Multimedia Moblogging. The moment I heard of Howard Rheingold’s concept of ‘Smart Mobs’ I immediately had this vision of ‘Tools for the Mobs’. Joi - at the time - was talking allot about posting blogs from cell phones, but it delights me to see he’s taken that notion further to (what I believe is) a logical extension of an end-users digital identity.
That notion includes ‘private clouds’ of family members, friends or colleagues - who have permission to be part of your ‘inner circle’ - which just happen to coincide with the legal limits of ‘Fair Use’. These private clouds are the folks who care about whether or not you’re on the toilet or how much cash you’ve got in your pocket. They also (in my opinion) are the ones who have the RIGHT to share your music, fav TV shows, movies or books you’re reading.
Joi’s vision has folks’ status, location, state - an intricate part of how and why they communicate and blog. By enhancing blogging tools with templates and structure so that new types of ‘micro-content’ can be posted, interchanged and interacted with - these new kind of tools can form the mesh between on-line information, communication and real space. [Smart Mobs]
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