Mobility and Blogging [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Dan points to an interesting article by Justin Hall on The Feature, about what happens when blogs really go mobile. This is a question I'm thinking about now that I have a WAPped and GPRSed PocketPC that means one way or another I could email back to my blog from just about anywhere (except the US, of course, since it is the one place not on the mobile standard used everywhere else!! Boy, does that increasingly annoy me -- even out in the bush in South Africa I could use my mobile -- indeed, got a better signal than in most of rural Ireland).

I think Justin Hall is right -- something new in blogs will emerge as people do more than simply blog conferences that offer them wireless access (say after me: G...P...R...S... and...3...G... Or maybe WiFi will evolve faster, to answer this opportunity). Bernie already files to his blog from out and about Ireland (most often from cafes and pubs, which tells you a lot about Bernie... [grin]) using a Nokia Communicator phone, as you can see on his blog. I'm excited about what this little mobile XDA might enable me to do. The best part is that it frees me from the bulk and weight of a laptop. Also it is just plain darn fun. I figured out how to convert a song to .wav then sample it, then move it to the ringtone file. So my ringtone is now the well known opening notes of California Girls. So if you hear an oddly muffled version of that song coming from a handbag I'm probably somewhere nearby...