Mojo on the Go Go
Written on November 17, 2008 – 4:15 pm | by ozjourno
Mobile phone journalist = mojo (not to be confused with Austin Powers).
Frank Barth-Nilsen from NRK trains mojos, changing the way story telling is done & Reuters Mobile Journalism considers the mojo as a future form of journalism. Hate to tell them, it’s already here! Their toolkit is below:
Being a mojo has its advantages – you can run away faster from bodyguards & there is no heavy camera equipment to slow you down.
“It’s just a phone man!”
Sometimes you can even beat the ‘big guns’ to the punch, like Steve Garfield :
Stories are on the web quicker than you can SMS with live streaming from a mobile using Qik.
In Europe FromDistance is creating waves, specialising in mobile journalism products and services.
In Australia, mojo’s are now being trained up. We are a bit limited, as the availability of unlimited data packages is way too expensive or non-existent with mobile carriers.
I have an X-series Nokia N95 and am with ‘3′, with 200MB a month allowance for $8 on top of my plan. I’m using it more each day; only the other day in the supermarket I did a search on food additives. Call me paranoid.
Smartphones are the most popular for the internet, especially the iPhone. It only has 2% of the smartphone market, yet it is starting to outperform Nokia for internet usage.
Facebook is now on mobile internet. Yes, I have been guilty of checking it, in the dark with the phone on silent (the clicking echoes in the dark), commenting and feeling like a snoop.
Which reminds me … I wonder if I have any comments on this?
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