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April 30, 2003
moblogging | consolidation @11:13 PM
Manywhere Software (I need to get a new phone)
Newbay Moblogging Software - a website for every mobile phone. Intriguing idea, if you get beyond the marketing / PR sound of it. The idea with these is to make blogging as easy as sending an email to yourself that has multimedia attachments - the systems (the first is free, the second is a pay service) parse the data from the email, make the text of the email into the "post" and the other media elements are simply attached to the post. If moblogging is able to maintain it's velocity, not only will the "personal web page" be redefined and more content oriented, the proliferation of this information and media will force us to devise systems that filter out what we don't want, and easily access that which we do. This is where the idea of the semantic web comes into play. Being able to find information in a way that is mapped to a more semantic / schematic cognitive process.
How will these semantics be defined / controlled? How will these moblogs be controlled? The corporate world is certainly interested. What does corporate control of these systems and networks mean? Ask Lawrence Lessig. The consolidation of this information under major corporate umbrellas is certainly scary. The Future of Music Coalition has an interesting article about how FCC radio deregulation resulted in a consolidation of radio stations that ended up being highly detrimental to musicians. TV network consolidation has also been steadily occuring over the last decade. As this graph indicates, there may be 500+ channels, but they are still all controlled by the usual suspects.
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