The Evolving Newsroom

This just caught my eye on Twitter - it's top tips from BBC blogger Robin Hamman on the tools and services you need to blog live from a conference. Really good stuff:

1. Make sure you've got all the kit you need and are subscribed to all the services you might want to use. The essentials pieces of kit you'll want are:

• laptop with full battery
• charger
• mobile, preferably with good camera and usb charger
• optional: digital camera, microphone, recording device, video camera

The essential services you'll want to be subscribed to or familiar with are:

• twitter
• an rss reader (if you don't use RSS yet see this explanation)
• flickr (for photos) and a video sharing service (youtube, bliptv, qik, etc)
• optional: a blog, friendfeed, del.icio.us

2. Figure out what the conference tag is going to be and use it. Some conference organisers are starting to announce the conference tag in advance. In the case of Social Media Influence, a twitter account with the name SMIuk08 has been set up so I'm assuming that's the tag they will want people to use as well.

I meant to link to this a while back. For those of you interested in mobile developments, check out the BBC's latest offering of the mobile version of bbc.co.uk.

Dagens Nyheter has launched a mobile phone package for its readers which includes free access to the daily newspaper's website.

"This is yet another way of distributing the news," Thorbjoern Larsson, Dagens Nyheter editor-in-chief and publisher, told AFP.

DN subscribers can buy the Nokia 6120 3G phone online and sign up for a 199-kronor (US$31) monthly plan which allows them to easily surf the website by hitting a special "DN" button.

Larsson told AFP the offer was already proving popular. "After we announced the launch this morning (Wednesday Dec 19), we received so many calls that our switchboard broke down. There's a lot of interest out there," he said.