I was starting to think WordPress was such a good blogging tool that Blogger would become obsolete. Then I noticed something cool. Blogger has been doing Mobile Blogging for a while, but I ignored it. I really didn't 'get' it. Now I do.
The picture above (pretty bad eh? read on) was taken using my phone. I took a picture of my laptop screen showing an image on the blogger instructions for mobile blogging. Self referential, but it serves its purpose. Once the picture was taken, I sent it to Blogger (go@blogger.com). Blogger then sent me a reply with a 'token' to claim my picture. Blogger had also set up a blog for my phone (elfbug266, cute). When I was back at my computer, not too tough since I was sitting at it the whole time, I launched Blogger and claimed my picture. Blogger then asked if I wanted to merge the elfbug266 blog into my existing blog. The post migrated over and I was able to add this text to explain the very bad picture.
According to the instructions, Blogger accepts text messages as well. No photo required, same process. One nit on the whole thing: When I tried to edit this post by adding text, Blogger's text editor kept trying to delete the picture. After a few tries, I switched to 'Edit Html' view of the posting page and added some text then flipped back to 'Compose' view and here we are!
Round 1 goes to Blogger for mobile blogging. Wordpress, bring it on.
