The ability to use your iPhone or other handheld device to update your blog is nothing new. This new WordPress feature will actually allow you to phone in your blog. I kid you not; you will now be able to use even a landline to update your blog. This means that there is now no excuse for regularly updating your blog with any thoughts or insights that cross your mind throughout the day.
A couple of years ago ‘experts’ were predicting that blogging was finished; since that time it has exploded and is now more popular than ever. New innovations are occurring all the time and some blogs are so professionally done that people trust them more then national newspapers. You can now find blogs on any subject, but of course there is a wide range in the quality of these. Quite a few blogs show great potential but lose out because they are not updated frequently enough; maybe this new ability to phone it in will encourage more regular content for blogs like this.
In order to use this new feature on WordPress you have to enable the ‘post by phone’ function on your dashboard. You will then be given a special telephone number and code that will allow you to post to your blog. At the moment the option is only being given to wordpress.com account holders but hopefully it will be extended at a later date to other WordPress users. The possibilities with this new function are exciting; imagine being able to report directly to your blog if you observe an important event. Writing an entry after something has happened is not going to be as interesting as reporting as it happens. Hopefully this new way of adding posts to WordPress blogs will take off and we will all benefit from the extra content produced because of it.
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