Camera Phone Reviews

'Cranking out a column after a presidential debate or publishing a prize-worthy photo of the next catastrophe just got a whole lot easier--no matter where or who you are.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have started to offer simple-to-use tools that let anybody with a digital camera or personal computer create blogs and produce homemade news.

When twinned with new technology like camera phones and handheld computers, it's now possible to publish pictures or jot notes from anywhere: the street, a beach, a restaurant. Seconds later the information is posted to a Web site for the world to read--and suddenly you've got a mobile Web blog, or moblog.

“Text messaging and camera phones have put two powerful storytelling tools in the hands of millions of potential correspondents around the world,” Robert Niles, editor of the Online Journalism Review at University of Southern California's journalism school, said in an e-mail exchange....'

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