Moblog is a portmanteau of mobile and weblog. A mobile weblog, or moblog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile or portable device, such as a cellular phone or PDA. Moblogs generally involve technology which allowed publishing from a mobile device. Much of the earliest development of moblogs occurred in Japan, among the first countries in the world where camera phones (portable phones with built-in cameras) were widely commercially available. According to Joi Ito's History of Moblogs, the first post to the web from a mobile user was from Steve Mann in 1995.
He used a wearable computer, a more elaborate predecessor to modern moblogging devices. The first post to the Internet from a an ordinary mobile device was previously belived to be by Stuart Woodward, who posted by email from a mobile phone in January 2001, however it was done earlier in May 2000 by Tom Vilmer Paamand in Denmark. The term "moblogging" itself was coined by Adam Greenfield to describe the practice in 2002. The term is sometimes pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable - MOBlog - out of affinity with the ideas about social self-organization developed in Howard Rheingold's "Smart Mobs". Weblogs made from portable devices are also sometimes known as cyborglogs, abbreviated as 'glogs, especially when primarily image-based.
