Notes:
I presented to you a concept how to leverage the widespread use of the mobile phone for a new application: the occasional reporting of news as they happen by the witnesses themselves.
This application becomes possible because of the development of several technologies: besides the mobile phone, entertainment through the Internet and the emerging Blogosphere with its standards are important enablers for this idea.
A web of trust is the basis for the news selection and filter mechanism of the network of Freeporters. This web can be implemented as a peer-to-peer network. Every node in this network is connected to other trusted nodes and fetches and recommends news items from those nodes. The interestingness of messages decays until a threshold where messages are dropped. This mechanism creates reputation and trust between the participants which makes it possible to automatically exchange messages.