The idea I'm exploring in this blog is using mobile devices as creative tools -- much the same way personal computers have tools for creative work in writing, visual arts, animation, video, and so on. In my previous post I talked about how mobile phones -- which are the most common mobile devices -- inherently foster mutual activities. These can be mutual creative activities, of course.
One interesting development is Qik video, a service for streaming video live from your phone. It works on the Nokia N95, but I'm not sure about others. Robert Scoble used it to stream interviews from the World Economic Forum in Davos. On Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech show he talked about how much of a difference it made that the video was live and had an audience that could participate by suggesting questions to ask.
That's a mutual creative activity if I ever saw one. I've been thinking about what it says about the line between "performer" and "audience". Everybody has an audience sometimes, even if seldom as big an audience as the Scobleizer enjoys. And you're in an audience a lot. Before the existence of "media"; for example in the days of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, when people went to hear a play, I think there was probably less distinction between being an artist and an audient.
The whole "mass media" thing -- like the "mass market" -- was probably an aberration produced by the mind-boggling weirdness of the last century. I think we're getting back to normal, but on the other side of whatever that was.
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