In Sept 2005 a search for ‘hurricane Katrina blog’ yielded more than 6 million results, triggering reminders of an earlier tsunami that also spurred blogs, and an untold number of SMS’s.
Far from heading for the hills, bloggers are now heading for their cellphones! And if blogging was about unabashed expression, then moblogs are expressions on-the-fly; emo on the go! And express they do – moblogs, like blogs, are occasionally brilliant, usually bland, at times shocking ..... but always a good read!“Elindra”, 27 who has been moblogging on mygamma.com since Aug 04, ‘can discuss any topic under the sun’ - and she frequently does. Her meandering moblog ‘another day in paradise’ gives frank opinions of work, bosses, taxi drivers and those “young adults these days (who) cannot take hard work”.
According to Mistari, who treats his phone as a creative outlet, “ when I would think of the next part to the story, I could be anywhere”. He blogs a new segment of the story each day and admits that “it took a little while, but as the story grew bigger, so did the amount of people reading it”
But, no matter what they write about, mobile bloggers are at it anywhere and everywhere. As more cellphones come with Internet access, users are finding more to do with their phones. Studies among mygamma users show that SMS and Internet services make up about 70% of mobile usage.
And people aren’t just ‘phoning’ in their thoughts and photos for mere publicity, they’re doing it for posterity and, as Mistari explaned, extending the limits of their experience through their cellphone.
“Yeah” he added “I dig it”
This week's top rated moblog on myGamma
Besides blogging, picture voting is popular, espescially with our Thai users.
Besides blogging, picture voting is popular, espescially with our Thai users.
