Moblogging is the future; wikis and blogs are so yesterday. That, at least, is the world according to Bryan Alexander, codirector of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College in Vermont. In an interview with Howard Rheingold, Alexander calls this emerging communication style “m-learning” (m for mobile).

Alexander prefers “mobile” to “wireless” or “ubiquitous” because “none of these terms really grasp one key feature of the new milieu: the modeling of subjects as creative, communicative participants rather than as passive, reception-only consumers. We lack a term for describing the world as a writeable and readable service, encompassing mobile phones forming communities, P2P handheld gaming, moblogging, and uploading to RFID chips. For now, and to retain the educational focus, I?ll use m-learning.”