Monday 22 November 2010

Still stuck on the idea of blogging in the Articulated Naturality Web

What the ANW offers is advantages of location information and timeliness
of information as well as increased relevance and usability. It's easy
to perceive the geo-tagged review as a sort of AN blogging but I wonder
what else will develop.

With mobile blogging there are more opportunities for geo-tagged blog
posts, for example after a good or bad experience at a shop. But this
still fits the review-type blog post.

Many bloggers still blog at home and many still find blogs by online
searches unrelated to location.

Perhaps AN blogs might replace the tour guide. Someone walking out into
Tienanmen Square in China may be able to go around without a tour guide
just using their phone to guide them and geo-tagged blog posts to tell
them the history of the area. A single blogger may be the best at this
so people could follow their post around or they may prefer a app-driven
or even a random path around the square. Translation services should be
significantly better and hopefully integrated into ANW browsers just as
Google Translate is integrated into the search engine. This provides the
naturality aspect of AN.

Product review-type blogs are less suitable for geo-tagging but can
still be used based on relevance. RedLaser already provides a basic
interface that allows people to scan barcodes and can potentially link
to suitable blog reviews.

Celebrity blogs make take on a new avenue with venues having posts
written by the celebrities who go there available in the ANW. This
provides an incentive for fans to visit certain places and for venues to
attract celebrities. I'm not sure how this would work in practice
though. I think celebs don't want people to know there every move and
what their favourite haunts are. More likely venues might pay celebs to
blog for them so they can pretend they've had them in there.

Perhaps some bloggers might be interested to geotag their posts at the
location they thought of the idea. I'm not sure if their regular
followers would be interested but perhaps casual passers by who are
stuck waiting for a bus or train might be able to read things posted in
stations to pass the time. This could create a new sort of blogger - the
journalist who catches the same train as you.

It's not really a blog but people can also leave messages for each other
in the ANW blogosphere space.

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