MTV launches mobile blogging for fans

Announced last week, MTV : starzine is now online.

This Lifeblog project is billed as Europe's first magazine to be created entirely by its readers. MTV viewers are invited to contribute to the online magazine by sending in their mobile phone photographs with accompanying text.

Readers and writers can then vote for their favorite page. Top of the pile will get cover feature status.

[Via netimperative]

Nokia-backed MTV starzine - will be created entirely by its readers

Nokia-backed MTV: starzine is billed as as Europe's first magazine to be created entirely by its readers, as well as MTV's first production of a magazine.

Building on Nokia's Lifeblog application, MTV viewers will be invited to contribute to the online magazine by sending in their mobile phone photographs with accompanying copy.

Running from now until the autumn, the promotion will have the strapline 'Snap, send, shine - fame is just a click away'.

[via Brand Republic]

Sony Ericsson's t-six-ten online camera phone magazine

I learned of this magazine through Alan Reiter's Camera Phone Report who read about it himself on Tom Hume's weblog.

Sony Ericsson's t-six-ten is a monthly magazine showcasing the best in mobile photography captured by members of the public around the world.

Anyone can become a t-six-ten 'image scout'. All you need is a mobile phone (any brand) with an integrated or attachable camera and a little imagination.

Each month they set a photographic challenge and ask you to seek out the perfect shot. And because it's mobile photography inspiration can come anywhere: On the bus, in a queue, first thing, last thing, taking a side street or in the canned foods aisle.

But here's the thing: you can only submit one shot per challenge, so you'll need to make sure it's something special.

If you're stuck for inspiration check out our Featured Artists: a collection of celebrities from around the world commissioned to go and get creative with a new Sony Ericsson T610/T616.

Their worldwide panel of judges convene online once a month to select the winner and nine runners up. The judging criteria are simple: composition, creativity and relevance to the set challenge. But of course, it might just be a shot that makes us go 'WOW'.

Cameraphonereport.com

Camera phone cogniscento Alan Reiter - who's Wireless Data Web Log I read daily - has just launched a new blog entitled Camera Phone Report which will cover everything useful about the camera phone environment.  This will include information about new handsets, software (server-and handset-based), business models, moblogs, privacy concerns, applications for consumers and businesses -- and anything else that catches his fancy.

Alan Reiter is a wireless data consultant. He does consulting work on camera phones, has created public and corporate tutorials about camera phones and wants to help to build this business around the world.

Photoblog aggregator

Anyone interested in photoblogs and their social impact should check out BlueHereNow daily. They report on picturephoning news and are agreggating images from photoblogs across the world. It's where you'll see political news, celebrities, international news, sports and other major events wirelessly reported for the first time.

"As more people are able to capture photos and send text, images and sounds through the air it is inevitable that all major cultural events will be captured by hundreds if not thousands of accidental bystanders, citizen reporters."