April 12, 2004

It's a blog new world
Posted by deisenhart@bostonworks.com">Douglas Eisenhart at 4:21 PM -

Well, we may think we're pretty cool and cutting edge here in the BostonWorks Job Blog, but if we don't watch it we're in danger of becoming obsolete. John Mello's Personal Tech column from today's Globe explores some of the fresh territory opened up by new blogging tools and features, including wireless and photo-based blogs:

Moblogging [mobile blogging] allows bloggers to add postings to their blog sites from almost anywhere at any time, using a cellphone, RIM Blackberry, or wireless handheld computer.
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Camera phones have given a whole new dimension to moblogging and rise to a new kind of blogging site that caters to images rather than words.

We can connect the dots (pixels?) between Mello's story and another one published by BostonWorks yesterday, how, with the proliferation of camera phones, employers are wary of potential abuses in the workplace. Imagine taking a clandestine photo at work, then putting it on the web via blog self-publishing technology, for the world to see, in minutes. Maybe it's not such a pretty picture.

Tomorrow morning all will be made crystal clear by none other than BostonWorks' blogging guru Jason Butler at a special panel on online job tools (sorry, closed session). It is indeed a blog new world.

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