Reporters, readers get new ways to publish and read

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• Yeah, this reminds me of The-Phone-Book.com in the UK: the first fiction magazine written entirely for cell phone (WAP) reading. I've contributed microfiction to several issues. I like the idea, but guess what: the site is closing its doors this year, after putting out 12 issues. The pleasure of the cell phone text is the assumed interaction with a person you know (or are getting to know) on the other end of the line. I think news is more likely to cathect to the IM culture (where advertisers have gone!). However, the PDA is another story...folks are willing to scroll/page down on a PDA and the success of Avant Go is telling. Since PDA journalism is porting over to the new color screen cell phones, the ONA article you site has some validity.

• hahaha Yeah, right. Just someone else exaggerating things to try to write an "interesting" story (calling news on the computer passe). I couldn't stand to read my email on a cell phone, because the display isn't big enough. News stories are even longer. Perhaps you can start getting headlines on your phone, but that's as much as is comfortable to read. And better displays aren't going to help much - what you need is more space, and that would mean a bigger phone. When the holographic display that can run on a cell phone battery comes around, I'll change my mind. :-)