Comments on: Mobile blogging is a total arse

By: Hans Lysglimt

Hans Lysglimt — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:53:36 +0000

Hi Ben,
Good comments. We might implement alias and RSS feed in the service.

Thanks!
Regards,
Hans

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:17:26 +0000

@Hans: This looks cool, but have 2 concerns… I don’t nesc want blog readers to know my mobile number – could there be an alias option? Also, there’s no RSS feed.

By: Hans Lysglimt

Hans Lysglimt — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:11:11 +0000

You might want to check out our new free instant SMS blogging service launched this week in beta.

You send any SMS to out gateway in the U.K. and your blog is instantly created on this url:

http://www.glimt.com/yourphonenumber

We think this is pretty cool, we made it simple and basic so anyone can experiment with different uses.
Tell us what you think!
Thanks.

Hans
Glimt.com

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:53:11 +0000

As per Gerrymoth:

I managed to blog the entire Glastonbury Festival straight to my VOX through the Share Online application on my N95.

http://whatleydude.vox.com

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:39:38 +0000

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By: David @ trutap

David @ trutap — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:01:44 +0000

Guys why don’t you give trutap’s mobile blogging a spin and let us know what you think! We support Blogger, Typepad, Xanga and more. You can even upload a pic at the same time m.trutap.com

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:12:48 +0000

Moveable Type has a native iPhone interface that is pretty good.

http://plugins.movabletype.org/imt/

Could still do with some further improvements, but I can’t complain so far.

By: alfie

alfie — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:20:54 +0000

Mobile blogging can be hard. It’s a fact. Applications that are pre-configured to post to your preferred host are great, but there are issues using it on Java only handsets. For me, this is where MMS actually comes into it’s own.

MMS has always been a poor cousin to SMS, I think because psychologically, when you send an MMS, what do you get back? 99% of the time it’s either nothing or an SMS. That’s because the recipient is like “cool, but what, do I have to send a picture/video back?”.

MMS is the best method of mobile blogging simply because it’s native, interoperable with all networks (even internationally), and is just about the same as sending an SMS and so ease of use is the key.

The trick to using MMS as an effective method of mobile blogging is to have an authentication/registration system as standard on the backend of whatever system/host you want to blog to. i.e. why not write a wordpress script that accepts an anonymous MMS, sends you an SMS asking you to confirm your username and password, and upon validation then allows any further MMS’s to be published directly to your blog. Not a hard thing to write any WordPress coders lurking out there.

This is the system we use on our latest iteration of the Participation Toolkit (http://moblogtech.com/products/participation-toolkit/ ) at http://www.bigartmob.com

An anonymous user sends an MMS, we send them a text back with registration details, validate the MSISDN, and voila, they have a blog they can post to forever using that mobile number.

So mobile blogging can be hard, or it can be super easy, it just takes a bit of thought as to what people actually want to do and finding the easiest way to do that securely.

By: gerrymoth

gerrymoth — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:32:21 +0000

As of yesterday 14th Jan 2008 there is now a Symbian WordPress application, download and try from http://www.telewaving.com/products_2.html

Alternatively have you tried Shozu application (www.shozu.com) they now do WordPress.

Personally I use the built in Nokia Share Online for mobile blogging with VOX, works great for me and you can add up to 6 images or video.