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What Is Mobile Blogging?

Mobile blogging is an exciting phenomenon that is sweeping the blogosphere. One of the reasons why many bloggers are attracted to the medium of blogging in the first place is that they enjoy being able to make frequent updates and posts that keep all of their visitors in touch with current news and events. Mobile blogs, or “moblogs,” take this to the extreme by allowing users to post things literally as they happen through their mobile web browser (ie internet ready cellular phone). This new wave of moblogs and mobloggers keep web surfers up to date with good and bad events of importance as they occur all over the world, helping to make international communication
faster and more accurate.

How Can I Create A Mobile WordPress Blog?

While moblogging is certainly on the rise, mobile users are also in desperate need of content that can be viewed on small display screens. Until recently it has been the ‘big boys’ that have been able to mobilize their websites into viewable content on these small displays, or we could choose to pay a not so small fortune to have our websites converted into a mobile version. Now however, with the ongoing development of XHTML-MP and an awesome plugin,it’s possible for everyone to transform their own WordPress blog into content that can be displayed on mobile browsers.

• Download the WordPress Mobile Plugin from http://www.andymoore.info/download-manager.php?id=10
• Upload the plugin to your wp-content/plugins folder
• Activate the plugin. Go to Plugins > Click Activate
• Customize your site. Go to Options > WordPress Mobile (note - if you are familiar with CSS, further customization can be done)
• Visit your site using your phone’s browser

Mobile blogging is still in its infancy because the technology that makes it possible has only recently hit the global market. The first moblog technology became available over a decade ago, but it is only the past two or three years that mobile web devices have become user-friendly enough to appeal to most consumers. As camera phones, iPhones and other mobile technology become more popular, more and more bloggers are getting away from their desks and are hitting the streets. Likewise, more and more business owners will discover the incredible opportunities open to them by having a mobile version of their website online. Moblogging is becoming much more widespread that it was even a few months ago, and mobloggers are quickly attracting a lot of attention with the blogging community.

Many people feel that the limitations of blogging have a lot to do with geography. After all, there is only so current that a blog can be when you need to run home and boot up in order to update it. However, mobile blogging marks the beginning of an thrilling new era when web-based communication can happen spontaneously from any location. Moblogging devices mean that there is almost nowhere on the planet that remains off-limits for bloggers.

Mobile devices make it possible to blog from the sites where current events are unfolding, which is one of the reasons why mobile blogging has so much thrilling potential to revolutionize the blogosphere. A moblogger with a camera phone can post blog entries from, say, the foot of the podium at a presidential speech, or from the stands during the final moments of the world series. This enables bloggers to experience the same real time thrills that live television coverage provides, but in a more democratic medium. The combination of mobility and individual control that moblogging provides certainly places mobloggers on the cutting edge of today’s communications technology, and it is hard to imagine that the number and prestige of moblogs will not continue to grow in the coming years.