Now that I've got my new mobile smartphone, I'm eager to explore how it can be used for blogging. I can post blogs via my website, but going online can be slow on the phone. So now I'm playing with mo:Blog, an offline blogging tool for Palm-based mobile phones.
It has a lot of potential, particularly for simple text entries. But I'm eager to figure out a way to get it to upload photos taken with my phone - in other words, mobile photo blogging, or MoPhlogging. to coin a term.
Mophlogging could simply be a fun way to post camera phone pics to a blog without too much hassle, but I could also imagine it becoming a powerful way for activists and budding journalists to post noteworthy images to the Internet in near-real time.
For example: imagine taking a picture with a camera phone of overzealous policemen roughing up activists at a political protest, then posting it immediately on a blog, with text commentary of what was taking place. Combine that with a mobile audio blog (something else I'm exploring - more on that soon) and you could create a really powerful blog experience, a modest version of the human rights video initatives of groups like Peter Gabriel's Witness.org or OneWorld TV.
So, my moblogging and mophlogging experiments will continue. Stay tuned to see what I can come up with... ac
Posted by acarvin at April 2, 2004 05:02 PM | TrackBack