Mobile Weblogs Accelerating Personal News TrendStar Wars Kid, move over. Mobile Weblogs - moblogs, for short - are accelerating the time to newsworthiness of personal reporting. A moblog is what you get when you publish content from a mobile device such as a cell phone to a Weblog on the Internet. Sounds kind of "so what" until you remember that many cell phones today are equipped with camera capabilities.
According to TechNewsWorld, an incident in a Singapore university classroom in which a teacher was humiliating a student was caught on camera by a moblog-equipped student and published instantly for the world to see. The incident became a widely discussed "cause celebre" in Singapore almost overnight. When personal publishing gets this immediate, and its societal implications almost as immediate, it's difficult to discount the importance of its impact. In the old days we used to wait for 'Film at 11" to catch fresh electronic news on our local TV broadcasts. In the 1990's you waited for the CNN crew to get there. Now, news can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and reach the world with pictures and words instantly.
