20 Feb 09 Wireless Blogging Works

Cellular phones are exclusively for voice call functions before. It is used in places where there are no available telephone services. But with the advancement of communication technology, several innovations on the analog cellular phones were made. If before it is only used for calling purposes, now you can used it to sent text messages through its short messaging services (SMS).

After the introduction of SMS, multimedia messaging follows, where you can incorporate images, audio contents, and animations in your text messages. Mobile e-mail services innovates the traditional PC e-mail services, interactive gaming, capturing images using embedded camera, and other services are also taking place in the cell phone industry—thanks to the different communication specialist and experts.

The latest addition for new models of cell phones is the mobile blogging where you can now update your web blog even without logging in your personal computer. All the things you can do on Internet blogging—adding a photo from your cell phone or posting your thoughts or experiences on a new neighborhood, movie, concert, game console, or coffee shop—are done through your phone.

Barak Berkowitz, the chairman and CEO of Six Apart, a California-based company that is also pioneering in cell phone blogging, commented that this new feature will surely be a click especially phone manufacturers have already introduced the wireless Internet (WAP) and camera-equipped phones. He agrees that with WAP, people will be able to post or update their blog. At the same time, they can post pictures at the spot using their camera phone.

For those individuals who are still unfamiliar with blogging, it is a home page on the Internet that takes a form of a personal journal. All the entries in the blog are compiled chronologically which contains comments and thoughts on everything; in other words, your point of view about different topic.

Traditionally, you need to create your blog from your personal computer and post it on your own website or on a blogging community. But with the introduction of cell phone blogging, you can now use the service of your mobile network to transfer blogs to the web server. In other words, you can now post your blogs even when you are in your car or you are on a remote location.

Because of this development, computer specialists prompt to develop different software suited for such purpose. A certain software is developed to let you send images and text from your cell phone directly to a website. Another one combines cell phone blogging with location-based services. In other words, you will be able to use your phone not only to locate for areas of interest on a particular place; you will also be viewing comments that other people have left on their blogs regarding such areas of interest.

Currently, different mobile networks and other small start-up pioneer in mobile blogging are hitching the net. But Internet giants such as Yahoo and Google are now planning to enter the mobile blogging arena. Yahoo is now starting to test its cell phone blogging services and will be commercially releasing it in coming months. It just only shows that cellular phone blogging is becoming popular to mobile phone users.

There you go the newest innovation for your mobile phone. It is just a manifestation that your phone is not just for calling or texting functions; it can now be used for your blogging activities.

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21 Dec 08 Defining the BlogIts Open to Interpretation

If you ask ten people to define a blog, you are likely to get ten different answers. It is generally agreed that a blog is an online journal. You write in it and you let people read it. Blogs are all over the Internet and they are popular. However, what people do with blogs differ. Some people choose to use it as a secret, personal diary, others may use a blog to stay in touch with family and even others use their blog as an advertising tool.

There is no one hard and fast rule when you start to talk about a blog. Blogs can be many different things to many different people. Here are some common ways people use blogs.

Personal blog: Most people use a blog as a personal journal or diary. Some people want to keep their thoughts secret and do not wish for others to read it. Others will give their friends and family a password so only the people they want can read it. Some people will share with the world. If you have a personal blog, you can choose to add to it whenever you feel like it. When you first start blogging, you may have a hard time adding to it everyday, but once you get the hang of it, it may become addictive. You will find that as your readership builds, you want to add more to your blog. Personal blogs are a great way to keep in touch with others.

Media blog: There are also media blogs. These contain what are called vlogs or a blog with videos. A linklog is another media blog that has links to other sites and a photoblog is one that is full of pictures. Vlogs are becoming more popular as people learn to add video clips to the Internet. These entries are usually in reversed chronological order.

Device blog: Writing a blog does not have to be just done on the computer. In fact, you can use different types of devices to add what you want to say to the world. If you have a mobile device, such as a Blackberry or cell phone, you can easily add to your blog. You can use a PDA to create a moblog. This makes keeping up with your blog easy no matter where you may be at the moment. You can even download vblogs to your iPod and watch them you have the time.

Genre blogs: If you go to a blog hosting site, you will see an index of different genres of blogs. Not everyone writes about their day or their kids! You will quickly find that you can find blogs about travel, pets (and certain pet breeds), politics, cooking, history, hobbies and more. When you know what interests you, then you can look up genre blogs and find exactly what you want to read about. You may even decide you want to blog something, too.

Business: There are many businesses and companies that use blogs to advertise their business or product. Keywords and also help point readers and customers to the business website and blogs. It is easy and very effective to use blogs for advertising a product or service. Some businesses will hire a writer that can help them use their blogs for their business effectively. Others will use people that are experts in a particular field to write their blogs. When a customer needs to know something about a product, a business blog can help.

Blogs are more popular than everthere are just different ways of using them. Whether you are interested in keeping a blog to stay in touch with family and friends or you want to advertise your business, blogs are here to stay.

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