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Mobile blogging is an arse: Continued

Alfie from MoBlogUK knows a think or two about mobile blogging and MMS. Whilst he agrees that mobile blogging can be an arse, he also points out that it could (and can) be simple (they use MMS heavily and effectively at MoBlogUK.

Link: Alfies’ Blog » Blog Archive » SMS Text News - Mobile blogging can be a total arse

The trick to using MMS as an effective method of mobile blogging is to have an authentication/registration system as standard on the backend of whatever system/host you want to blog to. i.e. why not write a wordpress script that accepts an anonymous MMS, sends you an SMS asking you to confirm your username and password, and upon validation then allows any further MMS’s to be published directly to your blog. Not a hard thing to write any Wordpress coders lurking out there.

Well I’d definitely use something like this…

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