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Most of the blogs I frequently visit online which belongs to Malaysians are technological, fashionable, personal, and automotive as I rarely visit blogs that are political due to the country unrest on bloggers who share their mind, I personally have stopped blogging because of the government’s pursuit into grabbing bloggers who speak their mind about subject matters because it is either their way or the highway.


Imgae taken from (google.com/search)

Technology has given mobility to bloggers snapping pictures from your mobile and then sharing them in the web (via: facebook, blogger, etc). These kinds of instant posting are constructed and updated right from the field with the help of a mobile device has become known as moblogs and the practice of producing one is called moblogging. The concept of “Moblog” was first introduced by Justin Hall (2002) and Adam Greenfield in 2002, and as the times pass is has since then changed to wireless blog, visual blog and others such as photo blogging has been introduced and coined. They all refer to a special kind of visualized blogging adding photos and more visuals via mobile like example 1.1 shows.




Image 1.1 (taken from google.com/pictures)



Moblogs can be categorized into either private/personal with one single author or collective with many authors who contribute to one moblog by sending their own pictures and adding text entries. The content of the moblog is by and large picture-based, although photos may be accompanied with text that may be either short descriptions or longer histories and narratives according to Doring And Gundolf (2005).

Reference List

Hall, Justin (2002) From Weblog to Moblog. TheFeature Archives. Thu Nov 21 2002. Electronic version. Retrieved Jan 10, 2007.

[URL:http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/topic/Media/From_Weblog_to_Moblog.html]

Döring, Nicola & Gundolf, Axel (2005) Your life in snapshots: Mobile weblogs (moblogs). In Peter Glotz, Stefan Bertschi,& Chris Locke (eds.) Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.