How to blog using your mobile phone

Blogging from your mobile phone is pretty easy and serious fun. The guys at busyferret.com has taken their social bookmarking and blogging site one step further by allowing UK users to blog straight from their mobiles using MMS (Multimedia Message Service).



Is it complicated? Nope. I found it pretty straight forward. Go to www.busyferret.com and create an account for yourself. Once your account is up and running go to the "My Blog" area and add the mobile number of the phone you will be using to blog from (the number to send to will be listed there as well). You are now set-up to start mobile blogging.



Lets get blogging. You don't need to install any extra software on your phone, if you can send picture messages (multimedia messages) your phone is ready to blog - all camera phones have this facility as standard. Create a new MMS message, add an image (if you want) and next add your text. Add the title of your article followed by 3 spaces (if you use a smart phone use the carriage return). Type the body of your article. That's it. Your done. Enter the mobile number (Provided where you enter your mobile number in the "My Blog" area) and select send. Depending on the speed of your network provider your article should appear in your blogging as soon as its sent.



Optional options

The system allows you to send further instructions to busiferret.com by adding the following commands to the end of your article. You can only add the ones you need - as long as they are in the given order and for this example I have added a space between the word and the colon - it needs to be command:.

keywords : lets you add keywords / tags to your article


refurl : the reference url for your article

rating : the rating value of the article 1 - 10

type : the type of post public or private

publishto : the page you want your article posted to in your blog



Example text for a message:

This is the header

This is the body of the message and can be as long as you want as long as your MMS message is below 100k keywords :blogging,mobile,mms rating :8



Go give it a try. I'm hooked. This article was written and posted using only my mobile phone.