Comments for Sona Patel

Comment on Learning by doing by Sona

Sona — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:45:07 +0000

Ludo, thanks for your tips! I’ll definitely check those gloves out. I was also having an issue with my touchscreen getting wet. It’d be great if those gloves would be able to soak up a little water. Thanks for reading!

Comment on Learning by doing by Sona

Sona — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:44:03 +0000

Thanks for your comment, SP! Haha. Yes, MoJo stands for Mobile Journalist. Yeah, I was totally thinking about your gloves. They’d be great for touchscreen phones. They’d also be good for wiping down the screen every once in awhile.

Comment on Learning by doing by SP

SP — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:13:25 +0000

Wow–that was an awesome, informative post. Those tips were excellent! Is “MoJo” for mobile journalism?

As for the “Freehands” mentioned by Ludo, you already know about those, you almost swiped them from me this past holiday! Just kidding, haha.

Comment on Learning by doing by Ludo Van Vooren

Ludo Van Vooren — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:49:29 +0000

Sona,

I was watching the event on the web from Washington, DC and, trust me, I felt your pain. Reading your blog, I thought I would point you to a couple of glove products secifically designed to work with touch screen phones.

The simple one is from Freehands and uses thumb covers that can be flipped open when you need to use the screen (http://shop.freehands.com/).

The second one is a lot more sophisticated and I think would work better. It is from Tavo products and uses special material at the finger tips to transmit heat from your fingers to the screen (http://www.tavoproducts.com)

As you continue to be sent out to cover stories in the lovely Seattle stories, you might want to get a pair of these gloves.

Comment on Learning by doing by Zuri

Zuri — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:27:43 +0000

Two things:

1) Going low-tech with phones doesn’t hurt. Meaning, if you can text instead of using data to tweet, you’ll more than likely be successful during peak usage. If you’re using a service like Ping.fm, this can also handle Facebook updates.

2) Never substitute a real video camera for a cell phone video camera. The quality isn’t worth the ease. And they’re more durable in bad weather situations. Even smaller HDV cameras.

Comment on All about audio by Zuri

Zuri — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:37:37 +0000

FYI, I went with freeplaymusic.com, which I think is straight to the point.

Comment on Networking at tweetups: Guest post by Joe Ruiz of KSAT.com by Zuri

Zuri — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:18:52 +0000

Joe,

Great stuff. I also hosted a Tweetup out here in Nevada City, Calif. I was actually pretty surprised by the number of people who attended. (51 signed the list with possibly 60 or so in the crowd.) It was good for a small town tweetup. And the great benefit I saw, being the MSM contact for those in the room, was they could finally ask questions of me and really gauge whether or not I can help them with their information needs. As the online community manager for my paper, that’s exactly what the mission of my job is. So all of what you said really resonated.

Comment on All about audio by Zuri Berry

Zuri Berry — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:43:57 +0000

How odd. I was looking for some free royalty music sites the other day for possible podcasts. Thanks. You’re tips are really helpful for a guy who is clearly wingin’ it.

Comment on Shooting video for the web by Zuri

Zuri — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:42:30 +0000

Thanks for the tips. I will put to use.

Comment on Privacy, please by Sona

Sona — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:34:00 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Are you in the process of creating a policy? I’d like to create one when I return to the paper, but I wouldn’t know where to begin!