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Blog From Your Cellphone?
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michael
on Mon Feb 24, 2003 03:43 AM
from the gag dept.
from the gag dept.
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."
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Good to see (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://riverside-camarilla.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday May 29 2003, @07:24PM)
Re:Good to see (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.stack.nl/~ajuin/)
Oh yeah, that's always a great loss to humanity...
Seriously, weblogging is a form of vanity publishing. To each his own, but I can't understand why people seem to take it so seriously.
Re:Good to see (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://arvindn.livejournal.com/ | Last Journal: Monday June 16 2003, @12:39AM)
Re:This is terrible (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:This is terrible (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://phorm.phormix.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 19 2003, @12:08PM)
Re:This is terrible (Score:5, Informative)
Why do americans get the rat's ass of phones when Japan has realtime video phones?!
Re:Good to see (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/~$$$$$exyGal/journal/#naked | Last Journal: Tuesday January 04 2005, @04:23AM)
44 333 22 999 88 11 999 00 00 11 22 333 44 1 33 22 1 99 22 111 000 111 33 2 00 999 11 2 4 11 000 *
NOTE: the above represents the keypad strokes I have to do to type on my phone.
Add in another 20 lines of the above, and that should do it. It'd suck if I wanted to add an HREF to imdb.com ;-).
--sex [slashdot.org]
Re:Good to see (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Good to see (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.eidolon.co.uk/ | Last Journal: Wednesday February 26 2003, @05:55AM)
a small note-book and pencil are more robust, reliable and equally compact than any mobile phone or PDA. appropriate technology.
yeah, until (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
First post from my cellphone! (Score:2, Funny)
How is this interesting? (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday October 09 2003, @02:39PM)
Maybe it's just me... (Score:2)
(http://www.meatpipe.com/)
It's not just you. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
I hate that word (Score:4, Funny)
Excellent! (Score:4, Funny)
Keypad (Score:4, Interesting)
And mobile 'phones with keyboards just look wrong. Save it for the PDAs.
-Mark
Dupe (Score:4, Informative)
Blog news. (Score:1, Funny)
From the /. headline (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://255.255.255.255/)
The interesting part for me would be the host of links to interesting new (cheap) mobile services. Fuck free software if it'll cost a fortune to do it.
Perhaps the answer is in the article itself:
The latest trend is moblogging - updating your blog with a mobile phone.
Name of the new trend tells us plenty...
T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger Hiptop (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.zemote.com/)
--zemote--
blogging (Score:3, Funny)
GIRL: "hold on one second"
BOY : "anything , baby"
* GIRL punches in blog of how bad date is going
* BOY uses his wireless web to read her blog
BOY : "i brought you flowers"
*repeat update procedure
not a good thing.
WeBLOG (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://flokemon.blogspot.com/)
How can you really surf and spot places you want to link to with a mobile phone? Ok, so it is getting better than it used to with the new generation of big colour screen mobile phones, but I still can't imagine surfing around from my phone and updating my blog from there.
And the phone keyboards?! R we going 2 c journals updated in abbreviated style?
It just seems to me that it can only be a way to get even more irritating teen journals getting published on the web. Not so good.
Who was first? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.stuartwoodward.com)
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.
Now how to lower the cost? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://max.romantschuk.fi/)
A PDA-based solution with which you could update your blog offline and sync it when you have access would be nice.
More boring and useless weblog (Score:5, Funny)
(http://anjingtanah.coolfreepage.com/)
Re:More boring and useless weblog (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://arvindn.livejournal.com/ | Last Journal: Monday June 16 2003, @12:39AM)
If you've really read any blogs at all, you'd know blogs interlink extensively. This is a great mechanism to increase the signal/noise ratio. Same way that the web works, except much quicker in time. So you wouldn't come across lots of blogs like Trixie's unless you went looking for them.
If Trixie's got readers, who have the same interests that she does, that's fine; as a community they are able to discuss what they'd be discussing anyway, except much more easily. If not, nobody'd link to her and she'll stop posting the junk after a while. Get over it: the internet stands for freedom of speech; anyone can express themself; and you can't gag them just because you think they're stupid. Actually, its my opinion that blogging needs a certain amount of humility, rather than being a consequence of vanity.
And all of a sudden... (Score:1, Funny)
J2ME = run on mobile phones ! (Score:1, Interesting)
This is not a know featured, but easilly verifiable when operator push : can play to thousand games
Enduser do not care tech they use, but just what they can do ! J2ME is evrywhere but people do not noticed
By the way the MIDP 2.0 (cf. midlets) standard spec is much more fun, because it add major feature to the J2ME environement ! Nokia already pusing this one
-ERT
Phlog (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://twistedcoding.com/)
Soon it will all be much easier. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.nsa.org/)
Bogging ? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.fatsquirrel.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday March 19 2003, @07:09AM)
(For non British, 'bog' = toilet).
Doing it already (Score:1)
Karma sacrifice (Score:4, Funny)
gAAAAH!
cut this shit out already
old idea i had (Score:1)
(http://willy.boerland.org/myblog)
No wonder the tech industry is in the dumps (Score:2, Interesting)
exciting thing that has happened lately??
