SMS Moblogging

SMS moblogging works on any handset that can send SMS, which is virtually every mobile phone nowadays. You write the blog entry on the mobile phone and send it via SMS to a service phone number provided by a moblog service. The moblog service interprets the received SMS message and posts it to your blog. You can be identified by the caller ID or an ID code embedded in the SMS message. A good example of such an SMS moblog service is Txtsolutions (http://blog.txtsolutions.com). Txtsolutions can host your blog on its own site, or post your blog entries to your account in a list of supported third-party blog hosts.
If the SMS moblog service posts the blog entries to a third-party blog host on your behalf, it needs to know your login information on that third-party site.

Despite the meager prerequisite of the handset, SMS moblogging has some major drawbacks. First is the nagging 160-character limitation for SMS. Second, even if you are laconic enough to squeeze each of your posts into fewer than 160 characters (not words), SMS moblogging is text-only. Third, you need to pay extra to the SMS moblog service provider. For example, Txtsolutions charges £0.10 for each message. This charge is in addition to your regular SMS fee (from your wireless operator) and cost for the blog hosting service if it applies.