Vanity Ring Tones
For the past few years I have resisted cell phones. In most other ways I am wired; I check email with heartbeat regularity, and surf my share of the Internet. But cell phones lead to constant, banal conversations: "We're leaving the restaurant now!" Or: "Hi, here I am at the store!"
I used to like being unreachable - in more ways than one. But my woman lured me into the modern age. This was done by giving me a new phone with cool features, including a camera. Here's me, looking ill-tempered, riding an elevator:

Howard Rheingold makes a lot of fancy talk about mobile ecologies, and the citizen journalism that becomes possible when people can, for example, send pictures directly from cell phones to weblogs. This is all very thought-provoking and high minded. But in keeping with tradition, the first use of any new technology, and the corresponding public debate, often involves naked ladies.
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