March 20, 2004
Moblogging Journalism
Neil Katz reports on moblogging for Columbia News Service via Smart Mobs.
"[...] In less than two years, the nation's largest moblog provider, Textamerica, has grown to over half a million users.
Most people use the service as a high-tech photo album, but increasingly the technology is finding more serious outlets.
Along with its use in various business enterprises, Newsplex, a "journalism laboratory" that researches the convergence of technology and news at the University of South Carolina, recently created a moblog to cover the primaries in that state.
And other journalists have taken the technology out of the laboratory and into the field, such as Louie Villalobos, 28, who has spent the last two years reporting on illegal activity along the border between Arizona and Mexico for the local Yuma newspaper."
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