Giving the power of story telling to the people is scary frankly. I read the New York Times and Wall Street Journal because I know that the people behind those keyboards are educated professionals. This isn’t to say I don’t read other sources, blogs have proven critical in the way I consume information. With more and more people participating in story telling however, I think lies or misinformation will be found out faster than any "letter to the editor" can.
But a new mobile experiment being carried out by BBC Innovation,
Nokia, new media firm Ymogen and the University of Brighton does sound
interesting.Geo-stories is a project looking at how photos, video clips and text
can be combined with location and time information to create
interesting narratives. 18 students from the university have been
kitted out with Nokia phones and GPS accessories to see what kind of
content they can put together – for example, examining how photos and
video taken at a sporting event can be mapped in time and space
automatically, to provide a more rounded report on the match.The future of citizen reporting, or just an excuse for a bunch of
skinflint students to blag into Stamford Bridge on a Saturday? We’ll
have to wait and see…Source: Pocket Picks