Moblogging moblogging moblogging mo!

Shanghaiist only recently mastered the ins and outs of computer-based blogging and we'll be damned if there aren't already newer, hipper things come to replace it. Video blogging, or "vidblogging" as it's sometimes known, is pretty cool, and we've seen people using video-sharing sites to this end or else just embedding their videos into their blogs. China Mobile is now trying to get into mobile blogging, also known as "moblogging," where your mobile phone becomes the tool with which you update and submit content to your blog. This site explains the concept well, and Blogger, which is no longer grounded by the Internet nanny, has a moblogging service which allows you to submit photos, video, and text to a moblog they host. The moblog can either be stand-alone or else be embedded into a pre-existing blog by cutting and pasting the appropriate javascript.

Interestingly enough, on the third page of that article it says such technology could give birth to "grassroots journalists" who can take pictures of a church demolition building on fire before those slothful, traditional media types get around to it.

There are no specifics about how much this would cost -- you have to pay for the internet access as well as for the amount of information you're uploading -- but the idea seems to capitalize on the popularity of blogging with the greater universality of mobile phones (as compared to computers).

Photo from Niallkennedy's Flickr page.