It must be the lack of sunlight for like 5 months a year that forces the Swedes to stay indoors most of the time and come up with all these cool stuff like Saabs, smoked fish and Mobilblogg. I stubled upon this website while searching for a moblogging plugin for Wordpress (for the technically challenged, moblogging (not to be confused with Mublogging) is the act of posting entries to your blog using a mobile device, and Wordpress is the kick-ass open source blogging software that powers this website).
While I am not the most avid blogger and it wouldn’t kill me to wait to post an entry, it would be extra cool to be able to post some pics from my phone. And it would actually be convenient while travelling somewhere in the Gulf countries where it often costs an arm and a leg (and sometimes a kidney) to get crappy internet access. I’ve posted a few old pics to test it out.
Mobilblogg is not a new idea though, other moblogging websites have been around for a while, such as Text America. The thing about Mobilblogg is that it works for international users. And since I was one of the few international users who signed up till now, the folks behind Mobilblogg contacted me when I signed up to see if the service worked ok when posting from Egyptian networks, sort of interational beta testing. And the thing works great, you can post pics to your moblog via MMS or email.
Problem is, I don’t have a camera phone (I used a borrowed Nokia 9300 to moblog the pics I posted), I am holding on to my Nokia 8250 with a broken screen that have sustained some serious abuse and still alive and kicking. Might be putting it to retirement soon in favor of the rugged and brick-like Siemens M75