Author: Kurt

Read today at Six Apart that Mena Trott, co-developer of Movable Type, the software that this and countless other blogs are powered by, has bought a T-Mobile Sidekick device to play around with. Some folks have been using this to moblog with. That MT’s creators are exploring moblogging bodes well for MT to soon have support for posting from mobile devices as part of its product. As Mena herself writes:

How better to get the features you want in a tool than by convincing the developers that they need them for themselves?

(Truth be told, they had already indicated as much in MT’s Support Forum way back in July of last year, but it’s still good to read additional affirmation of this.)

As you can see from the previous post, I’ve managed to figure out how to post to this site from my cellphone, using wapblogger. It’s still a bit rough around the edges (it takes the first 5 words of the post as the title, and I can’t categorize the post, which is why the “possibly related” area is blank), and frankly I’m not sure why I need this functionality in the first place, but I can’t deny I’m pleased I actually figured it out. Admittedly posting text isn’t as sexy as photos like Joi Ito’s Moblog (and don’t think I haven’t started working on Naoko for a new camera-equipped phone!). I kind of like the implementation of cellphone blogging seen at gomi no sensei, who has put his cellphone posts in a sidebar entitled “oyayubizoku” (and yes, I’m jealous he’s using that title!). I’d still prefer a way to do this via email (which is dirt cheap), rather than via my phone’s web browser (which isn’t as cheap)…