MobileGirl hits the nail on the head: "The point here is that the technology is changing the meaning of the artifact".

The thing your phone records is called a photo, and the thing your film camera records is called a photo, but that doesn't mean you should directly compare the two - they're using for very different things.

On top of this I'd expect there to be some change in how photos are used in a mobile context, particularly as network effects kick in...

Mobile operators start to get segmentation - a subject that Tomi Ahonen addresses at length in his latest book.

Malcolm Gladwell on the faith we place in images.

Jakob Nielsen lists the most hated advertising techniques. As Steve writes here, "The idea that the key to great marketing is just to shout at your customers for 30 seconds louder than your competitors are shouting is not an accurate description of how the world works. The key to your customers' love is not to act obnoxious enough that they can't help but pay attention.".

Whizzy little automatic face generator.