The beta version of InaBin.com has launched, and this is one of the first sites that promotes citizen journalism from mobile users.
“It’s News, Again, Before It’s News” is the idea (and motto) behind “In-A-Bin,” whcih was designed to be a portal where anyone with a mobile phone can publish news instantly with a mere push of the button. This can include pictures or video submitted directly from the scene. So watch what you do or say, or else you might end up on InaBin!
I’m a bit surprised this is consider as one of the first sites ever. Scoopt, ScoopMedia, Moblog, Newbay (provides a vast amount of solutions for this), every blogging platform that supports cellphone blogging. another organization in Africa WHO HA
Last year I put up a blog for anyone in Israel and Lebanon to post their experiences during the ongoing conflict (http://itf.typepad.com, I had a friend travelling through Kenya and Ethiopia using cellphones to post his experiences and what he saw. I can go on with examples
The post accidentely got posted before it was finished. The organisation in Africa is called Fahamu.
The link to the blog should be http://itf.typepad.com/lebanon. It was covered by global media such as CNN, BBC, and Discovery.
Last year I developed techniques for anyone to setup such a system to post such as InABin at Stanford and it is called inthefieldONLINE.net. It enables anyone to post to any site via any cellphone.
Good information Erik. Thank you for letting us know!