Hi Peter
Sorry for the late reply. Up here we are experimenting with websites that are
optimised for mobile phones. The iPhone works best with them.
These are based on www.qwe.com.au which is a directory that is easy to dial up
on an iphone. The first 3 letters on a qwerty keyboard followed by .com
(iPhones have a .com button) and .au
I have a digital business card www.qwe.com.au/cd and plan to do some Cairns
birdwatching information pages in the off-season.
One aspect with the iPhone is that you can add a button to the home screen for
the page you are on and all you have to do is touch the button when you need
that page again.
It is only a matter of time before you will be able to access a national field
guide on an iPhone either as an application (there is one for South Africa
already) or from the web. The field guide could include, text, illustrations,
photos, video, bird calls, sightings, maps, bulletins, trip reports and be kept
up to date by the author/editor/webmaster. The cost to the user might even be
free if web based or, a small cost if an application. In a digital format it
could be adapted to a "Kindle", "BeBook" or some such.
With the last newspaper due off the presses some time in 2015, or earlier, it
is an exciting time for this digital concept and it will be a lot kinder to the
environment.
Chris Dahlberg
Daintree
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