Black Eyed Peas are mob video blogging

Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 at 7:39pm in Blogging  | 

Right, let me get this straight. If someone is recording video from their mobile phone to a blog this is mob video blogging? Well, if there isn’t a term for it yet, I’ve just coined one.

The Black Eyed Peas are MVBing to their website. It says: “The Black Eyed Peas Video Diary is a unique online event. During the European tour from December 1st up until December 21st, all of the Peas will be equipped with 3G mobile video phones. With these phones the Peas can make video calls to blackeyedpeas.com where their footage is published. The footage is shot with mobile phones, so the quality may vary. One thing is sure, you’re about experience an uncut, exclusive trip behind the scenes of the European tour.”

The place where the videos are published is hardly a blog - there’s no RSS, but it does allow comments. Only last week I blogged on how North East band, Maximo Park, were allowing fans to send in photographs of the band from cameraphones to their moblog.

Are we starting to see new ways in which bands are interacting with their fans? My prediction is, we’re going to see a lot more of this. As technical advancements in gadgets like mobile phones continues to increase, we’ll see ways in which music acts can be brought a little closer to their fans.

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