9:10 -- I'm in a train to Daejeon. As you can guess, there's no Internet connection so this will be posted later. Yet I'd like to capture my current thoughts. I'm a bit freaked out since everybody is coughing in the car I was supposed to seat. I've moved after 5 minutes. I feel paranoid with SARS although Korea has no declared cases. Nevertheless I feel very uncomfortable.

To continue this train of thought, moblogging is a very efficient tool to broadcast your feelings of the moment. You don't really think twice, you write and you post. Also, the format and style of the blog will pretty much depend of the tool used e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop. Few times, when I was walking around I wanted to take picture, add some text and post it immediately. I feel that moblogging will be much more visual than weblogging. Moblogging is not about telling a structured story, it's telling a story with snapshots and fragments of thoughts. I clearly see me, moblogging during the day, and then weblogging in the evening to explain and comment my moblog. It will be interesting to see how weblog and moblog will cohabit on the same webpage/site. I'm now eager to visit a GSM country and try the same experience only with my Nokia 7650.

To go back to my journey, the landscape is "interesting". It's a mix of hills and fields, and ugly constructions (highways, housing, warehouse, etc.). For some reasons, these 10-storey housing blocks remind me of Cuba. Everything looks very artificial, and quickly built to accommodate the (factory) workers. I am saying that because each building has a number and a company logo painted on the side.

Well time goes by, and I'm almost in Daejeon.

22:20 -- I'm back from Daejeon. I had a great day at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). The department of Industrial design is doing amazing things (http://id.kaist.ac.kr). I've met with a lot of professors and had a short talk with the student about Nokia and interaction design. Later I went with Tek-Jin Nam (Assistant professor and my host there) for some Korean food I can't spell! See the picture below. The trip back to Seoul was more hectic -the train was terrible. I'm now super tired.

BTW I'm a retard, the huge logo on the building is the name of the company that built it, and not some kind of company housing.

Good night

Map