Over the past few days I've been thinking about mobile blogging tools and have found two. I started to plan the minimum feature set for moblogging. Absolute minimum feature spec is the ability to edit a draft offline and then submit it to a blog when you get a network connection. The ability to edit server stored drafts or delete existing posts are not essential, as I think that people will want to write a post whilst travelling, though I can see the case for editing an existing post. Setting yourself up to write java MIDLets under MacOS X is not straightforward, lack of signing tools is one issue. O'Reilly have a good list of wireless java articles, though some go back to 2001.
Joi Ito has a good set of resources for moblogging. Kablog the original palm tool has vanished. It is still on Handango, but the developer website has gone.
More excitingly there is a new moblogging tool called by Michael Gratton and called Azure, it was initially for java phones. It has been turned into a Palm prc file by Stu West.
There is also the BlogPlanetprogram, reviewed here on Mobitopia. It works more than just the 3650, but only does photos on that phone.
I have a T68i and now have GPRS with Orange who have a useful setup tool for mobile email, which sadly doesn't work on Macs, neither Safari nor IE, UPDATE - it works on Mozilla.
Waiting for GPRS setup sms to arrive and will have a play with moblogging later. Further thoughts on developing moblogging tools soon, nothing quite matches what I want so far.
blogging tools: May 2003 Archives
A few days ago I wrote a short entry on a variety of interesting new stuff. I have autodiscovery turned on for this moveabletype installation, as it makes finding the trackback url effortless. However it can lead to inadvertant trackbacking of sites where you are just writing a short note. The autodiscovery tool needs a confirmation phase, an "are you sure?" dialog.
