Sunday, June 14, 2009

Rise of the Mobile Video Blog

(source: smartdevicefreeware.com)

Mobile Video Blog can be defined as video blogging using a mobile device. The article discussed by Simmons (2008) stated that, "since the marriage of webcams and broadband, the videoblog has become a familiar sight.". However, these days people seemed to be leaving the webcams behind and start video blogging with mobile phones. Mobile video blogging is essentially easier because it is faster and more convenient, at anywhere and anytime.


Live Broadcast!

Advanced mobile phones such as the LG's Viewty, Nokia N95 and Motorola Z10 include features such as video editing and audio mixing. Mobile bloggers can send their videos straight to the web after blogging and touching up the editing parts. Mobile video blog can be transformed into many different kinds of multimodality. Walsh (2006) defined multimodal texts as synchronisation of modes which are written or spoken language, still or moving images, they may be produced on paper or electronic screen and may incorporate music and sound. Mobile video blogging includes modes such as moving images and with spoken languages or without through mobile devices.


Hence, mobile bloggers can send videos straight to the scene using MMS for smaller clips that are lesser than 30 seconds. For longer clips, mobile bloggers can eventually attach their videos to mobile e-mail service provider. Live broadcast or direct streaming is another activity in mobile video blogging. Simmons (2008) describes that once an application is downloaded, it is pretty simple to "go live". In another story, Hans Cronberg, Chief Technical Officer of Play Mobile in Poland describes that "videoblog is a new service, enabling Play subcribers with YouTube account to upload movie clips by making a 3G video phone call" (Wind Mobile).

(source: Wind Mobile)



My personal opinion:

Blogging has becoming a daily life activity to most bloggers. Active bloggers blog daily to satisfy their readers. Some bloggers even took up blogging as a job in which they earn profits from it. With that, I strongly agree that mobile video blogging is a great idea for bloggers who blogs at anywhere and anytime. Trafford (2005) implies, "there are existing patterns of activity that ought to be very amendable to blogging, such as habit of Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging which can be any place, any time. Hence, in order to best realise working off site, the blogging was made mobile."

(source:Digital Tech News)

References:

  • Walsh, M 2006, 'The 'textual shift': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, No.1, pp.24-37.
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