The UK Press Gazette reports the BBC plans to deliver local online video news in its 60 regional centres, in some cases using audience-generated content. Managers will submit the proposal to the BBC Trust for approval next month. The plan, which will cost 68 million pounds, would mean 150 new camera teams in the field over the next [...]

Current TV offers news with a difference. Viewers get to choose the running order. Go to the news site and nominate the stories you think should be included in the next bulletin. Meanwhile, a clock ticks away the minutes and seconds before the next bulletin.