Photo Moblogging
Camera phones have added a colorful new dimension to the text-heavy world of weblogging. With photo moblogging, you can publish pictures to the Web directly from your phone.
If you want to share your latest cool camera-phone photo with a lot of people, you should investigate the world of photo moblogs .
The word blog is a contraction of web log and refers to a linear, journal-like, informal text-entry system. A moblog is a mobile blog that allows entries to be made from a wireless mobile device, such as a wireless phone or PDA. Moblog content can be text, audio recordings, photographs, or even video. Figure 7-18 shows an example of a photo moblog. This hack will focus on moblogs that can handle photographs and videos. Perhaps we should call these kinds of moblogs multimedia blogs, or mublogs?
Figure 7-18. A Textamerica photo moblog
Just as text-based blogs let you satisfy the urge to be a journalist or essayist, photo moblogs let you satisfy the urge to be a photojournalist or photo essayist. Photo-moblog web services let you send your camera-phone photographs directly to your own web site. You don’t need to wait to get back to a desktop computer or buy an additional hardware peripheral. You will, however, need email service from your mobile-phone service provider.
A growing number of photo-moblog sites offer free accounts:
- Buzznet (http://www.buzznet.com)
Buzznet lets ...
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