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title: "Intersection of Mobile and Web 2.0"
date: 2005-12-05
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2005"
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# Intersection of Mobile and Web 2.0

A couple of weeks ago [Charlie Schick posted](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog/2005/11/the_web_20_work.html) about the lack of mobile-focused bloggers in the [Web 2.0 Workgroup](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://web20workgroup.com/). Charlie wrote:

> “…from the list, I, of course, did not see a person focusing on mobility. I’m not surprised. Mobile might not need a special focus, but it sure should be part of the discussion.”

I replied in the comments that we’d love to have a mobile-focused blogger in the mix. In emails following we discussed who is blogging about the intersection of mobile and Web 2.0. [Charlie himself](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog/) blogs occasionally on this subject and he also pointed to Debi Jones’ [The Carnival of the Mobilists](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://www.mobilejones.com/keyword/Carnival+of+Mobilists) blog (great name!). The mobile sites I already know about are Howard Rheingold’s [SmartMobs](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://www.smartmobs.com/) and [Russell Beattie’s blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/). I’ve also got [Scott Rafer’s Mobile Chair](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://rafer.wirelessink.com/) and [Mobile Opportunity](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/) by Michael Mace (ex-Apple honcho) plugged into my [Rojo](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://www.rojo.com/).

What other mobile blogs do people recommend? As I wrote recently [on ZDNet](https://web.archive.org/web/20051208021713/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=69), I think mobile is the next ‘revolution’ cab off the ranks in the Web industry. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be talking more *now* about how 2.0 technologies and mobile are intersecting – for example location and presence services that utilize things like RSS and social networking. What’s being built now in mobile that we in Web 2.0-land should be talking about more? Who’s blogging about it? Who’s building it?

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/intersection_of.php))*