Moblogging and journalism

Howard Rheingold writes interesting piece about moblog and journalism in the future. How this new tools and technology can change journalism. He points out that no matter how good hardware and software we have ,it will be critical applying old fashioned standards to earn people's trust.
He predicted in his book " Smart Mobs -The next social revolution" that

that advances in technology would soon give everyone the tools they need to publish independent reports of news events as they are happening directly to the Web and other platforms.

But he says that people should keep in mind that amateur journalist and would-be journalist need keep this close to attention:

Journalism, if it is to deserve the name, is not about the quality of the camera, but about the journalist's intuition, integrity, courage, inquisitiveness, analytic and expressive capabilities, and above all, the trust the journalist has earned among readers. Good journalists discern compelling stories in events, cultivate and mobilize networks of sources, double check and triple check facts, develop reputations that can only be won by getting the story right week after week, year after year

Imagine that Ernesto Hemingway, famouse writer and adventurist had at their hands some of this tool availaible today. Camera-phone , laptop, PDA, weblog, moblog , email. Wow ! It would be interesting to see what would be result of his personal blogging production. :-)) Ernesto was journalist as well. And he was hero. Old fashioned hero. Today we do not have many of those. Maybe one day when there will be millions with tools and technology that will enable distributed news and documentary production. Then we will have first heroes. O , what about Salam Pax, iraqi blogger ? Isn't he acctually first of that sort ? I think we in Croatia have great potential for moblogging cause we treat our mobile phones like fetish. ( good penetration of mobile phones into everyday life ) :-))

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