Blogging on the run – ups and downs of iPhone blogging
By Troy on Jan 4, 2009 in Social Media
You might expect blog posts written with the wordpress app for the iPhone to be relatively short and sweet, however for me, my iPhone posts are oftentimes the most verbose of my postings.
Why is this?
For one, if I even consider blogging on the iPhone, I generally have a lot of time on my hands. It’s not that the app or process is difficult, it’s just that if I am out and about and have time to blog, it’s for a reason. I must be stuck someplace like an airport or conference I’m not interested in for the idea to blog on the iPhone even to cross my mind.
But blogging from the iPhone does have a down side for me. I like to publish a post after writing, and many times I have written a fairly impressive post and then reviewed it on the iPhone screen, only to later find numerous spelling errors that I overlooked when tapping it out on the wordpress iPhone app.
If you have you wordpress blog automatically send out a tweet in Twitter , you can have hundreds if not thousands of people read your blog entry before you find all of your spelling errors. And a blog with a lot of errors is not only hard to read, it is also unprofessional.
So after a few months of occassional blogging on the iPhone, I am forced to think back to high school paper writing, and the teacher who said write it out, let it set, then edit and revise. The best process for me when using the iPhone for blogging is writing the post, saving it as a draft and then reviewing and publishing later.
In fact that is what I did with this post!
Any comments from other bloggers? Do you use remote posting for short posts or have you written a longer post on your iPhone or even via email? Do you publish right away, or does it depend merely on the time-sensitive nature of the post?
Interesting.. I have the WordPress app on my iPhone but have yet to use it. I was extremely excited about its release but really haven’t *needed* to use it cuz I’m usually only in blogging mode while at my laptop.
If I come up with blogging thoughts I usually upload them via Evernote to my blog notebook for later consumption.
Thanks for the response, Andy. One little thing I found out as a direct result of this post. With the iPhone WordPress app, you can save as a “Local Draft” or “Draft.” If you want the draft to be available on your web admin to your blog, then you have to choose “Draft” – local draft only saves it on the iPhone itself.