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A Chinese company, Zenithink, has released an iPad clone. Not really mojo related, but imagine millions of iPads around Asia. It runs on Google’s Android operating system. Meanwhile, Microsoft has dropped plans for its electronic reader, the Courier.

Here is a useful blog post about the joys and perils of being a freelance journalist. Some innovative freelancers use mojo tools. The presentation is with Prezi, a new tool for presenting. Looks cool.

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.

Here are two case studies from Apple about how media houses are using the iPhone to distribute news and information. Gannett is one of the biggest publishers in the United States and Axel Springer is Germany’s largest newspaper publisher.

Steven Dong, an adviser to the State Council, China’s Cabinet, said the Internet has become the “most powerful” medium in every government official’s daily life, AFP reported.

Have just found this excellent post from an Australian mojo based in Germany. His name is Guy Degen. This post provides really useful information on software and hardware for multi-media journalists. The tip came from Dave Earley, a Brisbane-based journalist, via Twitter.

Apologies for not writing: have been ill with a lung infection. An excellent range of mobile journalism resources is available here. My colleague and friend Xu Xiaoge, who maintains the site, said that an iPhone 3GS loaded with TwitVid, TwitPic and TwitMic allows reporters and the public to function as mobile journalists anytime and anywhere. With Voice Memos and iProRecorder, which [...]

Fauziah Ismail, chief news editor of the New Straits Times in Malaysia, tells me her web site’s reporters use the Nokia N95 and N96 for mojo work. ”My reporters have begun to use these new technologies. They think it’s fun,” she told me by email. The reporters started mojo work after I ran a training course for the Malaysian Press Institute in [...]

Gave a presentation today about mojo in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, to Ifra’s Newsroom Summit Asia. Here is the conference program.

A profile of a likely freelance journalist of the future. Thanks to the BBC’s Paul Brannan for the link. Note that Jason Motlagh, the freelancer, has multi-media skills. Mojo has to be among those skills.