Moblogging

Good dis­cus­sion over at Dave Winer’s on the term ‘moblog­ging’. I’ve wrote about the same thing about a year ago and now it comes back to haunt me as I try and find the time to fol­low up on my ini­tial thoughts on a lit­tle brushup of this site. More on that later; I’ll do a seper­ate post includ­ing a to do-ish wish­list with fea­tures etc.

Back to the moblogging-discussion: I agree that the ‘mo(bile)’ in ‘moblog­ging’ should be taken seri­ously; you can moblog every­thing (audio, video, images etc.) and not only from mobile phones — I would say that every mobile device counts. And while I don’t exactly mind when and how the post gets trans­ferred to the server, I would say that the post in some way should gain by being made and/or actu­ally live trans­ferred for it to be truly moblog­ging. Which makes the url of my low-threshold image blog even more stu­pid; some of it is — some of it isn’t. It’s an image blog main­tained from a mobile phone but should prob­a­bly be renamed to ‘images on the go’ or some­thing sim­i­lar, allow­ing for a proper photo log (decent pic­tures taken with a real cam­era) and text-only mobile posts to the main blog. So that I will do — renam­ing ahead.

In related news, I’m attend­ing the “Does IT mat­ter” con­fer­ence tomor­row, fea­tur­ing Nicholas G. Carr, and will try and put my lit­tle tools to good use at the accom­pa­ny­ing site. As my phone doesn’t have wifi and the key­board isn’t really a key­board any­way, I’ll be sport­ing a lap­top as well. So it’ll prob­a­bly be a moblog/liveblog/regular blog but from a lap­top away from home-combo.

Now all we can do is wait for this moblogging-thing to become irrel­e­vant term-wise: Bet­ter on-the-go inter­faces for read­ing and writ­ing online con­tent ahead, I hope…

Update: Didn’t see Adam Green­field nail­ing it before post­ing. Appa­rantly his com­ment got deleted from Winer’s weblog which shouldn’t sur­prise any­one — but that’s not the point here.