Moblogging Goes Mainstream

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What is Mobl0gging?

What is Mobl0gging? 09/19/2004 02:42 AM

I spent much of yesterday with Scoble, we went to the ballgame, then Pike Place Market, where he bought flowers for his wife Maryam, and then on to a Tully's coffee shop where we figured out what Moblogging is.

First, why is it important that I of all people know what Moblogging is? Okay, as Zero Mostel says, I'll tell you. (Sorry.) Blame Rebecca MacKinnon, my former Harvard colleague, and former Tokyo bureau chief for CNN, and friend of Joi Ito. Rebecca keeps telling me that I must have a session about Moblogging at BloggerCon. At the closing session of the last BC, I asked the room if they felt we should have one, and everyone said yes we should. However, unless we know what Moblogging is, if we were to have a discussion about it, it seems we would spend all our time debating what it is and whether or not it belongs at a BloggerCon. Those are exactly the kinds of meta-discussions that I like to avoid. At all costs. So I want to know what it is, and if it's worth discussing.

So Scoble and I sat down for coffee with this mission in mind. To figure it out. To figure out what Moblogging is. And we did. We nailed it. We know. And now I'm going to tell you.

Moblogging is any activity that occurs away from your normal blog-writing place whose purpose is to create content for your blog.

So, when I took pictures of the coffee shop, that was moblogging.

When I wrote this explanation that was not moblogging, since I did it at my desk, fully supported by my normal high-speed net connection, laptop, multi-gigabyte external hard disk, second monitor, USB hub, mouse, etc etc. There were no distractions that come from being in the real world, no toll booths, gas gauges, semi-trailers, weather reports, ticket takers, hot dog vendors, fish throwers, jelly tasters that demand attention above and beyond the blogging I'm doing.

I was moblogging when I crossed the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, where it's just a slow-flowing creek. If I hadn't taken the pictures and later uploaded them, I still would have been delighted and impressed, but I wouldn't have been moblogging.

When I'm driving through the corn fields of Saskatchewan recording an audio blog post, I am moblogging. Here's a 15-second Quicktime movie that illustrates what it feels like to moblog while driving, from my point of view.

I am also moblogging when I almost drive off the road trying to hit pause on the recording. (In other words moblogging requires new hardware that is designed specifically for moblogging.)

In the future I will be moblogging when I hit the big red Record button on my iPod and talk into it for a half-hour while driving across the wheat fields of Alberta and then hit the big red button again to pause the recording and save it to the internal disk of the iPod. (A low battery also causes it to be saved.) I will be moblogging when I don't drive off the road into one of the wheat fields. ";->"

Before we came up with this definition, we were fumbling around trying to figure out if moblogging was more than taking pictures of things with cell phones and having them uploaded to some central server so we could point to them from our blogs. Yes yes, moblogging is more than that, it's a way of blogging, perhaps even a way of living. It's important and fully capable of supporting a 1.5 hour discussion at Bloggercon.

Bing!

Mobl0gging At First Sight

Mobl0gging At First Sight 05/05/2004 06:41 PM
Well, first people were getting dumpe d by SMS, but what if camera phones can help them find their one true soul mate? Already, there are a number of popular "missed connections" websites for people who saw the love of their life walk by on the street and were too stricken by love to actually say anything. As you might imagine, these sites rarely lead to any sort of actual connection. Still, pic turephoning.com points us to one entrepreneur has decided to take this to the next level. Instead of just saying things like "You were on the crosstown bus wearing a red sweater," you're supposed to snap a picture of your this one-true-love-you've-never-spoken-to with your camera phone and post it to a moblogging site. Then you hope that the person in question visits the site, sees him or herself, isn't creeped out beyond all belief that some weird person is taking secret pictures and posting them to the internet, contacts you, turns out to be normal despite visiting such sites and responding to such creepy come ons from folks who couldn't get up the nerve to just say "hi," and falls in love. Sounds like a real winner.

Mobl0gging Re(de)fined

Mobl0gging Re(de)fined 09/19/2004 11:52 AM
Dave Winer (after talking with Robert Scoble) writes a posting that decons tructs moblogging. This helps clarify the genre for me. Crucially, he points out that this isn't just about pictures. It's about mobility, and on-the-fly posting from whatever location strikes you as useful. It also requires hardware designed for the purpose. I have a terrific RSS reader for my mobile phone/PDA. Now I want something that lets me post as easily, and haven't found anything to match my needs. The software is improving, though. When I think about reader contributions to tomorrow's journalism, one of the most important roles will be presence. That is, when average folks are at a scene where the professional journalists are not, they can capture -- through observation, audio recordings, photos and video -- the elemental data of the situation. Moblogging is an essential part of this.

Mobl0gging Roller.

Mobl0gging Roller. 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Matt Raible has successfully tested Russell Beattie's world-fa mous ManyWhere Moblogger with Roller.

