Mobile Blogging

I have a mobile device with me at all time and a computer only some of the time. I therefore thought I should try out writing and uploading blog posts remotely. I'm writing this post using my iPod Touch while I'm on vacation.

I'm finding that I'm doing more and more using a mobile device. I do the majority of my tweeting, a significant amount of my e-mail, as well as rss reading, facebooking, and even checking my Google Analytics on a mobile device. So, blogging makes sense too.

I'd love to hear about your experiences in using mobile platforms via the commenting mechansim below.

Comments

[Bob]

So far I've only been exposed to smart phones and PDAs via other people's devices - and find first time usability sadly lacking. I prefer single effective tool simplicity to Swiss Army Knife complexity and the granola bar effect where a simple wholesome product becomes an over processed candy bar. So I find a laptop and a cell phone have met my mobile needs so far without any great threat of withdrawal symptoms from addiction. ...and I do seem to be vulnerable to addictive behavior, so it's probably best that I have a high threshold on the first use usability factor.

[Karel]

Thanks for your comment, Bob. While I appreciate your tendency toward addictive behavior may be a reason not to get into smart phones, I do think that they really have to be experienced in order to get a true sense of the user interface. I find that the user experience with the iPhone/Touch is far superior to that of computer-based operating systems, a few problems notwithstanding. This is likely due to the clean-sheet approach to design that a new device like this affords. I had first just looked at smart phone like devices, like you, via trying out those of friends and colleagues. However, it was when I got my own that I truly appreciated the user experience. Of course, it now takes some self-control to avoid developing an addition to it.

[AVGeek]

I just got back from vacation and decided to see how much I could do with a standard cell phone (not a smart phone, but my plain old 3G cell phone). I was able to upload images very easily to my facebook and twitter accounts where my friends and coworkers commented (much to my surprise as I got regular updates sent to me via SMS). I linked my twitter and facebook updates so that one would link to the other and had an overall blast blogging my vacation in real time. I heard from my dean tonight that I had one of the more advertised vacations here at work.

Overall, even a standard cell phone can do quite a bit.

Cheers!
-D

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