Less than a year from Dan Gillmor’s “the former audience” Japanese camera phones moblogging-the-news scenario, the team at BBC News Interactive have made it reality:
“if you think you have a picture worth looking at, if you found yourself in the right place at the right time, send it to BBC News Online.
If you want to send your picture from your mobile phone, dial 07970 885089. You can send them from any network or phone.”
Also – check out the copyright notice at the bottom of the page….
» BBC News: Talking Point: Send us your pictures
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Update: Nice mention/analysis on Dan Gillmor’s blog.
Petafloptimism 
Great to see BBC is picking up on the photo Moblog idea.. 😎
I wonder though about their comment;
“(usually 640×480 pixels) taken by the mobiles. Otherwise they are too small to publish.”
Here in Japan the max. file size to e-mail from your celly is about 15k, therefore cam-phone images are limited to 160×120.. While my Sharp SH-52 can select/save hi-res. version on the SD memory card and export to my lap-top, does E.U have handset models capable of same..?!?
cheers,
Lawrence.
BBC News Moblog
Great example of the media harnessing new technology. Now all we need is video. Interesting, this was EXACTLY the example I always used to give when I talked about the future of Internet and IT. This was also the
The BBC starts to take distributed news reporting seriously
BBC News to start publishing phonecam images from the public. Not exactly the revolutionary moment some suggest but an interesting portent nonetheless.