Mobl0gging from Flickr

Mobl0gging from Flickr 07/08/2004 01:54 PM

I think from now on - whenever there's a hot new technology or service that I KNOW Seb is gonna pick up - I'll wait for him to blog it. and then I'll just blog his post.

But what happens when Seb goes on vacation?

Anyway here's what he has to say about this coolio new Flickr feature.

Great move, guys. Notice how photo sharing service Flickr is not in the
business of blogging per se but keeps finding clever ways to ride the
wave. Integrating pictures is a pain point for the many people who
struggle with file uploading, management, and markup. Flickr nicely
lowers the barrier to entry here. Of course this synergy could not
happen if the blogging solutions didn't provide APIs for posting.

Here's what a hap py user had to say:

competent AP backgrounder on mobl0gging

competent AP backgrounder on mobl0gging 01/17/2004 10:48 PM
i'm always surprised when mainstream sotries do a really good job

Esther discovers Mobl0gging

Esther discovers Mobl0gging 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Now let's see if we can connect the dots:

Esther Dyson<->blogging/personal publishing<->photo objects/ease of authoring,->digital lifestyle aggregation.

new! improved! now with pictures!.

There's nothing like getting tech support from the head of the company....so while I was talking with Elliot Noss of Tucows about the small-business market that he serves, I also asked him how I could put pictures into my blog. Without hesitation, he recommended that I read the ... manual! which, lo and behold, shows it's quite easy!

 What's with all the "photo albums" and select categories and so on. It should be as easy as instantiating a link!Hey Elliot... it's *not* that easy...! but I finally got it to work...)

 herewith a picture of the Tower of London

  

 a place made more meaningful by being featured in Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, which I am in the middle of reading. (There will be a lot more of it in the third volume of the Baroque cycle, "the System of the world," he assures me.) that was earlier this week.

 On Thursday and Friday, I was visiting notable buildings of Washington. Here's some of the Capitol Building's underground railway....

 

It runs from one side of the Capitol to another, and contains, so I hear, components manufactured in each of the 50 states (which is why it took many years and more than $10 million to build). It's amazingly clean, and probably the only subway most of its senior passengers ever ride. On the other hand, working stiffs get to use it too!

And here's my friend Manus Cooney, a lawyer and lobbyist who's explaining these underground passageways to me; he's talking to Paul Martino, a lawyer for the Senate Commerce Committee.

Why was I there? One - talking with the Washingon wizards about the Accountable Net. And two - trying to find out the differences in tech policy between the two parties... stay posted.

[EDventure]

Wait a minute!  I thought Paul Martino was the CTO of Tribe.net?  :-)

I've been working with Paul recently - and so his name jumped out at me.

Paul got Tribe to support FOAF, RSS and Jabber.

Right on to Paul.  And right on to Esther to discovering the power of Personal MEDIA Publishing!

Many-to-Many: Mobl0gging from the front
and the new Reformation

Many-to-Many: Mobl0gging from the front
and the new Reformation 05/12/2004 05:26 AM
release of the Abu Ghraib photos and the Protestant reformation .. Gutenberg press .. Clay Shirky

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Late to the mobl0gging game

Late to the mobl0gging game 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
After nearly a day's worth of fiddling (and two years worth of delay in getting a mobile with a camera), I've got my phone posting photos to both Flickr and my new sidebar section Photographing. Right now the pictures are just junk shots from around the apartment as I trouble-shot many issues. And here's a weird one for those of you contemplating the Nokia 6600: I was unable to send my photos (as multimedia messages) to anyone until I'd first sent one to myself. Wha? Yup. That's what T-Mobile support told me. I said to the woman, "Well it's good I called. How on earth was I supposed to figure that out? Why's it like that?" And she said, "That's the way the system is designed." Of course that's the way the system's designed. [Insert requisite rant about retarded systems design here.] Aside from that, I'm psyched for more moblogging about town. Now I just need to get out of my bathrobe and actually go "about town."

pMobl0g - Pmachine Mobl0gging

pMobl0g - Pmachine Mobl0gging 02/13/2004 12:48 AM
http://www.sacredsmile.com/moblog/ pMoblog - Moblogging for pMachine pMoblog is an (beta) add-on for pMachine allowing you to post an entry with attachment to your blog straight from your mobile phone! Shoot an image, send it through email and it's posted onto your moblog within minutes! Wow....now all I need is a cam phone....

big upgrades to our mobl0gging tools

big upgrades to our mobl0gging tools 02/16/2004 01:17 PM
support for audio, much better presentation of images, and some clients for devices like Treo

mobl0gging a subway argument

mobl0gging a subway argument 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
man, i'm glad i'm not *that* guy

Joi Ito's Web: Mobl0gging update

Joi Ito's Web: Mobl0gging update 12/24/2002 03:10 AM
Joi Ito's Web: Moblogging update. Mobile Weblogging. It had to happen. Kind of cool to see the trend ripple across. The underlying article says there are 2M hits on Google for weblogging already. Wow.

