Berkeley mobile field guide reviews hardware and software in interactive format
July 20, 2012 in General Media, Mobile, software, Tech Talk, video
The UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism has released a mobile reporting guidebook with reviews and ratings for a variety of software and hardware. It’s available as a PDF and as an iBook. The iBook features sample clips and screencast videos from various software and some of the capture hardware. This is similar in some ways to the Mobile Reporting Tools Pocket Guide Will Sullivan and crew produced at the Reynolds Journalism Institute a while back. #
The iBook version also showcases some of the things you can do with the interactive book format. #
As Lauren Rabaino notes at 10,000 Words, it’s iPhone-specific. So if you have an Android, not so much, although some of the hardware and software is not device-specific. Students helped produce the guidebook. #
This guidebook was the result of a mobile reporting class at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the work of Casey Capachi, Evan Wagstaff, Matt Sarnecki along with instructors Richard Koci Hernandez and Jeremy Rue. #
I just started using Mogulus last week here at the Baltimore Sun, and I can back up everything you're saying, especially the part about having two of everything. For me, the issues has been browser crashes, not camera crashes. Thanks for the post-mortem, Lauren.