For some strange reason you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere. You only have your mobile phone at hand and you have a really rubbish Internet connection. You need to blog abou the latest thing you’ve seen. The editing interface for WordPress simply doesn’t fit in the tiny screen of your SmartPhone. Well this was me in Barcelona airport awaiting a plane to take me back home. Tech.Ed was over and I had a few comments I’d like to have thrown at my blog to see what sticks.

But nay. My iMate SP5 simply wasn’t playing ball with WordPress. So upon my return home I decided to look for other solutions. Simple as it may seem I came across BlogMailr from Telligent those nice people who make Community Server. You get assigned an email address, tell the BlogMailr system your username and password for your blog and away you go. Infact this posting itself comes uses BlogMailr as I used Google Mail to it together. [What this has told me is that Google Mail still has some improvements needed to its editor - when you specify a URL at the end of your post you cannot turn off the link and the rest of your posting becomes a URL.]

Next I’m going to try this from my phone. I’ve not yet discovered if you can tag or categorise your blog posting using BlogMailr. I would imagine a Wiki-style markup might be useful here to specify tags. But we’ll see.

And indeed this is the case! Thanks to Rob from Telligent for pointing this one out. Tag up your email posts by using, you guessed it, a Wiki style markup. So by using the markup [tags: (tag 1); (tag 2); (…)] you can add tags to the post. So this post would have needed - [tags: general; web 2.0; blogging; mobile], for example.

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