GlobalMojo

Have been experimenting (and I mean experimenting so please be kind) with a new web-based software called Flowgram. It’s relatively easy to use and I like the way it allows me to incorporate lots of multi-media elements. You will need the latest version of Flash to watch the flowgrams. Simply click on the play button […]

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

Reuters is a smart organisation. They understand the links between technology and audiences and journalism. At the Democratic convention in Denver they have given video cameras and phones to 40 delegates. Read about them here. And here.

The Washington Post plans to use mojos to cover the Republican and Democratic conventions. A news release describes how reporters from WashingtonPost.com and Newsweek.com will use a “cutting-edge cell phone application from Comet Technologies” to stream video from their cell phones for a live webcast. “Reporters will stream convention developments and questions from people directly […]

Spent much of today experimenting with a Nokia N95 8Gb smartphone Nokia gave me for researching mojos. A black swan landed on our dam a few days ago. Here is some footage (remember it’s experimental) of the dam at the front of our property in Winchelsea.

Elle Moxley, a journalism student at the University of Missouri, has written a fascinating article about mobile phone use in China. “… where I go to school [in the US], you’re more likely to see students checking their email on their laptops than their phones. But here at Renmin, where there’s a campus-wide wireless network, […]

Here is a video of Stig Nordqvist, Ifra’s director of digital media research, talking about mobile phones at Ifra’s digital trend day in Amsterdam.

Reporters at the Express and Star, a UK regional daily, are using mobile phones to stream live video of football games to the paper’s website. They are using Nokia phones and Qik software.

Have spent the past week at the Asian Publishing Convention in Singapore, where I gave 4 presentations. It’s frustrating how many hotels around the world try to make money selling Internet connections. My Singapore hotel charged $S15 ($US10.60)  for 5 hours. The Net is like a utility such as sewerage or electricity. So charging for […]

Reuters is seeking citizen reporters for a mojo project at this year’s Democratic and Republican conventions. It will supply attendees with video cameras and help them learn to shoot footage and upload it to Reuters’ sites. “We hope to capture an unseen side of the conventions, from those most involved — delegates, donors, convention volunteers and others,” Adam Pasick […]