Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 6/10/2003

Disclaimer: These are resources that have inspired me or I have found in one way or another. This is by no means complete. Please email me at jito@neoteny.com if have anything that you think I should add. I'll clean up the formating once I have more data.

I think that "Moblogging" like "Blogging" isn't really something that's technically new. It is the popularization and the impact of many people doing it that is exciting to me. Blogging can be said to be just online diaries. Moblogging is just mail-to-web. Moblogging is just an extention of wearable computing. Fine. Call it whatever you like, but let's do it, make it widely available and have fun and change the world.

Features necessary for mass-moblogmapping (our goal)

ability to post to a blog from a mobile device

• mail to post - Standard feature in many blog packages (see blogcomp for a comparison) Movable Type Doesn't include it so you can use QMAIL2MT.PL (PERL) or mail2entry (python) to do it.
• deals with attached images - mail2entry (Movable Type), Kuku Radio tool (Radio Userland), NewBay FoneBlog
• access control or some security feature - currently everyone uses security through obscurity
• Audio Blogging - Audblog blogging service for Blogger from mobile phones

Location

• Linking locations to blogs
• BlogmapperTM, GeoURL ICBM Address Server
• Linking blogs to locations
• Blogchalking
• Location information from mobile devices
• AU Phone
• Mangement of uploaded photos in blog format
• auto thumbnailing - Fotolog (hosted service), Movable Type
• Supporting open standards such as MetaWeblog API

A chronology of articles, events and resources

About moblogging

• February 1995 - wearcam.org as roving reporter Steve Mann
• May 31, 2000 - First moblog from a cell phone by Tom Vilmer Paamand
• June 15, 2000 - First moblogging while detained by the police
• January 4, 2001 4:16p - Stuart Woodward first posts from his cellphone on Stuart Woodward's LiveJournal using J-Phone, Python and Qmail
• January 6, 2001 15:09 - First reported posting from under the sea
• 2001 (Howard, please give me the exact date) - Howard Rheingold coins the word "Smartmobs"
• Thursday, March 1, 2001 - First post by SMS to David Davies' SMSblog and his announcement on the Radio Userland Support List
• Fall 2001 - Ian McDowall and Mark Bolas do moblogging with DoCoMo FOMA phones
• January 11, 2002 - Radio Userland released with mail to post feature
• January 13, 2002 - A text post from an Docomo P503i to Al's Radio Weblog
• February 18, 2002 - Hiptop Photo Gallery started by Michael Morrissey (using procmail and PERL script later improved by Dave Bort who shared it to people including Mike Popovic who started Hiptop Nation)
• February 2002 - Justin Hall posts pictures and text to Jiqoo.com using a a J-Phone and Brian Hooper's code. (Link is now dead)
• February 20, 2002 - First moblogging from the top of a tree
• February 20, to June 28, 2002 - First 131 days long weblog
• Spring 2002 - Sean Bonner makes numerous text posts to his blog using a palm pilot and Greymatter blog software.
• Fisher, Scott S., " An Authoring Tool Kit for Mixed Reality Experiences, International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002): Special Session on Mixed Reality Entertainment, May 14 - 17 2002 - PDF, Tokyo, Japan
• Summer 2002 - Kuku Nipernaadide - Estonian moblog started by Peeter Marvet
• May-July 2002 - T-Mobile Sidekick/Hiptop Beta Program
• October 1, 2002 - T-Mobile Sidekick launch moblog (Danger internal) 149 pictures in 24 hours
• Friday October 4, 2002 9:15a - Hiptop Nation created by mikepop
• October 31, 2002 - Hiptop Nation Halloween Scavenger Hunt
• November 5, 2002 - Adam Greenfield coins the term "Moblogging"
• November 21 2002 - The Feature article From Weblog to Moblog by Justin Hall
• Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - Stuart Woodward's first image posted from a cell phone
• November 27, 2002 10:41p - Joi Ito's Moblog (using attached image mail to MT)
• December 3, 2002 - Sander Raaymakers of headspinners+co launches Mobiblog.com site with live text/photo blogging from Sidekick. ColdFusion/SQL. Om Malik views Dec. 6th.
• December 4, 2002 - Milano::Monolog blogs text from mobile phones (Japanese)
• December 12, 2002 - Guardian article Weblogs get upward mobility
• December 31, 2002 - New Year's Eve Moblog Blog-Misoka by JBA
• January 8, 2003 - electricnews.net Start-up marries blogs and camera phones
• January 8, 2003 - The Register Start-up marries blogs and camera phones
• January 9, 2003 - Robert announces PhoneBlogger
• May 26, 2003 - Mie Kennedy posts the first GPS/location tagged cell phone image to her weblog.
• 2002 - Capture for Wearable Computer Evaluation by Kent Lyons and Thad Starner, College of Computing, GVU Center, Georgia Institute of Technology (pdf file)
• 2002 - Cyborglogs ("glogs") by Steve Mann
• 2002 - Cyborg Logs and collective stream of (de)consciousness capture for producing attribution-free informatic content such as cyborglogs by Steve Mann
• November 2003 - Mat Brown and Alfie Dennen create moblogUK, Creative Commons Licensed moblog service.

How to moblog (moblogging code)

• June 11, 2002 - Who the hell is Nipernaadi? by Peeter Marvet
• Summer 2002 - Kuku Radio (attached image mail to Radio tool) - Explanation on how to use mail to Radio moblog tool
• December 4, 2002 9:37p - QMAIL2MT.PL (text mail to MT script) posted yoshiki (Japanese)
• December 4, 2002 - Milano::Monolog explains how to post text to MT from Japanese cell phones (Japanese)
• December 25, 2002 - Neoteny Blogging Team mail2entry (attached image mail to MT tool) script released to public (tgz file of code)
• Wapblogger supports wap blogging for blog tools supporting XML-RPC Blogger API
• Nokia7650toWeb.sh - a script for posting Nokia 7650 pictures sent via GPRS
• NewBay FoneBlog - weblog publishing from phone
• PhoneBlogger - Audio Phone Blogging Tool
• MobiLog! - Free/Open Source moblogging tool.
• Moblog.biz
• PocketPC Moblog
• Hiplog - Danger's Hiptop Weblog
• BLOGPOST.PL
• KABLOG - J2ME Palm, Sprint PCS Phone, NexTel iDen, Rim Blackberry, Symbian, Brew 2.0 to MT via XMLRPC blog tool
• mail2blog script by Alex at slackerbit.ch which uses PGP signatures to authenticate sender
• Phonecam v.2 - Script to post images sent via email from Nokia 3650

Blogmapping

• BlogmapperTM
• GeoURL ICBM Address Server

Moblogmapping

• Sunday November 10, 2002 - Stuart Woodward posts GPS location from AU phone

Photo Blog Hosting

• Textamerica - Email or MMS photos to moblog, integrates flickr
• Fotolog - hosts photo weblogs
• Yapeus - Mail Photo Diary Site
• Hiplog - Danger's Hiptop Weblog
• Pholot.net - email or MMS photo moblog hosting
• Buzznet - includes friends and comments
• flickr - photos with tags
• UphoneBlog - MMS to your own Blog, mobile photos and videos in real time
• Essay Writing
• Web hosting
• Assignment
• Coursework
• Dissertation
• Thesis

Conferences

• 1IMC the first International Moblog Conference in Tokyo July 5 at Super-Deluxe in Roppongi