Live from Kurihama

Nob Seki who I met at the International Moblogging Conference writes about the accuracy of the Japanese GPS data and maps in Japan.

This must be the best source of links GeoInfo on the web.

International Moblogging Conference

“At 15.15, we’re pleased to invite pioneer mobloggers Mie Kennedy, Carsten Schwesig and Stuart Woodward to discuss their experiences as EARLIEST ADOPTERS, in a roundtable moderated by journalist and primordial blogger Justin Hall.”

Well here I am sitting on the loo at home with my newly installed wireless lan. I’ve been tinkering with settings. Thank goodness that the AirStation’s UI is billingual Japanese and English. I’m not really sure what all the settings mean yet but that’s great. It’s like a new toy a Christmas that holds your attention until you figure out all the things it can do.

Anyway, here I am about to finish up and suddenly the attack warning box pops up and tells me that I am undergoing a TCP SYN FLOOD from 69.42.65.2 which when tracert’d looks like it is a wireless network in JFK New York. C’mon leave a man alone when he’s on the loo.

I suspect that I’m going to turn that warning off soon…

Aapo Laakkonen wrote In fact the term moblog has been there for quite a while now. I have even written a moblog software in the past.

Yep. Me too! I posted my first moblog message on January 4th 2001 but I *think* Adam Greenfield coined the term Moblog on the November 5th 2002.

If any one has verifiable earlier dates than these I would love to hear from them so we can get the Moblogging Resources page chronology section updated with the right info.

It drives me nuts to hear people talk about Moblogging as if it is something new. Many of us were doing it for a couple of years as a natural progression from blogging before the press even heard of it.

Before I lose it again here are the links to downloadable files of place names and coordinates in many countries.
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I have been thinking a lot recently about location notation for moblogging. I would like to be able to leave public and private notes to people that are tied to locations.
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