The BBC’s Darren Waters has written about the pros and cons of using a mobile phone as a reporting tool on the dot.life blog. He has been using a Nokia N95 during a reporting trip to California to test the limits of what is possible with these kind of devices. Overall, as I too have found, the video quality of the N95 is impressive, especially in a well-lit environment. The

Clark Boyd is technology correspondent for The World, a coproduction of the BBC and WGBH, and funded by Public Radio International. I caught up with him in Boston to reflect back on his three years of podcasting and look ahead to the future of radio. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.478889&w=425&h=350&fv=] Technorati Tags: BBC, WGBH, podcasting, technology

The BBC’s recent experiment with mobile journalism is a good example of its multimedia approach to news in action. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones headed out to the mobile phone industry’s annual shindig in Barcelona to cover the event for TV, radio and online. Given that cellphones were the focus, it proved a suitable event to try out using mobiles as newsgathering tools. The phone was a Nokia N95 which Reuters

Lists are always popular so the Online Journalism Review has put together the top nine gifts for online journalists. Among the suggestions are a Belkin Tunetalk Stereo to record interviews on your iPod, a GPS unit from TomTom and, my favourite, a Vespa LX150 scooter. The number one gift, says OJR, the Apple iPhone. No doubt, the iPhone is an object of desire, but I am not sure how useful

Say goodbye to the idea of carrying around a laptop and a dozen other gadgets to be able to file from the field. Reuters, in partnership with Nokia, have been trying out a mobile journalism toolkit that fits into a small backpack. With a Nokia N95, bluetooth keyboard, an external microphone, basic tripod and solar-powered charger, reporters will be able to send stories back from anywhere where there is a