mobile blogging |
Mobile blogging is an exciting
phenomenon that is sweeping the blogosphere. One of the reasons why a lot of
bloggers are attracted to the medium of blogging in the first place is that
they enjoy being able to make frequent updates and posts that keep all of their
visitors up to speed with current situations. Mobile blogs, or "moblogs,"
take this to the extreme by allowing users to post things literally as they
happen. This new wave of moblogs and mobloggers keep web surfers up to date with
good and bad events of importance as they occur all over the world, helping to
make international communication faster and more accurate.
Many people feel that the
limitations of blogging have a lot to do with geography. After all, there is
only so current that a blog can be when you need to run home and boot up in
order to update it. However, mobile blogging marks the beginning of an
thrilling new era when web-based communication can happen spontaneously from
any location. Moblogging devices mean that there is almost nowhere on the
planet that remains off-limits for bloggers.
Mobile blogging is still in its
infancy because the technology that makes it possible has only recently hit the
global market. The first moblog technology became available over a decade ago,
but it is only the past two or three years that mobile web devices have become user-friendly
enough to appeal to most consumers. As camera phones and other mobile
technology become more popular, more and more bloggers are getting away from
their desks and are hitting the streets. Moblogging is becoming much more
widespread that it was even a few months ago, and mobloggers are quickly
attracting a lot of attention with the blogging community. It is not yet clear
whether moblogs will become the dominant kinds of blogs in the years to come,
but the current trend seems to imply that moblogs are here to stay.
Mobile devices make it possible
to blog from the sites where current events are unfolding, which is one of the reasons
why mobile blogging has so much thrilling potential to revolutionize the
blogosphere. A moblogger with a camera phone can post blog entries from, say,
the foot of the podium at a presidential speech, or from the stands during the
final moments of the world series.
This enables bloggers to
experience the same real time thrills that live television coverage provides,
but in a more democratic medium. The combination of mobility and individual
control that moblogging provides certainly places mobloggers on the cutting
edge of today's communications technology, and it is hard to imagine that the
number and prestige of moblogs will not continue to grow in the coming years.
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