Moblogging - A definition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/moblog
Moblog is a blend of the words mobile and weblog . A mobile weblog, or moblog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile or portable device, such as a cellular phone or PDA. Moblogs generally involve technology which allows publishing from a mobile device.
Much of the earliest development of moblogs occurred in Japan, among the first countries in the world where camera phones (portable phones with built-in cameras) were widely commercially available.
According to Joi Ito 's History of Moblogs, the first post to the web from a mobile user was from Steve Mann in 1995 . He used a wearable computer, a more elaborate predecessor to modern moblogging devices. The first post to the Internet from an ordinary mobile device is believed to be by Tom Vilmer Paamand in Denmark in May 2000 .
The term "moblogging" itself was coined by Adam Greenfield to describe the practice in 2002 . He went on to organise the First International Moblogging Conference (or 1IMC) in July 2003 in Tokyo , with the help of Paul Baron , Gen Kanai , Carsten Schwesig and Steve Graff. Less known about is the First International Love Hotel Moblogging Conference that took place a day before the real 1IMC event.
The term is sometimes pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable - MOBlog - out of affinity with the ideas about social self-organization developed in Howard Rheingold 's "Smart Mobs".
Mo-blogs made from portable devices are also sometimes known as cybor gLogs , abbreviated as 'glogs, especially when primarily image-based.
Moblogging Bible - http://joiwiki.ito.com/joiwiki/index.cgi?moblog&login=user79420
".......I think that "Moblogging" like "Blogging" isn't really something that technically new. It is the popularization and the impact of many people doing it that is exciting to me. Blogging can be said to be just online diaries. Moblogging is just mail-to-web. Moblogging is just an extention of wearable computing. Fine. Call it whatever you like, but let's do it, make it widely available and have fun and change the world..........."
. First Known Moblog - http://tom.paamand.dk/moblog.htm
"...... By Tom Vilmer Paamand - October 2004
A political action inspired to the first direct SMS to web page.
Cell phone to web online diaries is now called moblogs. I had that system running on my website from May 2000 , which seems to be the first one known in the world :). Later, at January 2001 , Stuart Woodward posted from a cell phone to his LiveJournal on the web, and others started slowly to use the same principle during 2002.
I made a simple script, which converted incoming emails made as SMS from a standard cell phone to a webpage - live to see just after. I actually developed the idea in 1999 with my son Simon, but first found practical use for it from May 2000 "
Moblogging News - http://moblog.busythumbs.com/entry_id/143288/action/viewentry/
5th April 2005, 16:14
The BBC is reporting that google are playing with Video Blogging. "Larry Page told a conference in San Francisco that the company will be archiving peoples video clips, starting in the next few days". This is an unusual move by google to be so honest about 'vlogging' which is a natural progression from moblogging whereby video clips are uploaded for people to watch.
Moblogging is ideal for exisiting mobile infastructures as the pictures are easily uploaded to a service provider who embeds them into a blog outline. With video blogging, 3G services do provide the bandwidth to send the videos, but coverage is scattered and data is still costly.
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