Stuart Mudie of Blethers.com was nice enough to write me and let me know that my moblog had made an appearance over at Smart Mobs, the site about “mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks, [and] collective action” that accompanies the book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, by Howard Rheingold.
As you can see from the above screen grab, Kaika also made it up on the site. I called Naoko over to the computer to show her, and after explaining a bit about the site and who Howard was, she remarked, “boy, Kaika-kun is already becoming famous.” (Hmmn, I can see a headline: “5 WEEK OLD TYKE IN TOKYO ‘MOBBED’ BY FANS AFTER GETTING SMARTMOBBED”. Do they make shades for 5-week olds?)
The mention was occassioned by something Stuart had written a month and a half ago that I stumbled upon while compiling a list of “what is moblogging” article links for the moblog:
It won’t be long before new fathers, instead of handing out cigars, send pictures of their new-born children live to their moblogs from the birthing room. This is also news, of a kind – news that is of interest to a restricted group of people, admittedly, but worthy of record nonetheless.
I wish I had read this when he had published it, it would have hastened the purchase of the new phone, and indeed it would have been great to have moblogged pictures from the hospital.
Interesting how the technology evolves, huh?
I remember after our daughter was born. It was so primitive you wouldn’t believe it. I actually waited until I got home from the hospital to announce the birth. By e-mail. Pictures had to wait until the next day, when I scanned some of the shots I had taken the night before. Crazy, huh?
I’ll have to work a bit harder to redeem myself this time around. Yet somehow, given the relentless pace of all this blogging/moblogging/etc., I’m pretty sure that my children will consider it pretty unsophisticated when they look back on it.
I’m almost afraid to show them my baby pictures, some of which are even Polaroids. Or my parents’, which aren’t even in color! They’ll probably think that my generation only just recently evolved from being monkeys. 😉
It is interesting to realize via hmmn… that it may be more important to have a spare hard drive than a photo album for recording your baby’s progress these days. How are you archiving all this?
And No. 2:
I would like to officially petition that “Kaika Watanabe Easterwood” be amended to “Kaika Blogboy Watanabe Easterwood”, The famousest baby in J-blogdom.
Man Kurt, you have the most kawaii kodomo!
Dave