It's time for the weblog to move away from the web page.
A blog is a conversation, remember? I post on my site in order to connect and communicate with people who share similiar interests as me. Most others have blogs so their friends and families can keep up with what's going on with them.
All this virtual fellowship happens on the web, trapped inside html pages. This is fine for an online magazine, not person-to-person communication. My friends would rather e-talk to me via email, IM, and text messages via a cellphone. Getting them to read my blog is a pain for both parties.
I need my current blog tool to help me out. It should accept posts that I send through email and my cellphone. From there it should automatically update my webpage and webfeed, and also my IM away message, my wap , and for good measure send the post via email and sms.
That will cover all of my connects through the *natural* way they like to communicate with me. This will make blogging invisible, as some have been preaching about lately.
Article comments
1 - Anil
"I need my current blog tool to help me out. It should accept posts that I send through email and my cellphone."
You know TypePad does that right now, right? And there are services to IM and SMS people when you update, like LiveMessage:
http://www.messagecast.net/brochure/prod_blog_home.html
2 - Mac Diva
Hashim, for now, most blogging is still tied to the computer, the blog software and the API client. One of my hopes when I bought an up-to-date WiFi enambled PDA, the Tungsten C, was to blog from it. No such luck. The blogging APIs have yet to catch up with either Palm or Wintel PDA software. Short messages can be sent by cellphone, but you can't edit or see what they look like. Besides, typing on one is a pain in the posterior. I look forward to a time when blogging becomes less computer dependent, but it has not arrived yet.