Mobile blogging for tourists

Mobile users of the internet outnumbered wired users of the internet in Japan in 2005. They also accessed the web more frequently — mainly for emails and surfing — and 8.7 million of them were mobile bloggers.

Mobile-only users: 13.6 million
Wired-only users: 11.4 million
Mobile+Wired users: 48.6 million

In the UK, the Register recently reported that T-mobile’s Web and Walk users will be capped at £1 per day, with certain restrictions. Will we see a Japanese-style migration to mobile use and moblogging?

As far as tourists are concerned, initial moblog design experiments in Finland have shown mixed reviews. New Zealand surveys show that tourists want “… ways to collect their ideas and send the gathered information to others (online)”. Community-based tourist blogs have been setup. Even the ethics of a tourist blog is discussed by Florida’s Josh Hallett and Seattle’s Matt Rosenberg.

Are you interested in tourist/tourism blogging? See FAQs, some blog resources, and a listing of some travel resources blogs.

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