The Mojo
This is a response to the Stephen Quinn reading “Who found my mojo.”
Mobile phones are fast becoming the technology of choice for the mobile journalists, aka MoJo.
Once loaded with heavy and bulky equipment, Mojo’s can simply carry a mobile phone and perhaps a wireless keyboard to report and file a story on location.
It also might be less intimidating or conspicuous when travelling overseas – especially useful when reporting on war stories.
The Nokia N95 is one of these useful tools and Reuters is one of the media outlets taking advantage of this mobile phone technology.
Their toolkit consists of includes the Nokia N95/N82, a Bluetooth keyboard, a digital microphone and a phone-adapted tripod.
Robert Scoble, a Californian blogger, has been broadcasting live video from his mobile phone through the video streaming site Qik.
Scoble said that he “can get live video onto the Internet faster than [he] can make a phone call.”
However, there is one downfall to all this data streaming to the internet.
Other countries like the UK and US have mobile phone packages that allow for unlimited data packages, but unfortunately Australia does not have that luxury.
However, unless phone companies allow cheaper data packages for mobiles, journalists using internet technology on mobiles may not be the option for cost-cutting media corporations.
Here is a picture of the Reuters toolkit:
* This picture was taken from http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/reuters.jpg
