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2003: Best SMS and Camera phone news coverage
This is the seventh post for Textually 2003 - The Year in Review, a series of entries rounding up the most interesting mobile news (best and worst) reported this year. Best SMS and Camera phone news coverage This is textually's selection of the best online news reporting this year - and those that let us down - covering text messaging and camera phones: The BBC First prize goes to the BBC, where nearly every day they publish an original story related to cell phones and because they continue to innovate with interactive features, and are the first to have asked for picture phone contributions from their readers, which they publish online. And in another first, brought to our attention only yesterday by E-Media Tidbits, the BBC has been the first to broadcast a news story where a correspondent reported live via a photo phone, for a story on ships. The following "best selection" of blogs and websites are no particular order, as each and everyone of them shed a different and original light on the news. E-Media Tidbits From Poynteronline, Steve Outing's thoughtful insight and perception draws our attention to how cameraphones are likely to influence news organizations in major ways. With citizens becoming camera phone reporters and reporters armed with cameraphones becoming photojournalists. Techdirt Wireless Mike Masnick has an eye for the good cell phone stories and sees right through any hype. He goes for the quick and his postings are always opinionated. Which is excactly how a blog should be. Moco News Raft Ali blog focuses on mobile content deals. If you need to know who's doing what where with who, this is the best place. TheFeature.com TheFeature.com has so many knowledgeable contributors, Eric Lin, Justin Hall, Carlo Longino and Howard Rheingold, just to name a few, that the quality of what is published here, with a perspective on cell phone technology from all over the world, is the finest and a cut (way)above most newspaper's coverage of wireless technology. 160characters.org Mike Grenville for 160characters.org publishes some of the best stories first hand on text messaging, mostly in the UK. Cameraphone Report Alan Reiter's Cameraphone Report is recognized and rightly so, as the best reporting online on Camera phones. MobileWack This blog opened very recently and merits a daily visit. A sort of Gizmodo of mobile aps. Just great. Smart Mobs Smart Mobs has many wonderful contributors (I publish on Smart Mobs too but I don't mean me - you will find some of the same entries as on my blogs) but related to text messaging and camera phones, these are the Smart Mobbers to watch out for: Gerrit, Thomas, Alberto, and of course Howard Rheingold. They let us down: Unwired Wired Unwired is disapointing not because of the quality of the wireless reporting, but because the articles are too few and far between. Japan Media Review Every post in the Japan Media Review is fascinating to anyone not living in Japan, giving insight on how cell phones are used and what's ahead. But the entries like Unwired, are too few and far between. Keitai Log In it's description, it's quite clear that Keitai Log is "an occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones -- keitai -- in Japanese society". We know you have to study, but we would really like to see more entries! SMS: Business Gets the Message SMS: Business Gets the Message published by, Xiam, a company which develops mobile application software, used to be the best place to go for original SMS stories. But in the last few months, they have really lost their cutting edge. |
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