Some Brisbane Guy

I’ve just installed the Postie WordPress plugin, it’s great.  You can post via email, including posting of images as you can see below.  The posts below were actually from a mobile phone that can send email over GPRS, which is pretty trick.  OK the moblogging thing has been around forever but it’s still cool, k?

I’ve now edited this post to be more useful but the gist of it is still the same.  The advantages of posting to a blog by email are:

• you’re doing it from a simple mail client, i.e. anywhere
• you can keep a copy of your blog post in your mail client’s sent items
• the blog software handles inserting pictures and all that boring crap
• you can put in HTML formatting if you want to, but you can just use plain text enter-enter-enter formatting if you want and the blog software works it all out
• it’s just cool

Cheers,
Glenn

PS It does feel as though you need to sign off as if you’re writing an email though, it’s a bit weird.

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