By David Weinstein on 7/17/2008 9:41 AM

Three screens.  Smart phones.  Locative media.  I recently participated in Beyond Broadcast, Silverdocs, and the Digital Media Conference. At each of these conferences, there was lots of buzz about applications and content for mobile phones.  According to a market summary by m:metrics, there are 226 million mobile phone subscribers in the United States. Twenty-seven percent of these subscribers use their phone for Internet browsing or downloading.  Internet use is expected to rise dramatically in the near future.  Most phones in use (about ninety percent) have browsing capabilities. Mobile technology offers tremendous potential to provide scholarly content about historic places.  In the humanities, the technology is becoming especially popular...

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