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I’ve got something new on the jotsheet for you today: mobojot. It’s a silly little moblog where I’ll be posting snippets of thoughts and snarky little observations (as opposed to the gorgeous articles here on the normal jotsheet). Since the jotsheet has evolved over time into a blog of articles rather than random thoughts (as it used to be), I plan to use the mobojot to recreate a little bit of useless spontaneity that used to be here.

If you’re in that large, blissfully ignorant majority of the population that has no idea what the hell a moblog is, have no fear. Your ignorance is a good thing, because moblogs are stupid. A moblog is just a word for a blog that can be posted to via e-mail. The mobojot will allow me to write via SMS e-mail from my phone or with a quick e-mail from Microsoft Outlook when I’m bored in a meeting at work. (Yeah, I’m sneaky.)

So if you’re keeping score at home, that means that moblogs:

• Approximate the insight and length of instant messages,
• Were a trendy and nerdcool thing to do back in 2003… but I missed the boat, and
• Will contribute even more to my time-wasting.

Score one for technology.

Also, in case you’re wondering, I used a script called MEOW, and I can heartily recommend it over the others out there, provided that you only want to post text and not pictures. (I don’t have a camera phone. I do have some self-respect.) MEOW separates itself from other moblogging scripts in that it actually has documentation.

If you’d like to make a comment on a mobojot entry, do it at the mobojot comments page.

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