In recent months, my mental meanderings often lead me to speculate about the widespread adoption of location-based tools, the introduction of geo-tagging URLs to physical places, and their effect on that most human of art forms: storytelling. I try and picture the possible physiognomy of Narration Architecture; the form and structure of embedding stories across cities and landscapes.

On a semi-related theme, I've also been wondering how far the adoption of video and picture-phones, the shift to MMS and video-messaging, will affect our use and perception of language. Consider the impact texting (SMS) has had on grammar and spelling. Now think of a move towards to more pictorial, iconographic forms of communications induced by new messaging formats.

So it was interesting to come across the aware - spatio - temporal - moblog project (via Purse Lip Square Jaw). While the project is still in its infancy, the concept underpinning it is fascinating:

"The aware project proposes an experimental location-based medium for mediating fluid memory, 'story-making', and aims to facilitate the (playful or critical) re-imagination of the lived city of Helsinki.

It explores the positive potential of widespread use of networked, mobile media devices to raise awareness of communal relationships with place, and the real-time organisation/disorganisation of spatio-temporal meaning.

The project concept is to enable participants to contribute images, sounds and text via their mobile device to a collective online database, to be rebroadcast to the public environment of their origin, either anonymously or tagged with a user-name. However the contributions may be moved around to other cell locations in the city, re-interpreting their meaning and potential relationship to other forms and place."

Elsewhere, avant soap dubs itself a "moblog about soap operas in the near future". Again, its strength currently resides primarily in the concept and design. But its potential is apparent, bubbling away under every jpeg.

Far from conceptual frameworks, PhoneBin is the trash can of collective moblogging - a jumble of tits and bums and cars and beers and idiotic sneers - telling its own stories nevertheless.