Going Blogger Mobile

Cell phones and other Internet-ready mobile devices have become one of the biggest leaps in communication since, well, communication. I was recently in the Netherlands and took pictures of the wonderful countryside and emailed them from my phone to my friends in Hawaii. In addition to the ability to immediately show friends what I was seeing you have the amazing ability to post these pictures and text and even audio from the phone to your blog. It’s a truly amazing communications ability.

When you send text or photos from your mobile phone or handheld computer to [e-mail], they are automatically posted to your blog. If you don’t already have a blog, one is created for you and Blogger responds to you by telling you the address of the blog so you can have others start viewing it immediately.

When Blogger creates a new blog for you, it is automatically given the title My Mobile Blog. To “claim your blog,” as Blogger calls it, log in to the Web site http://go.blogger.com, as shown in Figure 25.6, and type the verification text sent to your mobile device.

Figure 25.6: Modify your mobile blog at Blogger on the Go.

After you log in to claim your blog, you can give it a custom template and modify it the same way you can modify any Blogger-hosted blog. Send photos or text right to the blog, as shown in Figure 25.7.

Figure 25.7: Instead of e-mailing photos, send them to your blog so everyone can see them.