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Post details: Mobile blogging on Palm :idea:

2003-11-13

23:48:51, Categories: Design Samples, Ideas, Palm

Mobile blogging on Palm :idea:

My wish is to post blog entries from a PalmOS powered handheld. (Palm, Sony Clie, Treo, HandERA, ...)

The most precise aim is to find software capable of posting blog entries via XML-RPC. And requiring only a network connection to the Internet.

Establishing connection is not a problem - a mobile phone linked to Palm via IrDA port is one simple and efficient solution. There are other too...

Problem is that I could only find software which requires Java VM on the Palm. This software may run on the mobile phone, there is some s/w written specifically for mobilde phones.

But on my Palm Vx the free RAM space is too valuable to install Java.
Therefore I am still looking for the best solution.

Pointers found so far:

[1] Introduction to Mobile Blogging by Jonathan Knudsen - has good explanation of blogging, the history of moblogging and blog server APIs
http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/articles/blogging/

[2] Joi Ito's Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources - nice links re moblogging, worth exploring
http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html

[3] Rohdesign Weblog Updates: New Mobile Edition [of blog] & RSS Link
http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/archives/000095.html

I found a mobile blogging application for Palm - plog !!!

But why it has to be installed as a web clipping application?
Will try it and then know more.

[4] http://dsandler.org/plog/

[ a pointer to plog - via Emmanuel Fr?con's blog entry Mobile Blogging ]

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Comment from: captsolo [Visitor]

Permalink 2003-11-14 @ 00:11

Comment from: Mike Rohde [Visitor] · http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/

captsolo, thanks for the link! I have yet to find a decent solution myself and I too don't want to deal with Java. Azure has been mentioned by several friends as decent (again it requires Java).

When I tried using Palm OS web browsers on a Tungsten C or on a Dana Wireless device, entries were limited to 4k and put into weird pop-up scroll boxes.

I have now resorted to creating a Wordsmith file (Memo pad would work well too) and writing offline, then syncing and copy/pasting that text into NetNewsWire for posting. It's not terribly elegant, but it is reliable and works pretty well.

Actually, I had the idea of proposing a weblog editor to the folks over at Stand Alone software, who make the very nice Hand/RSS application for reading RSS feeds either by conduit or wirelessly. Maybe if we got several requests going, they might consider doing a shareware app.

Please keep me informed if you come across any other solutions... I'm very interested in both wirless and conduit based solutions.

Permalink 2003-11-14 @ 01:24

Comment from: Mike Rohde [Visitor] · http://www.rohdesign.com/weblog/

Permalink 2003-11-14 @ 01:25

Comment from: Dan Sandler [Visitor] · http://dsandler.org

Actually, you don't need the web clipping application for plog to work. You can use it any browser (Blazer, palmOne's Web Browser Pro, whatever). Go directly to the plog start page in your browser and it ought to work. (Let me know if you have trouble with this method.)

Permalink 2003-12-05 @ 22:57

Comment from: Aaron [Visitor] · http://www.virtualmonkeys.net

Thanks for your links.
I've no cell phone and I would like to know is there way to send my written on my Palm to my blog via hotsync?
Pls leave me a message on my site if you would. :)

Permalink 2003-12-26 @ 00:45

Comment from: Johan [Visitor]

Why not use mo:Blog?

http://www.tektonica.com/moblog/

Permalink 2004-03-09 @ 18:37

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