Moblog
p. So, you probably noticed that I posted my first mobile blog entries yesterday and this morning, and wondered what was going on. Well, I was prompted to embark on this adventure—further freeing myself from the tyranny of cables—for the following reasons:
- I got a “Treo 600(Handspring Treo 600)”:http://handspring.com/products/communicators/treo600_overview.jhtml;jsessionid=WP2V4ATWWKPM5QFIAE1CFFGAVAATKIV0 Palm-based phone a week or so ago (a long story which I intend to tell in the next few days, as well as reviewing this brilliant bit of kit)
- Via a discussion thread in the comments of an entry on [“Dan Gillmor’s blog”:http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001543.shtml#001543], I found a service called “Mfop2(Which apparently stands for Moblogging For Other People Too)”:http://new.bastish.net/cgi-bin/mfop2/index.cgi?rm=about which lets you upload entries via email, once you have registered your details. If you attach a picture to the email—the Treo has a typically poor, but nevertheless serviceable camera built in—then that gets uploaded too
p. I don’t know how often I’ll actually blog on the move, but it is quite fun, and using Mfop2 was much easier than writing a custom script[1]. Even with a keyboard on the Treo, typing long articles isn’t easy. And it may not always be obvious in the end product, but I do like to put a fair bit of time and thought into what I write, which isn’t really compatible with blogging on a handheld. Still, it’s nice to have an alternative for when I’m feeling spontaneous.
fn1. Once I had hit my forehead in frustration after realising that the new entry was not showing on the index page because I hadn’t included the new MoBlogging category in the template.
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djn1: That was precisely the problem I had.
dvd: You beat me to it -- that's what I was going to suggest. I noticed that plugin a little while ago, but haven't yet got around to altering my template and installing it.
by bsag @ 03/12/2003 6:12 pm • Permalink •
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I had the same problem with an entry failing to display because I'd forgotten to update my template a couple of weeks ago. I added a new category and totally forgot that I'd changed my template so as to exclude two categories. I think that an exclude function for the MTEntry tag would be quite a useful addition to MT; i.e. rather than having to list ALL the categories you wish to include, you simply list the few that you don't want to be displayed.----- the two of you might be interested in the catentries plugin [http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/catentries.php ] which replaces <MTEntries> and allows you to exclude categories. i agree though, this should have been in mt by default.
by dvd @ 03/12/2003 6:12 pm • Permalink •
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dvd/bsag: thanks for the pointer to the catentries plugin. When I've got a bit of time I'll give it a try.
by djn1 @ 03/12/2003 7:12 pm • Permalink •
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i was going to show my ignorance and ask what a moblog was - thought it might be something annotating the behaviour of a mob. So - to save me googling - I take it you're walking round the world with a mobile phone and creating blog entries and adding photographs taken with the phone? Ah, I see... (sound of large penny dropping...)
by pete @ 03/12/2003 8:12 pm • Permalink •
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bsag: the CatEntries plugin is a snip to install - it took me five minutes - so it's definitely worth using in preference to the default MT way of dealing with this issue.
by djn1 @ 03/12/2003 10:12 pm • Permalink •
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Ah man. I could have used that MoBlog link when I used my Clie NR70V. Too bad it just broke.
by Greg Smith @ 04/12/2003 4:12 am • Permalink •
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Oh, oh, oh! Tell us what you think of the Treo 600? I've got a 180g (graffiti) which I love to bits, but the 600 does look very sexy. How is the keyboard to use? What's the battery life like? Tell us everything!
by Jo @ 04/12/2003 1:12 pm • Permalink •
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I don't have a clue what you lot are on about. So, OK I'm a ludite but how about using this site to help us steam radio freaks progress a little.
Some simple terms please, Moblog for idiots - a definition might be a good place to start.
Many Thanx
by Col. Wildtrousers II @ 18/12/2003 5:12 am • Permalink •
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Col. Wildtrousers II: Nice name! Moblog = mobile + weblog. In other words, posting an article (or a picture) to your weblog whilst not at a wired computer. Usually you do this with a phone or a PDA that has wireless web access.
by bsag @ 20/12/2003 7:12 pm • Permalink •
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