Text – gets to the parts that cameraphones just can’t reach
There are places a cameraphone just cannot, umm, go. Places like the men’s toilets at King’s Cross Station. (Stay with me on this one.) There you’ll find a sticking plaster product design solution that...
View ArticleMobile blogging five years on (and off)
August 21, 2001. Newly armed with Nik Haldimann’s Wapblogger (2001-2005) on my trusty Nokia 7110i I bash out a record seven blog posts in one day. On the bus, in the lift, in the café, In just a few...
View Articlemo-blogging text-entry benchmark
i’m typing this on my phone, top deck of a bus travelling up chapeltown road. i reckon i can enter text at about a 10th the speed i think it. that works out about 30 words a mile on the number 3a bus....
View ArticleWhat we say versus what we see
So I know what you’re going to say, text isn’t the point of mobile blogging – it’s all about pictures, videos, media, capturing the moment and storing it up or sharing it out. Yes, I love taking...
View ArticleThe private life of a digital camera
Flickr etiquette is a tricky thing. For starters I have to pigeonhole the tangled web of people-with-whom-I-share-photos into “family”, “friends” and that wonderful catch-all “contacts” (maybe we...
View ArticleBlogging on the beach
… just because I can, and because it’s five years to the day since my first mobile clog [t9 sic] post. Equipment used: 1 Nokia 30something, running series 40, Opera Mini, 1 ladybird print beach tent...
View ArticleMobile video use case #3
So I’m on the train home after a day in London and my phone beeps. It’s a video message of Fabian riding his bike without stabilisers. “I don’t know who I’m most proud of,” I tell Caroline later, “him...
View ArticleDrafts folder amnesty
It’s been a busy year. I start posts and don’t finish them. Below are the working titles of some posts languishing in my drafts folder. Please vote for the one you’d most like me to finish. Take Our Poll
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