Pocketcasting - live!

I haven't had time to post to this blog for a few days, as I've been busy setting up my new HTC Touch Pro mobile phone. (In passing, Vodafone UK weren't very switched on in activating my new account with them and were slow doing the network transfer from O2 - I was offline for about eight hours.) However, the effort in researching software and installing it, and syncing everything with my old HTC device and my PC, has paid off - I am now pocketcasting. Better than that, I am now able to pocketcast live. Actually streaming from the phone.

As I wrote in an earlier post, these new generation mobile phones are game changers. They usher in a post-Facebook, post-rolling news era of constant, 24/7 personal connectivity. With these devices, communication becomes, in a real sense, real time; and so also, from a journalism perspective, does the information and news flow to the individual.

I'll post more on this later but for the moment take a look at Qik. This downloadable software for cam phones and Qik's servers enable live video streaming from your phone. When I bought the HTC, I expected to be able to record video on it and upload quickly to Twitter or Pownce. But I didn't expect to be webcasting from the phone, live. But, with Qik, you can.