Moblogging is defined (your mileage may vary as to the interpretation) at wikipedia.
Moblogged postings are sometimes in what I like to call mobloggerese - it’s the shorthand style that you might use when taking notes at a conference. Some people do just that - moblog at conferences - it is a great way to get future use out of the notes. There is a good example of mobloggerese on Dan Saffer’s blog.
Mobloggerese is an efficient way of getting aides-de-memoire down in a hurry - the comments can then be indexed, searched, and are available to all who want them. They are great in context - where the original author is available and able to remember enough of the other stuff around the notes so that they can be fleshed out. Using storytelling to implicetise the tacit.
A couple of us are working on a client project at the moment that supports a government committee process - where the collection and contextualisation of a mobloggerese-analogue (phew, what a mouthful!) might be vital to making the whole process run stronger/better/faster. I am not sure that we can use available contextualisation software (apart from auto-categorisation on contextual keyword match, because it is a limited knowledge domain) to fully flesh out the notes and turn them into something of wider use. We could take the slack path in the interim (attach notes to documents, index the notes as addenda to the documents) - this might even fully fulfil the client need. Stay tuned.
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