Mike Rohde comments on his attempts to blog from a Palm OS handheld. Alas, he has yet to find a good solution for true mobile weblog posts; his greatest successes to date have involved syncing posts to the desktop for posting via more capable tools.
I’ve considered writing my own blogging client for Palm OS, but there’s one thing preventing me: lack of real need. Until I can scrape together the funds for my own CLIÉ UX-50 or a different wireless handheld, I’m strictly in an offline mode. I tend to do most of my blogging in response to my daily Web surfing, and given that I surf from a desktop computer, I’ve already got all the tools I need right in front of me. If I absolutely have to write something for my blog while I’m on the go and away from my desk, I can just as easily write it in DayNotez, then copy-and-paste it into my browser for posting through Movable Type’s very capable Web interface.
I suspect that as soon as I own a wireless handheld for a week or so, I’ll be itching to sit down and write something. But before then, even if I were paid for the effort, I haven’t got any way to test such a program, so it’s not a very interesting project to me.
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I have a tool to do blog posting directly from a palm device, in case you don’t feel like writing your own when you do get a device:
http://www.bitsplitter.net/vagablog/
It’s still very minimal, and supports just the download blog list and post methods from the Blogger API. I’m working on getting some more interesting functions implemented.
Sounds like a great tool, although it’s of no use to me yet because it doesn’t support Movable Type. Then again, until I get a mobile blogging rig up and running (read that: until I’ve got some spare cash to buy said mobile blogging rig), no mobile blogging software is very useful to me.
I’ll keep my eye on Vagablog (nice name, by the way), because it’s still in very early development, and I expect it may eventually support Movable Type if there’s enough demand for it.
Thanks for the link, Mike.
Since has been over 2 years since this post, there must be a larger selection of handheld blogging apps out there.
Mobile blogging is an interest to teachers and students because it frees them to be anywhere, anytime (i.e. – blogging a field trip or learning experience outdoors) thus eliminating the classroom walls.
Since has been over 2 years since this post, there must be a larger selection of handheld blogging apps out there.
Mobile blogging is an interest to teachers and students because it frees them to be anywhere, anytime (i.e. – blogging a field trip or learning experience outdoors) thus eliminating the classroom walls.