Soldiers mobl0gging from the frontlines

Soldiers mobl0gging from the frontlines 05/08/2004 02:29 PM

James Hong of Hot or Not and Yarfo has a page of links to moblogging from soldiers on the front line in Iraq on Yarfo.

via Greg

Mobl0gging from the Nokia 6600 with Atom
API

Mobl0gging from the Nokia 6600 with Atom
API 02/11/2004 07:05 PM

Christian is "Mr. UI" of Nokia. He gave me this cool application yesterday.

Christian Lindholm

Pertti Korhonen, Nokia’s new CTO introduced PhotoBlog for Series 60 in his keynote at ETech in San Diego. This application proof-of-concept is supporting the Atom API enabling users to post to leading blog platforms. The application was developed by Futurice, who is developing a Photblog platform.

This lets you post photos to your TypePad (or any other Atom API compliant) photo album directly from the phone without going through email.

mobl0gging barcodes as a shopping
technique

mobl0gging barcodes as a shopping
technique 01/19/2004 04:14 PM
nice to see amit's byline on this piece

Flickr adds CC mobl0gging for any webl0g

Flickr adds CC mobl0gging for any webl0g 07/08/2004 07:13 PM

A couple weeks ago, we mentioned Flickr added support for Creative Commons licenses to their photo uploading and hosting service. This week, they've announced a pretty amibitious new feature: mobile phone blogging for almost any blog service.

It works like this: you setup an account at Flickr, enable moble blogging features by inputing details about your blog, choose a CC license, and you'll be able to post photos from your phone to any Blogger, LiveJournal, Movable Type, and/or Typepad powered weblog. Here's a great example blog of CC-licensed photos being posted through Flickr.

I'm really impressed with this new feature. I've built my own similar system and it required a weekend of hacking and data spread across three servers. Now anyone can have a similar setup by simply using the free Flickr service in just a few minutes.

Mobl0gging Fortune's Brainstorm Con in
Aspen

Mobl0gging Fortune's Brainstorm Con in
Aspen 07/14/2004 10:00 AM
Cameron Sinclair, the man who co-founded a very interesting organization called Architecture for Humanity, is mo-pho-blogging Fortune Magazine's Brainstorm Conference. Here's a Link to the blog.

Everything TypePad: Breathing Life into
Mobl0gging

Everything TypePad: Breathing Life into
Mobl0gging 04/05/2005 07:56 PM
When I started working at Six Apart, I pledged to get a new camera phone and try this whole “moblogging” thing for myself. I admit it, I was skeptical at first. Primarily because my experiences with camera phones up...

Virtual mobl0gging with Second Life and
TypePad: markpasc.org

Virtual mobl0gging with Second Life and
TypePad: markpasc.org 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
Virtual moblogging with Second Life and TypePad: markpasc.org .. TypePad

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anonymous instant photo-phone mobl0gging

anonymous instant photo-phone mobl0gging 12/31/2003 02:24 PM
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CEBIT LIVE: Mobl0gging meets Siemens

CEBIT LIVE: Mobl0gging meets Siemens 03/14/2005 04:18 PM
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a page of links to mobl0gging from
soldiers on the front line in I

a page of links to mobl0gging from
soldiers on the front line in I 05/11/2004 02:22 AM
Photoblogs from some troops in Iraq .. fotobloggers na linha de frente .. Yafro

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My first successful UK full-size
mobl0gging picture from my Nokia 6230

My first successful UK full-size
mobl0gging picture from my Nokia 6230 08/28/2004 11:16 AM

a page of links to mobl0gging from
soldiers on the front line in Iraq on
Yarfo

a page of links to mobl0gging from
soldiers on the front line in Iraq on
Yarfo 05/09/2004 01:47 AM

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I am not mainstream

I am not mainstream 01/01/2004 05:09 PM
With all the "top 10 foo of 2003" lists floating about, I'm becoming more and more aware how mainstream I'm not. It all started with reading the Top Searches 2003 from Yahoo! and the 2003 Google Zeitgeist. I have never used KaZaA, didn't read or see Harry Potter, haven't seen the new Matrix film, never watched American Idol, and I don't find Britney Spears attractive. I couldn't tell you what sport Kobe Bryant plays (and don't care either, thanks). Last...

We're all mainstream now

We're all mainstream now 08/09/2004 11:11 AM
Oh, bravo! RSS Equalizer - The Day Syndication Jumped the Shark....

