I just read about MTV's “Choose or Lose” voting initiative:
"MTV will be launching a “Street Team” comprised of 51 young, amateur journalists from each state and Washington D.C. to cover the 2008 election, emphasizing issues important to younger demographics.
Members of the Street Team will begin appearing in January on a new mobile site as well as the existing MTV Mobile, ThinkMTV (a social network), and other websites as well. You’ll note that MTV is even taking advantage of its revamped efforts to reach the youth through its mobile initiatives as well.
The content will be a conglomerate of blog entries, videos, photos, podcasts, and animation. [...] the members have also been equipped with laptops, video cameras, mobile phones, and Adobe software."
[via Mashable]
For us at Flixwagon this is a dream come true... When we started thinking of who will benefit from Flixwagon's ability to broadcast live from the mobile (or our 'end users'), one of the natural candidates was the Citizen Journalism domain. Web 2.0 has already turned most of us into reporters, journalists and opinion leaders armed with blogs who have a certain amount of readership and mobile cams at hand. Let me add the following to the current state: the ability to publish to your favorite social websites and leverage their viral nature + the immediacy of a live broadcast from the mobile and we get a whole new definition for "citizen journalism".
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