How to set up a moblog?
Sam (my better half) recently got a new phone with a camera - and asked me to set up a moblog for him. Having seen many moblogs - but never having the capability myself, I thought there must be many tutorials/services/scripts out there to set one up. I found a few (not as many as I thought) - and ended up deciding to go with MfOP2. It was a pretty simple setup - now he can just email the photos from his phone, and they appear on his site. (No, I’m not linking to it, because at the moment, there’s a scary picture of me on there!) 
I know there’s a few other services out there - have any of you tried them? What were your thoughts? Which one do you recommend?
(Yes, I’m aware that there’s some promise of mobile blogging in MT 3.0 - but I’m impatient)
December 30th, 2003 at 10:58 am
I tried mfOp2 myself and it works REALLY well (being that I couldn’t find anything that actually works) but the only problem is, my phone (moto t722i) sends all my images as one file name temppic.jpg and mfOp doesn’t rename the images or anything - the problem i had was it would post the same image over and over and none of the new images would post.
there is another service called airblogging (airblogging.com) that would put a text string at the bottom of the entries (which stopped me from using it) but the post after this might just do the trick and i might use that service now
December 30th, 2003 at 5:51 pm
Not sure if you’ve tinkered with this plugin or not, Jennifer, but the POP2Blog Plugin for MT might be a really easy way for Sam the Man to post to any MT installation.
December 30th, 2003 at 6:04 pm
Jennifer was in the process of setting up a MoBlog for Sam and asked for suggestions on the best tools over at ScriptyGoddess.com. This triggered a little bell from way back when and I went hunting for the simple way…
January 14th, 2004 at 5:21 am
A list of some pieces of software and some services that allow mobile phone blogging; additions most welcome! [...]
January 27th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
Hiya,
we have a new moblogging community, what we’ve tried to do is keep the moblog open to everyone on a copyright commons basis. We have integrated some neat tools server side for adminning your moblog, and are adding .3gp and sound (amr) provision this week. for a standalone service requiring no scripting on your part, easily rss’d and incorporated into your own stuff, we hope we’ve done a good job.
March 29th, 2004 at 4:20 pm
Do you still use MfOP2? I have tried this site but but it hasn’t worked yet…. I also email them and no response?
March 29th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
As with all things blog-related and my husband… he lost interest and hasn’t used it too much since then. So I can’t say whether it’s still working or not