In its worst nightmarish iteration, this is what you can look forward to when I start putting my nascent moblogging into high gear! (I can hear a stampede to the exits as I type). Seriously, it looks like a camera phone will be in hand soon (the above pic was taken a couple of weeks ago, by a friend — he sent it to Naoko for me, hence the hearts, which were added unbeknownst to me), so knock on wood expect something new and hopefully not too pedestrian in this neighborhood in the near future.
In the meantime, the First International Moblogging Conference has been announced, to take place July 5th at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo. One of the conference organizers, Adam Greenfield, recently offered yet another well-considered piece on moblogging (in part), and how his interest in it fits in with, rather than deviates from, his concerns of design and usability that many of his readers know him by:
[Moblogging] offer[s]… a potential way for people to comment on, to annotate their corner of the world: I trust this organic grocer, the lines at this bank are out of hand, I got mugged at this corner a year to the day after my friend did, and so on. It’s this otherwise invisible or difficult-to-retrieve information that can help people make better choices about their neighborhoods, their resource allocations, and ultimately, where and how they want to live. This is a lot to ask of some software that lives on your phone, admittedly, but there’s nothing here beyond reach.
I have yet to decide the why’s and wherefores of adding moblogged posts to this site (and like this site over the last year, chances are a decision won’t be made, but rather an ongoing discovery process will be set in motion), but suffice it to say, Adam’s vision is nearer to my heart than the above, er, hearts.