Mobile blogging through Posterous
Mobile technologies are here to help us on our day to day activities and
when I started writing blogs for Mobile Computing Authority, the first thing
that I looked for is how to post a blog using my Smartphone. So, I started
to do some experiment if it is in fact easy or at least feasible. Using my BlackBerry, I
opened the BlackBerry Browser and login to our admin page. Page loads okay.
Navigating to the page is a bit clunky though and in fact very annoying.
Formatting a post is very difficult. I gave up quickly.
Posterous to the rescue (Insert drum rolls here…:)). Posterous.com is a
blog site but they have a neat feature that allows you to send an email to
their site and the content of the email will be posted to your blog. And not only that, you can configure it to also
post to your other blog sites. One neat feature is the ability to attach
media files and according to their site, media files will be formatted.
That’s just perfect, total mobility. Use your Smartphone for what it is good for and let their service do the rest. So, as an experiment, I signed up and configure my account to post here. This is my first post that’s all done from my BlackBerry Curve. Let’s see!
when I started writing blogs for Mobile Computing Authority, the first thing
that I looked for is how to post a blog using my Smartphone. So, I started
to do some experiment if it is in fact easy or at least feasible. Using my BlackBerry, I
opened the BlackBerry Browser and login to our admin page. Page loads okay.
Navigating to the page is a bit clunky though and in fact very annoying.
Formatting a post is very difficult. I gave up quickly.
Posterous to the rescue (Insert drum rolls here…:)). Posterous.com is a
blog site but they have a neat feature that allows you to send an email to
their site and the content of the email will be posted to your blog. And not only that, you can configure it to also
post to your other blog sites. One neat feature is the ability to attach
media files and according to their site, media files will be formatted.
That’s just perfect, total mobility. Use your Smartphone for what it is good for and let their service do the rest. So, as an experiment, I signed up and configure my account to post here. This is my first post that’s all done from my BlackBerry Curve. Let’s see!
Update: After looking at this post, I found out that there are little things that’s not set. For instance, no tags and the post is uncategorized. And you don’t have any control of where the picture should be inserted. The convenience though makes this service very appealing and I’ll most likely use Posterous from time to time.
Craig also pointed out that there are iPhone apps just for blogging. A sample one is WordPress for iPhone.
Apps, BlackBerry, Blogging, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Mobile Blog, Posterous