Blog From Your Cell Phone
Posted 02/28/2007 at 4:53am
| by Susie Ochs
BONUS TIP: Moblog Menu
Other services besides Blogger will let you blog sans Mac. Here are some of our favorites:
Buzznet (www.buzznet.com) lets users post blogs, pictures, and video from their computers or mobile phones. If you log in with your MySpace username and password, the site will automatically import your MySpace profile and pictures. Free users get up to 120 posts per month, and Premium accounts ($5 per month, with discounts for multimonth memberships) get 250 posts and no banner ads. The interface is a clunky and unintuitive, though.
Audblog (www.audblog.com) is a service that allows you to call a number from any phone and record a post as if you were leaving a voice mail. Then your blog-it supports Blogger, Radio, MovableType, and LiveJournal-is updated with an Audblog icon and a link to your recorded audio. The first post is free, and then it's $3 per month for up to 12 four-minute posts. Additional blocks of 12 posts are $3.
Hipcast (www.audioblog.com) also lets you post audio blogs (up to 60 minutes!) via phone, or upload audio files up to 100MB from a Web browser. It also supports three flavors of video uploading: You can record in your browser window with a webcam, upload a file from your digicam, or email a video from your mobile phone. Podcasters can use the service to create MP3 files and generate an RSS feed that's ready for iTunes. After a free seven-day trial, tiered pricing starts at $5 per month.
Winksite (www.winksite.com) is more than just a moblog service-it lets you create up to five sites that can be easily viewed on a mobile phone. You can trick out your site with "channels" including a blog (either one hosted on Winksite or a feed of your existing blog), RSS feeds, surveys, a guestbook, even a forum or a chat room. There are a dizzying number of options, and if you turn on the Mobile Admin option under Site Settings: Advanced, you can manage your site's content right from your phone. Best of all, everything is free.

Use Winksite's premade channels to make a site that can be viewed on a phone or in a Web browser.