got blog?

Note that there is no particular reason for this photo. Or maybe there is, secretly. I just have read a lot lately about people getting into moblogging. So far it's mostly just photoblogs of common everyday things. The concept borders on obsessive: blogging on the go with a camera-enabled cell phone or palmtop PC, and the medium isn't very conducive to large text-based entries. Personally I don't care to see endless photos of food or people's friends or a shopping trip. Then again, you know what they say about pictures.

I have seen this story linked a few times in recent travels, which is about people who go to bookstores and take photos of magazines with their camera-enabled phones. Dubbed "digital shoplifting", some stores in Japan are beginning to take action against it. It seems innocent enough, but it is increasingly apparent that technology has blurred the lines of the traditional laws we have come to accept.