Just think about what we used to talk about:
15 years ago: You can buy your own computer!
10 years ago: you can get a unix on your computer!
6 years ago: all of humanities knoweldge--on your computer!
now: blog from your phone!!!!
Where's the excitement? Where's the next big than?
i do it my way, just like BK. (Score:1)
(http://www.r0b0t.com/)
I'll be impressed... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://forechecker.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday September 07, @08:16PM)
802.11 iPod moblogging (Score:2, Funny)
(http://dev.null.org/)
Stop the insanity! (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.fahrlander.net/)
Which Illuminatti keeps telling us that doing text-entry on a cellphone is a really fun, good idea?
Whoever it is, has never tried to communicate by pressing M-M-M, G-G, R-R-R. And blogging is just another application pushing this to the limit.
We don't need to blow our brains out, trying to type (as well as display) on a cellphone....WE NEED BETTER CELLPHONES. It doesn't have to be the size of a lunchbox...just a little larger. How about doubling the size and using handwriting input? Maybe a keyboard with real letter-keys? And a 1" screen isn't gonna cut it, either.
How about something like a tricorder: snap it on your belt and 'Bluetooth' a set of headphones to it? When it's time to enter a lot of text, just unclip the main unit and lift the lid to start doing some real work.
Since before the world 'slapped themselves in the forehead' and realized we only need a handful of Amazon.coms, only a couple of PayPals, and NOT another mega-auction site, someone has been pushing the internet on these microscopic devices. And the industry has greeted this technology with a yawn. It's great stuff....but using it is very annoying.
Let's quit wasting time trying to make the phones small-and-sexy; let's make'em useful, instead!
MMS logs (Score:2, Interesting)
If you're the type to rant in your blog... (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/)
My first mobile blog entry (Score:2, Funny)
If only somebody can invent... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
THAT would be a blog revolution!
Please go away (Score:1)
(http://www.venicesucks.com/)
It's a ... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Monday December 30 2002, @12:57AM)
Great (Score:2, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Platonic Chain - Video blogging. (Score:1)
(http://eaerth.isfuckingbrilliant.com/)
In "Platonic Chain Web," the extra episode (not exactly part of the series
It's the wave of the future.
What's the big deal? (Score:2)
(http://alfredo.octavio.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday January 14 2003, @06:35PM)
What's the big deal?
OT: Question (Score:1)
Does anyone know of an easy to use journaling tool set for the web. I have a friend that will be hiking around the country, and was wanting to be able to stop in at internet cafes or what not, and update all his friends on his progress. What I'd like to be able to give him is a web site that he doesn't need to know much, but able to upload pictures, and make journal entries quickly, and with little technical savvy.
Google just bought Blooger.com now what? (Score:1)
(http://www.danslagle.com/)
It will be interesting to see what they play to do with this technology.
Dan Slagle
Keeper of the "Unofficial iMovie FAQ [danslagle.com]"
There's a better solution (Score:2)
If I want to remember a detail for a blog, I use the voice recording feature on my T68i. Just take the memo, its way faster than typing, and you can do it while you're driving or whatever if you have an earpiece. I listen to the recordings when I upload (but only really as a reference, I type something 'fresh' based on what I recorded).
If you ask me, voice-to-text is the one missing piece that would really solve the problem of text entry on mobile devices. If the phone (or a backend app) could turn my recorded voice into live text... that would rock.
pop2blog perl script (Score:1)
(http://www.bixworld.com/)
a plague of Gertrude Stein! (Score:2)
(http://mnemisis.sourceforge.net/ | Last Journal: Sunday March 30 2003, @03:13PM)
C'mon. It has to be the right thing to do, as nobody wants to do it.
Hmm (Score:2, Informative)
Cell Phone WebCam Blog (Score:2)
(http://www.econotarian.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday May 18 2004, @02:14PM)
feh (Score:1)
an easier solution (Score:1)
(http://www.lemure.net/ | Last Journal: Friday July 09 2004, @10:33AM)
1. Create an email address on you server (come on, any good blogger runs his server out of his speakeasy DSL connection).
2. Write a script, perl or something, that goes through and parses email sent to this address.
3. Send an email from your phone to this address, include some simple authentication mechanism, say like this in the body:
r00t1sc00l
blog blog blog blog. today i ate this things, slept, and thought about getting sex.
4. Script retrieves email, checks for the password (in this case r00t1sc00l), and sticks the rest into your blog.
5. You could do more with this, say a command between the password, and your dumbass thoughts that no one cares about, that could let you replace the current blog, edit something, etc etc.
Now... how hard is that? If only my nokia still works, damn this ancient phone of mine, only allowing recieving of email, instead of sending. At least I got it for freeeeeeeeeeeeeee. (as in beer, yay beer).
Do it with the Matrix Reloaded cellphone.. (Score:1)
there's an old saying... (Score:1)
Perhaps we need a new saying:
"If someone makes a blog entry, does anyone really care?"