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Moblog is a portmanteau of mobile and weblog. A mobile weblog, or moblog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile or portable device, such as a cellular phone or PDA. Moblogs generally involve technology which allows publishing from a mobile device.
Much of the earliest development of moblogs occurred in Japan, among the first countries in the world where camera phones (portable phones with built-in cameras) were widely commercially available.
According to Joi Ito's History of Moblogs, the first post to the web from a mobile user was from Steve Mann in 1995. He used a wearable computer, a more elaborate predecessor to modern moblogging devices. The first post to the Internet from a an ordinary mobile device was previously belived to be by Stuart Woodward, who posted by email from a mobile phone in January 2001, however it was done earlier in May 2000 by Tom Vilmer (http://tom.paamand.dk/moblog.htm) Paamand in Denmark.
The term "moblogging" itself was coined by Adam Greenfield to describe the practice in 2002.
The term is sometimes pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable - MOBlog - out of affinity with the ideas about social self-organization developed in Howard Rheingold's "Smart Mobs".
Weblogs made from portable devices are also sometimes known as cyborglogs, abbreviated as 'glogs, especially when primarily image-based.
World's First National Moblog
In 2004, on Singapore's national day, a national Moblog was launched. Apparently, it's the first national moblog in the world.
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