Meet Hotwire (in photo above). It’s my super hero identity as created by my comic-book-loving boyfriend.Yes, Mark has been working on a little blog of his own, The Mighty Markmen. He’s created a team of super heroes (and villians) to represent real-life friends. Because playing City of Heroes an already questionable amount was not enough, he also uses the character-creation engine to create models for these super heroes he comes up with. He takes screenshots of them in their fancy poses, and comes up with little bios for each character. He links each character’s name to a real-life photo (in my photo journal) so everyone can see who each hero was made to represent.

And you thought I was the only nerdy one! Where Mark lacks my tech nerdiness, he makes up for with his comic books. :) But seriously… who doesn’t like super heroes?

Anyhow, go check out his blog and leave him a comment on your favorite hero.

Play: Ryanne - narcissism: this is a document
Someone emailed me once, asking me if I thought I was going to far with my moblog… if I was overexposing myself. Up until that point, I had never really thought of it that way; I found mobile photos to be just a creative way of expressing life around me - a journal for myself, and for my friends & family.

A couple years ago, when I started moblogging (photo blogging from a phone or any mobile device), having a site like that was more unique than it is today. People love sharing, entertaining, and building communities online nowadays more than ever.

To me, vlogging (video blogging) takes ones “real life” and puts it even closer to the “online life” many people have already started making for themselves (friendster, orkut, blogs, forums, dating sites, etc). For bloggers or forum contributors that post more demonstrative information, this kind of medium is incredible. For bloggers that are artists in the creative industry, it’s alluring and challenging. For bloggers that are reporters, it’s about the best coverage you can give, and can still be update live from the road.

Ryanne is the vlogger that first held my attention, and got me started thinking about vlogs. I got a kick out of just how comfortable she felt recording and sharing things online.. some personal, some instructive, and all entertaining. And since, she’s really gotten into it. She’s part of freevlog.org, a site that tells how you can set up your own video blog easily, quickly, and best of all - for free. Ryanne has also helped create Node 101, a in-person meetingplace that helps interested people learn how to go about setting up video blogs for their own purposes. Browsing from her blogroll onto others and beyond, I’ve come across some pretty interesting characters posting you-name-it on video online. I think it’s pretty cool.

Kudos to Ryanne and her posse for blazing a trail in how we share our thoughts online, and helping them do so.

Maybe I’ll start dabbling in video.