Associated Press reporter Dan Nephin wanted to write a fun article about camera phones, and he used textamerica's Wish List moblog feature as his news peg. "Move over, letters to Santa. Even e-mailing the jolly one your holiday wants is becoming low-tech," writes Nephin in his December 12 article.
Nephin quotes Chris Hoar, founder of textamerica, as saying that about 100 people -- mostly adults have created Wish Lists. (I've got one, but it's no big deal. See below.)
One prolific moblogger, journalist Laura Burstein, has created a Wish List that includes liposuction and a size 34B chest. "I guess my mother had a saying, 'If you're going to wish for something, you better wish for something good," she says in the article.
Sweet versus commerce
Chris Byrne, a toy consultant and editor of The Toy Report, says in the article that the textamerica Wish Lists are "hilarious, if somewhat egocentric." Byrne says letters to Santa Claus certainly will remain.
He notes that the letters are "very sweet and imaginative" but the Wish Lists are "pure commerce."
I wrote about the Wish List feature almost a month ago. I'm quoted in Nephin's article as well as the article he wrote in November about camera phones and privacy.
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