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Best (photo) blog ever

Penelope Patsuris on Forbes.com brings the burgeoning world of photoblogging to the attention of the masses, however prematurely:

“These days, people are almost as likely to have their digital camera or camera phone on them as they are their wallet and keys, which is what accounts for the recent explosion of photo blogs. Photo blogs are the visual equivalent of the Web logs where self-publishers, both famous and obscure, post their opinions for the world to read. Unlike text blogs, photo blogs literally give visitors a glimpse into a blogger’s world. As you might expect, this is often not very interesting. “

Her list seems to be missing some of the favorites I’m familiar from Bitsplitter’s research in mobile blogging, like textamerica and picturephoning.com.
Nevertheless, it’s an interesting collection - showcasing people who have integrated the media in with their blogs, rather than those who are just experimenting.

Cynically, I have to wonder how accurate her assessment of photoblogging’s usefulness for the average blogger (as different from the rest of the population as they may tend to be). This is especially true given how cumbersome the interfaces still are, and how many must resort to emailing photos as attachments to get them out of their provider’s network.

The statistics discussed on Bitflux provide a less encouraging picture, citing research reports that Japanese consumers have 15M camera phones, yet sent only 45M photos over the air. 3 per camera is probably a far away goal for US providers.

Though, just for fun, it’s worth noting the slightly tongue-in-cheek but perhaps still relevant report from TheRegister that 75% of Polish blogs are from teenagers. When mixed with the findings that 62% of them are women, we get the sensational headline that (in Poland) most bloggers are teenaged girls.

Perhaps it’s different here though, where most of the blogs I run across are produced by guys.

Sources: Forbes’ Best Photo Blogs, Bitsplitter’s work in Mobile Computing, textamerica and picturephoning.com, Bitflux’s Mobile: Europe vs. Japan,
The Register’s
Most bloggers ‘are teenage girls’ - survey