here are the notes from the panel i was on at seybold for some stupid reason, they are keeping the slides to themselves behind a password:
why i blog?
– first note taking
– short attention span
– exotic hobby, no one i knew personally was doing it
– more and more interaction with others
– serendipity is my big thing now
– got more and more interested in blog infrastructure
– not what is obvious (posts), but what is harder to see: interactions, patterns,
– immediacy is important
– “i was there”
– discovery of context, very local
– led to more mobile uses of blog.
– a picture has higher emotional quality
– who cares about pictures once you are home
my tool
– kaywa: focusing on the swiss market where picture phones and mobile us e is big. not too many weblogs yet
– we are php guys with a strong interest in xml
– we were not happy with the usability of existing tools, although mt comes close
– we want to make it easy to publish from your mobile
– pictures integrated
– involved with internet art
– very picture-driven -> perfect use of moblog
– lower barrier to entry
– strikes me as a very consumer thing, taking pictures & uploading them.
– interest from realtors, doctors