Sometimes Solutions Are Right In Front Of Your Nose.
In my review of the iPhone, I wrote this: "Can't photo blog with it. Why? No MMS. Why no MMS support? There are some good reasons posted here, but I'm missing the point."
Well...
Stumbling around the web this morning, I found this post about the new iMac - Can't be too thin. I might have skipped merrily on by, if it weren't for these words at the bottom of the post: Sent from my iPhone. That's the default signature that is set on the iPhone and this was a Typepad blog.
Hmm... I thought.
Maybe I allowed my Blogger focus to get in the way of trying something we had already installed on The JottBlog Experiment. To make posting to a Wordpress Blog from Jott function properly, we installed the Postie plugin.
I went in and looked at the Postie settings and found everything seemed like it might work. So, I just took a photo of the screen and sent an email to the JottBlog email address.
Voila... it worked. Piece of cake. What took me so long? Here's the first Photo post from the iPhone. That was taken in my dark office, so i found a better photo on my iPhone and did it again, just to be sure it worked. It did. ;)
You can bet there is a brand new photo blog in my future. 'Cause I want to be just like Teresa Boardman and Bob Carney.
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UPDATE: with major props to Bob Carney.
He is using email to Flickr to post to Wordpress.com and this will work with any blog platform that Flickr.com can access. This includes: Blogger, Typepad, Moveable Type, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Manila, Atom, Blogger API enabled, MetaWeblogAPI enabled and Vox blogs. I'm betting this is how the post above was done in Typepad. Flickr accepts the iPhone email with photo attachment [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/40518938@N00/1065004020/ ]and can give you a secondary email to use to post to the blog of your choice. This is a double win, since you can then tag your photos in Flickr as well. Nicely done, Bob!
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