Why Moblog?

In the Philippines, moblog or moblogging are provided by the leading mobile network providers such as Globe and Smart Telecoms. There is an estimated of 40 million mobile phone users to date out of estimated population of 80 million Filipinos.

As of this time, there are 41,144 moblogs registered to G-blogs. I doubt if all of them are active in mobile blogging since there are many bloggers stopped updating their blogs, including me and some bloggers I know. Why?

There are many reasons why people blog, there are many kinds of bloggers as well. I blog because it was sort of my daily diary, rambling about anything I observed and experienced from my daily life. It was sort of an outlet from my stressful life. Until I got interested on mobile ebooks. I’ve learned, shared and moblog about mobile ebooks. There were times that I became feature blogger. Traffic! That time, I don’t care about traffic simply because I don’t want to get noticed by moblog hackers. My moblog had been hacked many times by hackers who wanted to be popular. I’ve emailed my network provider, requested not to feature my blog anymore citing my reasons.

After three years of regular moblogging, I woke up one morning feeling tired and exhausted of moblog. What do I get from moblog? Lots of friends and the good feeling that I’ve helped unselfishly. But I’m not contented with my network provider’s services. There are still many rooms for their improvement and I can’t stay waiting for such.

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pao says:

November 25, 2007 at 11:20 pm

i tried globe’s moblog before and found the layout and the way they implement image uploads… well, butt ugly. have they changed that yet? :-/ i’m currently using a wordpress plugin that supports mobile blogging. if only the telecoms will get their act together on this, they’ll find a big market for mobloggers and other online services. especially with 3G phones getting cheaper.

They’re worst than ever. Image upload is expensive compared to smart telecoms. Just this week, they’ve implement the browsing charges within myglobe sites that used to be free before (gaya-gaya sa smart). They should realize that and look for a better developer for moblog.

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