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Blog From Your Cellphone?
seldo writes "The BBC has an article up about blogging from your mobile phone. The idea is not really news, but the interesting part is the host of links to interesting new (free) software that lets you do it, including: Manywhere Moblogger (Java), WAPBlog (Perl), and KABLOG (J2ME mobile Java, runs on devices like Palms, the Treo and Blackberries). All three of these interface to also-free server side tech which you need to set up yourself (KABLOG interfaces to the popular MovableType server and compatibles). The article also mentions the proprietary foneblog service which seems very easy to use, but it is software intended to be run by cellphone companies for their users."
How many times does a blog-minded person lose something that was on their mind to time? Blogs re-tell life and a person cannot carry a pad of paper with them all the time to relate their feelings and observations. Most people already carry cell phones and this is a great natural extension.
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Does anyone really need to type long blog entries on the terrible interface of the current wireless phones?
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Who ever came up with the word 'blog' should be taken out and fed to the dolphins.
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
Sadly, we're going to see a lot of this over the next couple of years.
As mobile Internet access becomes reality, the media will be awash with boring articles that offer no more insight than performing "Function X" from your mobile phone.
Next.
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Ya know, it's getting ridiculous nowadays.
The T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger hiptop is the perfect device for this type of blogging. There is already a growing community of these type's of Hiploggers over at http://www.hiptop.com/hiplog/ The nice thing about the Danger Hiptop is the querty keyboard, makes for a better mobile web experience. I bought my wife one of these and it is great.
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I'd love to hear from anyone who can show that they posted from their phone using email before then so we can set history straight.
On February 5th I added to graphic to help me remember that these were posted from the phone.
The things that bloggers forget are probably often the kinds of things that weren only fleetingly interesting to begin with. The cool stuff will probably be remembered, or the blogger in question will write it on a napkin for blogging when he/she gets home.
With the advent of moblogging, I predict that the quality of blogs will go down as bloggers start saying random shit whenever something seems interesting for a moment. Blogs will become watered down by passing distractions, people will lose interest, and blogs will go the way of the narccicistic "this is me, this is 8,000 pictures of me, here are my favorite movies, blah blah blah" sites.
Hmm. . . maybe that's not so bad after all. I'm sure natural selection could use some help in the world of blogs.
Most of the weblogs i ever come to belongs to some narcistic teenage girls writting bullshits. daddy bought me a new car. whoopie.... Posted by Trixie on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 08:00 AM EST (684 Reads) Read more... (459 bytes more) gotta go to school on my new car. oohh joy!!! Posted by Trixie on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 08:53 AM EST (684 Reads) Read more... (459 bytes more) oooh look!!! thats Jake (the cutes guy in my school) *drool* Posted by Trixie on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:00 AM EST (684 Reads) Read more... (459 bytes more) Why is that 18wheeler looks awfully close to my car? Posted by Trixie on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:13 AM EST (684 Reads) Read more... (459 bytes more) I cant feel from the waist down. (gotta call 911) i'll update later... PS; is that a gasoline i smell ? Posted by Trixie on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 09:19 AM EST (684 Reads) Read more... (459 bytes more)
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Some genius decides to blog on their mobile phone while driving.
You know it'll happen, because you've seen 'em too... driving with their knee, phone in one hand, lipstick (or a McDonalds shake) in the other, chatting away.
I don't know about you, but mindless "yeah.. Uh Huh..." conversation is at least possible while driving (and with a hand-free headset). As far as eloquent conversation goes, you probably won't be Winston Churchill while your attention is on the road, but you can at least make guttural affirmative noises. Blogging, on the other hand, requires some coherent, focused thought (insert obligatory comment about Slashdot trolls here).
Talking on a cell phone may be challenging, but I find dialing while driving to be almost impossible to do safely. Blogging on a cell phone? Somebody's gotta be dumb enough... I hope they have air bags.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
With Opera out for Symbian 6 devices you can use a real web browser to read/post to blogs if you desire. More importantly there are active working ports of Putty (ssh) as well, so now just go finagle a P800 and enjoy the net in your hand.
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A friend of mine had this idea and suggested calling it 'bogging' rather than a blogging, as you could add entried whilst on the bog. That's where I have all my profound thoughts anyway.
(For non British, 'bog' = toilet).
He/she is probably American. Most of the cellphone companies suck here and the phones are probably models from 2 years ago. If you get a free phone when you sign up for service, chances are the phone sucks and is at least 1 generation behind.
Why do americans get the rat's ass of phones when Japan has realtime video phones?!
DUPE!
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