moblogger

"Get Ready for Moblogs - Turn an ordinary blog into a moblog by including pictures from your Pocket PC or Smartphone. Check back here in December to learn how to create yours."

* WCDMA/GSM 900/1800 Dual Mode
* 65K color screen
* 87mm x 78 mm x 18.6 mm
* Integrated MP3/AAC music player
* Bluetooth, Infrared, USB
* VGA resolution camera (can take video as well)
* 3GPP video streaming

The French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy held a conference on June 30th where he mentioned the case of a woman who attempted to send a SMS while driving at over 100 mph. She plowed into a police car on the roadside, killed two policemen and badly wounded two more. The minister said "for a text message, five families are now shattered".

From the wonderful riches of unwired comes this gem: a group called CASPIAN is exploring the idea of a moblog-powered virtual protest. The concept is simple: instead of using mobile phones to spread the word to fellow protesters to meet at a specific time and location, photo-enabled phones allow the protest itself to remain virtual. Simply create a centralized web site to collect the photos, then ask people to send in pictures of themselves protesting the issue at hand. CASPIAN, concerned about privacy issues related to RFID tags, is asking for photos of people holding up "STOP RFID" signs: the resulting photos are being collected at CASPIAN's textamerica site.

Blogging Goes Mobile
With moblogging on the rise, the blogging industry appears to be exploding
into the mainstream. With blogs that can be updated anytime, anywhere,
blogging takes advantage of current technologies and again reinvents the
self-publishing space on the Web.

(CNN) -- I've been writing and talking about weblogs and news feed readers to the point that folks think of me as some sort of "blog nut." By writing this column, I risk perpetuating that notion, but this is too big of a deal to keep quiet.

This column is directed at folks who haven't been online for very long and who may have very basic computers and connections, and young people using computers at schools or libraries or cyber cafés

An interesting read from moblogging.org:

I have recently read about how mobile, wireless, blogging, and Wi Fi technology have begun to revolutionize the way protest coverage is handled. In London, the BBC had a photo blog where anybody could upload jpgs of the large peace protests there. In San Francisco, a man walked around as a Wi Fi hot spot and posted instant news feeds on his Web site. In South Korea, the largest prodemocracy protest ever happened via em and text messaging.

Well, I am actually working on a different type of moblogging "activism" but which is of a much smaller scale that I think might be interesting to you. A trip on a motorcycle to tour all towns and cities in one country(in my case, it's Taiwan) and help people moblogging themselves using camera phones and upload to a group weblog. Since the majority of people are more likely to have camera phones than desktop computers in the future so I decided to engage in this project after coming back from moblogging conference. How this will change people's perception and attitude toward internet, mobile publishing and civil journalism is yet to be investigated after the trip. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated and I will be posting further details here.