[Newspaper announced moblog platform for newspaper Web site for posting of camera phone images of news events taken by readers.]

San Diego -- Moblog provider Textamerica is pleased to announce that it has been selected to provide the moblog platform for SignOnSanDiego.com, the Web site of The San Diego Union-Tribune.

SignOnSanDiego.com will initially use the platform to gather camera phone images of news events taken by their readers and post them directly to the Internet.

"With the San Diego wildfires and the East Coast blackout last year, we already have proven that moblogs represent an excellent vehicle for gathering unique images of major breaking news events" said textamerica founder Chris Hoar.

You can see the moblogs for those events at http://blackout.textamerica.com and http://fire.textamerica.com.

"We believe that moblogs will play an increasingly vital role for the news media, and that this move will put The San Diego Union-Tribune at the forefront of that movement," Hoar said.

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