Beeb Tries Moblogging

The Mobile World Congress provided the perfect opportunity for the BBC to dip its toe into the waters of mobile blogging.

Tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones used his mobile to upload regular posts to the dot.life group blog and used a cameraphone to record interviews with big names from Nokia and Microsoft.

Cellan-Jones described the experiment as a “modest start” in the field of moblogging and asserted that he will continue to try out different ideas over the coming weeks.

BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann said of the coverage: “The video is no-frills, quick and simple compared with what we might normally do, and it is decidedly rough around the edges, but it has immediacy and gets across the information.”

Writing on the Editors Blog, Herrmann added: “In a fitting coincidence, I’ve been reading their reports on a mobile, too, on my commute home, and have typed out this blog post en route with my thumbs. Who needs offices any more?”