26/8  Podcasting, Mobcasting, PSPcasting, Streamcasting... and no convincing definitions yet

Category: Mobile Content    By editor at 20:56
It's always funny to read Russell after having had the same thoughts;)

Unfortunately the term "mobcasting" is as problematic as the term "moblogging" and I really dislike both*. First because there is this "double entendre" of "mob" for common people and second because there is this "double entendre" for the techies.

Personally I can only support a technical definition of mobcasting, being something analogue to podcasting for mobile phones with a memory chip. And I really have some problems with the wikipedia definition as it is extravagantly blurry by mixing social and technical characteristics in a very loose way.

As for moblogging on the other hand, I try to keep the "historical" definition which is sending email (or MMS) to a website. Whereas I call a wap, i-mode, partnerML-capable weblog a "mobile blog".

For some this may sound gratuitous, but I think we really need some clearcut definitions to understand about what we are really talking.

* And even more "Phlogs", "Vlogs" and other "Flogs". Please, don't play it too simple.