GlobalMojo

A start-up site that lets citizens become mojos called 12seconds is currently in private alpha (that’s geek-speak for needs more work). You need to apply to try it out. The software allows you to get online with a webcam or a cellphone. Read more about it here.

Robert Scoble is one of America’s most prolific mojos. Here is his latest series of articles from Washington, DC.

The excellent VJ Ruud Elmendorp has set up a Facebook group called videojournalist. It’s very much worth joining.

Steve Garfield offers a handy collection of links about video-blogging here. I found this one the most useful.

Have been looking at the web site of Fromdistance, an Estonian mobile technology company based in Tallinn and founded in 2004. Fromdistance’s main customers are media companies, including the largest daily in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat. The company’s professional reporting software, Reporter, lets journalists record and send media files with one click to a publisher’s mobile reporter […]

Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC’s news website, writes about the corporation’s new integrated and multimedia newsroom. It was still under construction when I visited in late May.

Slightly off subject. Editor & Publisher has a feature this week that suggests mobile is the “biggest growth opportunity” for newspapers. Read the full article here. Travelling at the moment and for next few days, to China and Singapore via Germany. Apologies that updates are less frequent than usual.

Channel 4 News in London plans to use the liveblogging service CoverItLive to report on today’s House of Commons debate on terrorism. Discussion will focus on a proposed 42-day pre-charge detention period for terrorism suspects.

YouTube seems to be re-cycling press releases. An example of a green policy, perhaps? On May 28 I noted in this blog that YouTube had announced a citizen reporter channel. Earlier this week You Tube issued another press release saying the same thing. Either way, it’s nice to see this option for citizen reporters.

MobileCrunch reports it will be possible to use Windows mobiles with Qik to stream video. Until now, you could only use Nokia N series phones (with the Symbian operating system) with Qik.