>> At 1imc there was some excitement regarding publishing moblogs which
>> include locational information. Moblogs owe their success in part to
> ^^^^^^^
> I doubt "success" yet, and would call it hype so far. Even the term
> "moblog" or "blog" is rather unknown in Japan (except in a specific
> scene of the usual suspects), while the Japanese diary scene is and was
> always huge and gets widely ignored (also from the usual suspects).
Very well put.
> The book I read right now (The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon) is pretty
> much a blog (in American terms), just that it was written about 980
> (that's a thousand years ago). Now show me an American blog that old :)
Given that blog stands for weblog, the comparison doesn't hold true.
Maybe it's a published diary... book log... blog... OK you got me :)
> I know that Sony was/is working on a project to actually include
> much more data to images...including complete HTML pages connected
> to parts of the image (image mapping). So for example you receive
> an image with 3 people on it, with a special browser you could
> see the date/time and location when/where it was taken (that's
> standard EXIF) but also background information about the people
> when you point your mouse on the specific person. Kinda like
> the web up-side-down and instead of images in HTML pages, HTML
> pages in images.
Sounds like a very intriguing research topic. But while it is great for
the viewer, it's very time-consuming for the publisher. The tagging
would have to be done manually, unlike GPS info. Even with a very
simplified interface, say you "draw" hotspots or an image map on an
image, then start writing about them or inserting URLs, it would take a
long time to do for a series of images. I noticed the same when
publishing photo albums via iPhoto, automatically using image names and
captions in iPhoto as text on the album page. Publishing takes two
minutes, writing the stuff half an hour. Plus there are privacy
implications; by sifting through a large enough number of published
photos I am sure you could collect a fair amount of information about
an individual by inference. But I still like the idea of tagging an
image like that anyhow...
Dirk
Received on Tue Jul 15 05:01:33 2003