Mobile blogging — and why you might do it
Why post to a blog from a BlackBerry? Dave Winer gives several reasons, including this example:
Jackie Danicki writes that she blogged “from the Vatican during New Year’s Eve Mass, with the Pope a few feet in front of me.”
He adds, “You could also blog during a disaster like a hurricane or after an earthquake.”
Perhaps you don’t realize it, but when the Internet connection in your home or office goes down, the Internet connection on a mobile phone might still be working fine. Kaye Trammell blogged from her BlackBerry in her apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, throughout Hurricane Katrina last year. Kaye, a University of Florida alumna and now a professor at the University of Georgia, was a professor at Louisiana State University at that time.
Kaye started her “hurricane blog” on Aug. 28, 2005. She lost power the next morning. She continued to post frequent reports throughout the day. When the BlackBerry needed to be recharged, she went to her car (the worst of the storm was over).
This has implications for reporters in the field, of course. When Kaye couldn’t receive voice calls on her phone, she could still send and receive text messages, as well as post to her Blogger blog.
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