If blogging is your thing, and you like to actually get out from behind your desk every once in a while (apparently there’s a whole real-life world out there, I have no idea what it is but I’ve heard of it), mobile blogging is your best bet. And, the iPhone’s gorgeously huge multi-touch display combined with the bad-ass Safari browser is the perfect platform from which to blog on the go.
I make it a point to take my blogging to the road and actually make a few posts with my iPhone. I can’t type as fast on the iPhone’s on-screen keyboard as I can with my laptop keyboard, but that’s expected. I can, however, type faster on the iPhone than on any physical mobile phone keyboard I’ve ever used (and I’ve used my fair share).
So, it’s good to hear that mobile blogging tools are about to hit the iPhone. WordPress is apparently going to hit the iPhone very soon – perhaps with the launch of the AppStore. Matt Mullenwag, head honcho at WordPress, will only admit that there is a mobile device that has a WordPress client “built in,” and that “you can probably guess which one that is” – but we’ll take that as confirmation that WordPress is coming to the iPhone.
Six Apart, not one to man the sidelines, will also be throwing a native TypePad blogging application into the fray. “Six Apart pioneered the mobile blogging experience with an iPhone-optimized blog service,” said Chris Alden, CEO, Six Apart. “We’re taking it to the next level with our native iPhone application for TypePad that’s already in development.”
The native third-party applications do away with the need to blog through a web interface, and will no doubt offer the benefits of speed and offline blogging to iPhone die-hards. Until these WordPress and TypePad application hit the market, you might do well to check out this WordPress plug-in (WPhone) that optimizes the WordPress interface for your iPhone (read: it’s EDGE-friendly). I personally would rather use the full WordPress interface, but I only use it in conjunction with a WiFi connection.
Check out this video. It’s long. Fast forward to 51:00.
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[Via: MacWorld]