Mobile blogging

A moblog ( in the notation MoBlog ) is a blog that is filled from a mobile telecommunications device, usually a mobile phone or PDA with content. The portmanteau word made ​​up of the words " mobile" (English: "mobile", " mobile- phone ") and " weblog" together.

A moblog usually consists primarily of images that have been taken with a camera phone and provided on the mobile phone keypad with a short text comment. Picture and Text sent to your weblog via MMS or email. Occasionally, for transmission to the weblog special installed on the mobile phone programs called " weblog client " are used.

The first known moblogs originated in Japan, since there were camera phones fastest spreading. The term itself was used in 2002 by Justin Hall and Adam Greenfield. Greenfield organized in 2003 the first International Moblogging Conference in Japan. Became popular, the term in the summer of 2003 by the American media theorist Howard Rheingold, the citizens of the United States calling on the campaign trail for the 2004 presidential election with " moblog the conventions! " To vigilance in the democratic process.