Rheingold Preaches Mob-Logging

drjparker writes "Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs and The Virtual Community among other works has an article in the Online Journalism Review in which he ponders the effects of video over cell phones and adding video to blogs on the future of journalism. The article is titled Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism."

Comments

Re:The future is here

[Lane.exe]

You haven't been here long, have you?

Moblogs

[Surak]

Moblogs: Complete with popups that will make you an offer you CAN'T refuse!

Mobile Porn

[felonious]

I'm sorry but all I see is a new era/avenue in the world of porn. Now you can call the 1-800 #'s and view some skank(tm) showing you her goods in public. This could be true voyeurism. You could call a 1-800# and tell the skank(tm) what to do. I would tell the skank(tm) to undress and jump the first homeless guy she sees but make sure to keep the phone on the action.
1-800-phn-sknk
I'm sure the live phone cam upskirt cams are coming too. I bet they'll be tied to websites with a meta refresh of 2 seconds or less as an attempt to make it a poor man's video.
I wonder how advertisers will exploit this?

Re:Mobile Porn

[Otter]

You know, after a zillion commercials explaining why I need a phone with a a camera (Catherine Zeta-Jones: "What if you suddenly find yourself playing volleyball with bikini models and you call your friends and they don't believe you?") I still couldn't imagine why anyone would want one.

Until a few days ago when a guy was pointing his phone at the firm, round, barely-miniskirted butt of a Jennifer Lopez clone walking by while yelling, "Ya see that? Ya see that?"

Moblogged Slashdot?

[creative_name]

Does this mean we'll soon have to watch video clips of the editors posting stories or chrisd pondering the next poll?

Better still, does this mean that we'll soon be able to immerse ourselves in 24/7, live CowboyNeal?

Rheingold?

[sulli]

I for one can't wait for the Götterdammerung that will result from this one.

Whoo-hoo!

[ambisinistral]

I can't wait to see a picture, snapped with their mobile phone, of the overpriced Starbuck's crapachino they just ordered. That'll be sweet!

Yup, thing just keep getting better... now we get to see pictures from peoples' monotonous lives as well as reading their whining. Don't the future sound grand?

Phreky

[jabbadabbadoo]

I see a new "profession" coming out of this telco/it combo: phreakers doing hacking.

I propose calling'em "phrakers".

Re:maybe hes right

[Surak]

Um, Slashdot with videos? Can you imagine the bandwidth usage? The storage requirements? The videos of the Goatse guy spreading his cheeks?

Re:Mob-Logging?

[Tetsujin28]

That's right. Mob-Logging.

Everyone's /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages gets written to every other machine on the 'net.

Or maybe he wants huge masses of people to gather spontaneously to chop down trees?

Re:Please

[lamp540]

I agree. Rheingold is way too old to have anything relevant to say about new technology. He should go play shuffleboard somewhere.