The evolution of mobile reporting
social media
Apple finally allows live streaming from iPhone
Dec 15th
A couple of days ago, Apple allowed Ustream to launch an app that streams live from your iPhone. The Ustream app also gives you the choice to link your account to Facebook and YouTube. I’m still testing the app but I think both Bambuser and Qik provides better video and audio. You still have to jailbreak your phone to download the apps for Bambuser and Qik on Cydia. You can also find an app from Flixwagon on Cydia, but I haven’t had a chance to test it since my phone goes black every time I try.
If you want higher quality from Ustream, they also have an app for recording in higher quality. It is not live stream, but will connect to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
Fun clip on social media from Onion
Dec 3rd
Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire
Thanks a lot to Dr. David Nordfors from Stanford University for showing me this during a meet up about innovation journalism. Have to digest what he told me, but I will post something about it later. But you can check out his blog on Innovation Journalism.
- I read what my friends read
Dec 1st
I met up with Loic Le Meur today, founder of both Seesmic and LeWeb. He talked about the new Seesmic Desktop for Windows and the gathering in Paris next week. Loic is passionate about the social web. As journalists we could probably learn a lot about what people expect from us today and in the future.
Loic Le Meur doesn’t read news on paper. He uses Kindel to read traditional news. For the most part thou, he gets his news from links on Twitter and Facebook.
- I read what my friends read. That’s the most interesting for me. We can exchange interesting links and stories. I don’t think an editor is fit to understand what I want to read. But I do follow some smart journalists. I think it’s much more important that journalists can tell me what they are doing on Twitter or Facebook. I rather be following a smart journalist, than a big news outlet. Journalists have to adapt their work to the new ways communicating, says Le Meur.
He could also tell us that within two weeks, Seesmic will release an Twitter app for iPhone, with the possibility to read list.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to meet us Loic 
Studying social media in San Francisco
Nov 27th
I’m organizing a trip with Norwegian journalist, editors and developers to San Francisco. Next week we are visiting excellent companies like Wikimedia, YouTube, Qik and Seesmic. The head of Bambuser will even join us on Skype from Sweden. A lot of interesting people will visit us to talk about trends and development in social media and journalism. I will update my blog all week. If you are a Norwegian reader, check out the new blog where all the participants will produce content – stup.mojoevolution.com . The entire group uses the hashtag #stupsf during the next week on Twitter. Feel free to give us some input.
Social media aids the protesters in Iran
Jun 17th
If you have checked out Twitter, YouTube or other social media sites today – you will discover that there is a lot of activity about Iran. For Twitter, simply search for the hastag #IranElection and you will be able to follow all sorts of opinions and information. The government has tried to stop media coverage of the protests, but that only seems to agitate the people questioning the results from the election.
It’s not surprising that a lot of people makes tweets. But a lot of video streams are also put out on the web. What sort of “aid” the producers have had, I’m not sure about. Neither who actually produces the videos, but you can watch a sample from LiveStream (former Mogulus) on Persianq. It’s a bit on and off with live streams and recorded streams. The quality from a lot of the streams seems to be from mobile phones. The new democrotatizers.
The first Twitter correspondent
Mar 11th
It had to happen. Sky News has “hired” Ruth Barnett as a new correspondent, reporting stories from Twitter.
Read more about it at JP Digital Digest.
Pushing viral video
Mar 4th
In the third part of my social media tutorial, viral spreading of video is the name of the game. We’ll start by looking at how live mobile streaming from Qik can spread like a viral infection all through the net.
Organizing web feeds
Feb 23rd
RSS icons
So, we have played with the syntax of XML and RSS. It’s now time to put what we’ve learned into practise. In this post I’ll focus on how you can mange to follow a large number of blogs and other web sites, without spending your entire day on the net. This is useful both if you’re working as a journalist, covering an area or a special topic, or you just want to stay informed.
XML – the Esperanto of the web
Feb 10th
XML – the Extensible Markup Language is something you should know a little about if you plan to truly understand the social web. RSS and ATOM are dialects of XML. If you understand XML, you understand them both. Here at Mojo Evolution I’ll try to walk you through the basics of the social web. I’ll start by talking about XML, since this technology is the core of social media when it comes to syndication.
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