"Show me your blog, and I will tell you who you are."

I wrote that line last week in a small essay about why I'm a blogger. Today I've read a BloggerCon topic about moblogging, and how it's so different from blogging itself. It is. I agree. Moblogging is a special way of connecting your daily life with your online presence. That's why I got reminded at the line above.

Instead of writing about what you do everyday, or what you think of things that happen in your life of in the world, you're able to show the world what you are doing. By posting pictures of things you do during the day, people will actually be with you wherever you go. They can look at what's around you, they can see people you meet, they can follow your every move. If you let them to.

With a moblog, you can create and expand a personal profile online. Together with a regular blog, it will give readers an exact image of your life and living.

Or will it? How long can someone keep up with constantly taking pictures, writing small notes, maybe even recording sound and/or video, while being busy doing daily things? A lot of regular blogs get abandoned after a few days. Maybe the blogger got bored, maybe keeping a blog didn't turn out to be as fun as the blogger thought it would be. Or, maybe, maintaining the blog turned out to be very hard. In most cases, I think that's what happened.

I think that moblogging can be fun, for a while. But can you spend your life, recording everything and putting it onlne? I don't think so. I would get tired of doing it after a while.

Does your moblog tell you who you are? It does, but only for a while. After that, you'll have to start writing about your life again, for the fun of moblogging will fade away.