Silent in the Morning

In this chapter, Brigg’s opens reader’s eyes to the importance of utilizing a mobile devices to publish news on the go.

From a journalist standpoint its important to use the phone to capture images, sounds, and even publish stories right from the palm of one’s hand.

As a result, Brigg’s outlines the gears, gadgets and services that journalist use on their mobile devices.

For example,

A gearhead for instance, in preparation of the day’s events would pack a laptop, camera, and audio recorder to name a few.

Whereas, a lightpacker, would only need his mobile phone.

From there either an individual could use their devices to mobile publish, mobile microblogging, mobile video, mobile multimedia or live blog.

*All of these methods could allow journalist to provide information and media right from the field, eliminating the need to return to the office.*

It is interesting to note how Brigg’s mentioned that many believe the mobile technology will change the media landscape even more than the Web did back in 1990.

We shall see…