Moblogging

Friday March 02, 2007
Keeping Up With the Blogging Joneses

The Wall Street Journal has a free feature today on live blogging, entitled "The Minutes of Our Lives."

It explains that people are "increasingly documenting the most mundane and private aspects of their lives and posting them the instant they happen."

So, I thought I'd give it a shot:

1:35 PM: I just had a salad for lunch.

1:40 PM: I had to use the facilities.

1:45 PM: I'm sitting here in my home office, reading this free Wall Street Journal article about liveblogging, wondering if I should live blog.

1:49 PM: I've started live blogging, but realizing that if I continue to live blog, I'm not going to be able to get any real work done and could shortly find myself blogging about not having anything work-related to blog about because I'll no longer be gainfully employed.

1:50: I'm about to stop live blogging and just think about blogging instead.

I think we all just need to get a life.

What's next, moblogging with your Crackberry on the 17th green?

"Yeah, this is Turbo on the 17th green at Riverside...my putt looks like it's got about a 9 degree incline to the left...definitely headed with the grain down towards the water...Oh, look, there's the nice cart person...yes, could I have a hot dog and a coke, please?...Okay, this one's for all the skins..."

Yeah, right.

It's too much information, people. Pretty soon we'll all be so busy documenting and blogging what we're doing, that we simply won't be doing anything anymore.

And speaking of information overabundance, check out Read/Write Web on an overview of the "Attention Economy" (Shouldn't that read "Attention Deficit Economy?")

Their verdict? First, do I have your full attention?

The rapid growth of information causes scarcity of attention, so therefore the key ingredient is relevancy.

If what you're offering to the consumer in the way of information is relevant, they'll stick around.

I would generally agree.

But I have to tell the Read/Write Web folks, I have a whole RSS reader full of relevant information that I haven't had time to read in days.

So, I think I'll go blog about how much time I don't have to read all the personalized and relevant information that's now all constipated in my Feed Demon.

And yes, I'll also mention what I'm having for dinner.