Mobile Blogging is a New
Wave in the Blogosphere
By Donovan
Baldwin
Mobile blogging is a new and exciting phenomenon that is currently
sweeping the blogosphere.
One of the reasons why a number of bloggers are attracted to the medium
of blogging in the first place is that they prize the ability it allows
them to make frequent updates and posts that keep all of their visitors
up to speed with current situations. The expanding number of 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 and readers up
to date with both good and bad events of importance as they occur all
over the world, thus helping to make international communication faster
and more accurate.
There are many who feel that the limitations of blogging have a lot to
do with geography. After all, there is a built in limitation
on the "current" aspect of a blog 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 almost 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 arrived on the global stage.
The first moblog technology became available over a decade ago, but it
is only the past few 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
started getting away from their desks and began 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.
However, it is still not 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.
In short, 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.
For example, 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 and personal
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.
Can mobile blogging work if you are blogging for cash? Read Rob Benwell's, Blogging to the Bank, to find out more.
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