The Mainstream Mash-Up

The Mainstream Mash-Up 12/17/2004 06:34 PM

"The Mainstream Mash-Up" makes it onto the New York Times' list of great ideas of 2004. Question #1: Where is Creative Commons here? Don't they read WIRED at the NYTimes? Question #2: How "mainstream" is a concocted mash-up between Linkin Park + Jay-Z? Hats off to them for innovating, but this is just the tip of the iced-down Rolex.

Watch the Fine Art of Sampling contest, starting here soon, for the real deal.

Digital Goes Mainstream

Digital Goes Mainstream 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
New York Times Dec 29 2004 3:30AM GMT

Pop-ups are going mainstream, report
says

Pop-ups are going mainstream, report
says 06/30/2004 11:03 AM
A researcher finds that companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Verizon are among the prime users of pop-up advertising.

Blogging could be going mainstream

Blogging could be going mainstream 03/16/2003 12:25 PM
Google, maker of the Web's most popular search engine, created the biggest blogging stir of late by snapping up San Francisco start-up Pyra Labs, which runs ...

Brian goes mainstream

Brian goes mainstream 06/07/2004 09:49 PM
A newsweekly in San Diego is running thirty days of Brian Dear's blog as a feature story. He's got the cover, no less. Plus, they're paying honest-to-goodness money. Sweet!...

Streaming More Mainstream

Streaming More Mainstream 04/16/2004 09:08 PM
Internet.com Apr 17 2004 1:25AM GMT

Web services hit the mainstream

Web services hit the mainstream 05/14/2004 10:41 AM
Personal Computer World May 14 2004 2:28PM GMT

Mainstream mashups!

Mainstream mashups! 04/14/2004 06:41 PM

Cool: David Bowie has just launched a new mashup contest. There's a new ad campaign for Audi cars that features two of Bowie's songs mashed up. They've decided to throw a mashup contest to capitalize on this, awarding a new car to the best song that uses samples from his new album and any older Bowie song. Voting on entries starts this weekend and the contest ends next month so get your turntables cranking.

Blogs take on the mainstream

Blogs take on the mainstream 12/31/2004 05:14 AM
Blogs have shifted the balance of information online, argue experts, and they are here to stay.

Micropayments Going Mainstream? Not Yet

Micropayments Going Mainstream? Not Yet 01/11/2004 09:24 PM
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"Out of the Mainstream? Hardly
(washingtonpost.com)"

"Out of the Mainstream? Hardly
(washingtonpost.com)" 12/22/2003 10:09 AM

Podcasts Go Mainstream

Podcasts Go Mainstream 03/30/2005 12:55 AM

Less than one year old, podcasting seems poised to go mainstream. Onc ethe exclusive province of talkative technologists, do-it-yourself musicians, and obsessed hobbyists, this broadcasting platform has been embraced lately by some mainstream media. By Tom Spring, PC World

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Sudden action: How FreshDirect alerted
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OpenBase acquires Code Builder, RB
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Half-Life Code Thieves Nabbed

Half-Life Code Thieves Nabbed 06/11/2004 04:55 AM
Game developer Valve Software says authorities have arrested multiple suspects in connection with the Half-Life 2 code theft. The game code was stolen and posted online last year. By Noah Shachtman.

Half-Life 2 code thieves arrested

Half-Life 2 code thieves arrested 06/14/2004 03:38 AM
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FBI joins hunt for Half-Life code

FBI joins hunt for Half-Life code 01/22/2004 06:35 AM
The FBI joins efforts to track down who took the code to one of the year's most eagerly awaited PC games.

Half-Life 2 code leaked online

Half-Life 2 code leaked online 06/13/2004 01:11 AM
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Half-Life code leak could be due to the
Phatbot trojan

Half-Life code leak could be due to the
Phatbot trojan 05/18/2004 06:08 PM

IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
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IBM Rolls Out Alpha-Code Life Sciences
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Walking a Thin Line: Life Versus Code

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Sasser author also had a hand in Half
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Arrests made in Half-Life 2 source code
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Arrests made in Half-Life 2 source code
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Today Valve Software said that multiple arrests have been made internationally in relation to the theft of the Half-Life 2 source code we reported last Fall. According to Gabe Newell, the arrests were made possible by the cunning of gamers.

Arrest made in Half-Life 2 code theft
says Valve

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Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft
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Code-theft suspects nabbed, claims
Half-Life 2 team

Code-theft suspects nabbed, claims
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UMaine launches free
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UMaine launches free
culture/code/knowledge service 12/16/2003 11:12 AM
The University of Maine has launched "Still Water," a copyright-free zone for posting and sharing images, music, videos, programming code and texts.

"We are training revolutionaries -- not by indoctrinating them with dogma but by exposing them to a process in which sharing culture rather than hoarding it is the norm," said Joline Blais, a professor of new media at the University of Maine and Still Water co-director.

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The art of the bar-code 03/13/2003 11:28 AM
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Moblogging Goes Mainstream

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