Japanese perspective on Moblogging

My pal Yuichi "Jnutella" Kawasaki has written a great piece on Moblogging for Hotwired Japan. The mechanical translation is a little stilted, but still fascinating.

And a web log is also a development way still more.
I think that it is Japan where the cellular phone which the thing with a high possibility that a web log will increase rapidly from now on high-performance-ized spreads. Although it is the usage that news flash nature is also a very important element, summarizes its idea immediately and attaches notes to the phenomenon which has occurred now, in a web log, the optimal tool for this is a cellular phone.

The cellular phone is high-performance-ized at frightful speed. The data which mail, a browser, a camera, and a video function take lessons from a device, and goes back and forth in connection with it has changed from the text to video from an image and an image. The cellular phone with a camera added the function "cutting off a scene and appending high-density information as contents" to the feature of mail of telling feeling and a thought. By these highly efficient-ization, it can be said that the cellular phone evolved into 'the terminal which makes rich contents'.

Link (Japanese)

Link (English)

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(Thanks, Yuichi!)