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