May 25, 2004
Moblogs : The Map of Time
*Julian Gallo posts a wonderful essay comparing moblogs and traditional photo albums, based on his own experience of sending 6 to 7 photos per day to Textamerica, for the last 10 months.
He says "I realized that I am making neither an album nor a web log, not even a moblog; I am making a map".
Gally points out that unlike traditional family photo albums, where photographs are organized within the albums - thus constructing a carefully taylored narrative of a family's history, moblogs store images in a forced chronological order, not allowing for any regrouping or filtering. "Photos cease to be seen individually and become a true “family” of images, a photo follows another, that is the sister of the next one and so on. Sequence links the pictures, not their subject". Offering a more accurate timeline in the family's history".
Some Gallo family stats
"We used to take around 300 family photos each year before the telephones with cameras, now I take that number in 6 weeks".
If I keep up this rate of photographing (6.5 family photos per day) I will have 2372 in a year. Strictly placed one after the other.
If I decided to print all those photos in a 10x15 format costing $0.75 (in any currency) I would have to spend $1779.00.
I would need sixty eight 36-photo albums of each, or twenty three 100-photo albums that would take most of my library.
If lined up, these photos would be over 14 miles long. Just in a year.
*Julian Gallo is Professor of New Media in the joint Master's program of Journalism of the San Andrés University, Columbia University and the Clarín news group.
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