Something I’ve been meaning to say…

Zac Echola talks #2 - Mobloging?

This just may be the future of breaking news.

Here’s a great thing about this whole Web 2.0 thing. You hardly have to program.I’m serious. This podcast used absolutely no programming, just free Web services. It’s unbundled media, too–meaning you can find the content where I want you to find the content (or where you want to find the content): On my site, in a widget, at twitter, iTunes, Facebook, wherever. It’s fed to all those places via RSS, and hell, you can sign up for that too if you’d like.I’m using a service called Gabcast, but there a bunch of other similar products out there. All you need is a phone. Magic makes the rest happen.

Stuff like this adds a whole ‘nother element to mobile journalism.

This is news as fast as you can say it. This is audio from an entire press conference or the sounds of a crowd at a rally. Sure the quality kinda sucks, but I guarantee you there isn’t a professional news organization within 400 miles of me that’s doing something like this.

And I’m just me. Just think about what kinds of awesome things an entire news organization could do with something like this.

Where’s the revenue come from? Who knows? Who cares. It didn’t cost me a dime. Try it out.