Thursday 10:26 am 4/5/07 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. At this very moment I’m sitting at the table just inside the door at The Breakfast Club on D’Arlbay Street in Soho, London. You’d know this already if, like MisterSnappy, you were… Continue Reading
Back in February I found myself wondering outloud when flickr would position itself as a photo agency. Today the NY Times reports (Thanks Joe!) that Yahoo and Reuters have joined forces to launch a new “citizen journalism” service tomorrow, with… Continue Reading
A few months ago, I posted here about the guy whose phone was stolen and, because he had Shozu configured to upload any cameraphone images in the background, his flickr stream ended up playing host to some photos taken by… Continue Reading
My interview with Howard Rheingold appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs last night. You can listen to it online. The programme is here and the interview, which lasts about 10 minutes, starts at 26:30. (While listening, do… Continue Reading
On Friday 22 September I’ll be interviewing Howard Rheingold for BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs. Howard has done so much over the past 10 – 15 years of his career that I need your help coming up with some… Continue Reading
pictures of the family of the person who stole my cell phone Originally uploaded by benvolut. I just came across this post from a guy who had his mobile stolen and suddenly found photos appearing, apparently taken by the person… Continue Reading
Last month I got a Nokia N70 with Co-Pilot software and a bluetooth GPS reciever. Of course, I needed to test it’s accuracy so I dragged the family off to Greenwich Observatory, home of the Greenwich Mean Line. That’s 0… Continue Reading
In the last couple of years of the 70’s, or perhaps early 80’s, my parents decided to get a station wagon (the British call this an Estate Car) to better haul our growing family and groceries around. The one thing… Continue Reading
CellJournalist is the latest of several sites hoping to cash in by making the link between "citizen journalists", or in this case citizen snappers, and mainstream media organisations. That doesn’t, of course, make it bad. Nor does the fact that… Continue Reading
Nokia reckons that 44% of people now use their mobile phone as their "main camera" and 73% use it instead of a wristwatch. The Nokia research into mobile habits questioned 5,500 people aged between 18 and 35 in 11 nations… Continue Reading