Mobile Blogging on your iPhone

Posted by noemi on May 16th, 2011 in Blog basics, Technical, Tips, Word Press |

Mobile blogging – an essential component in your blogging life.While you can always carry your laptop around for mobile blog posts, sometimes there may come a time when all you have is your iPhone, and the situation will call for a quick way to blog. It may be because of a breaking news that’s worth blogging or simply an error in a previous post that got passed your proofreading and must be corrected as soon as possible lest the Internet sees it first and correct you in droves. It is therefore essential that you have iPhone apps that you can quickly use to create a post or edit existing ones.

WordPress and TypePad [iTunes links] are the currently the only major blogging platforms that have their own iPhone apps. These apps are both excellently-crafted and gives you all that you need for quick and dirty blogging on your iPhone if you’re using their services. Not using wordpress or TypePad? Shozu should save your day.

Shozu’s iPhone app supports Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, LiveJournal, Vox, Freewebs, moblog, and even the metaweblog API. It also supports twitter, facebook, flickr and photobucket for the social and media aspects of your blogging. Used with iPhone’s built-in Notes and Voice Memos app for quickly taking notes, a decent Internet connection, these three essential blogging apps for your iPhone will assure you that you can be mobile and still take care of your content. Of course, you also have with you a very capable web browser, Mobile Safari to complete your mobile blogging arsenal.