"Tha rain iz pounding the staRZ...like an o-peeum frigid pederast," the publisher of the Left Bank Review says from the postage-sized screen of his wireless-accessible Web site, Justin Siegel's Poetry Page.
Just as the early days of the Web abounded with sites full of culture, offbeat scribblings, and odes to some of the giants of literature, artists with a penchant for cutting-edge technology are now going mobile with their messages.
Google estimates there are more than 2.3 million WAP (wireless application protocol) pages available for viewing. Industry watchers say the content, created either professionally or through a number of third-party companies such as TagTag--which has helped people create more than 25,000 free WAP pages--is nearly all set up by individuals. WAP is a set of software technologies that lets a Web page built for the Internet be viewed on the wireless Web, which requires different interface characteristics.
There appears to be no dearth of unique content. But are people really going to squint to view a cramped wireless Web page presenting poems by William Butler Yeats or sonnets by William Shakespeare?
Therese Torris, an analyst with Forrester Research, suggests that content for the first WAP phones should be tailored to those who own them, mainly the business community. Wireless content generally falls into three categories: personal pages, corporate pages or business pages.
