LaserBlog.com » Moblogging http://laserblog.com Brainwaves from the edge. Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:23:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 The Old Moblog http://laserblog.com/2008/04/23/the-old-moblog/ http://laserblog.com/2008/04/23/the-old-moblog/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:30:12 +0000 laserone_ http://laserblog.com/2008/04/23/the-old-moblog/ Last night I uplaoded THREE YEARS of my life; my old TextAmerica moblog backup. Want to take a peek?

http://flickr.com/photos/laserone/2435333091/

]]> http://laserblog.com/2008/04/23/the-old-moblog/feed/ 0 Shozu http://laserblog.com/2006/12/23/shozu/ http://laserblog.com/2006/12/23/shozu/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:11:55 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2006/12/23/shozu/ I love Shozu. I kinda miss my old moblog, but it’s no fun when the community is dead and nobody ever looks at your pix. At flickr.com, you always have ppl looking at your pix, so it’s more fun. So now I just use the tag “moblog” on my flickr account as my moblog.

Shozu allows me to upload pix to flickr, from my phone, with less steps than if I just emailed it. Also, it auto-reduces the size for the web so that I don’t have to, saving me MANY clicks on the phone. But for some reason, tonight, it’s not reducing for web even though it ABSOLUTELY is set to do that. Shozu has been SO buggy. It was on my nokia 3650 and it is now on my nokia N80 (both symbian phones). It’s always freezing up causing me to have to reset my phone. When I’m not using shozu or uninstall it, this never happens. Today a few times I turned off the phone, popped out the battery, waited a few minutes, restarted, and when I went into shozu, the first thing it did when I tried to call up an image was say “memory low, close some other programs before using shozu” or something like that. But there were no other programs running. I’m going to uninstall it and then resintall it. What a pain. I hate to have set it all up again. But I love it, just wish it wasn’t so buggy. From googling around, I see it’s not just me.

I could just email the photos straight from the phone, but it’d take many steps to reduce the image size and send. Shozu is like one or just a few clicks and it does all that (when it’s working right). The other thing I like about shozu is that shozu caches your images on the server until you delete them from the phone so that you can then upload a pic to another site or email address without incurring the cost of another upload. Shozu just signals the server without uploading the image, and tells the server to forward on the image to the second place. If it weren’t for these features, I’d try other moblogging services. Nakama.ca is really good because they have no software to munge up your phone, but then you don’t have the features I mentioned (although I will be taking another look at nakama, as I’m sure they are always adding features).

Ok, sleeping pill kicking in, so I gotta go. :)

Updated to add: I cleared most of the pix off the phone and it’s still freezing up.  Guess I am going to have to uninstall/reinstall after all.  Ugh.  I need to go to bed!

]]> http://laserblog.com/2006/12/23/shozu/feed/ 1 Moblogging http://laserblog.com/2006/12/02/moblogging-2/ http://laserblog.com/2006/12/02/moblogging-2/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:42:38 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2006/12/02/moblogging-2/ My original “moblog” is pretty much dead.

I love the moblog, but the website it’s on, has kinda died, lost a lot of it’s clients, it’s community, and therefore it’s interactive-ness. I’ll keep it up, since it’s kind-of a diary spanning almost 3 years.

The NEW moblog is flickr. Flickr.com is one of my two favorite photo sites. What’s great about it is the community. You always get people looking at your photos and commenting on them. I tag my Moblog photos w/ the tag “moblog”, so to see my current moblog, you go here whereas to see all my flickr photos you just go here.

I still archive my best and favorite photography at fotki.com because it’s also one of the best sites and I like the Folder & Album setup they use. But for interactiveness and fun and exposure, I like flickr. So, to peek into my moblogging, keep an eye on my flickr photos tagged “moblog“.

]]> http://laserblog.com/2006/12/02/moblogging-2/feed/ 1 Marmot Moblog http://laserblog.com/2004/12/21/marmot-moblog/ http://laserblog.com/2004/12/21/marmot-moblog/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:55:11 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/12/21/marmot-moblog/ M. is moblogging his trip to Toronto this week:
http://marmot.textamerica.com

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/12/21/marmot-moblog/feed/ 0 iPod moblog http://laserblog.com/2004/07/23/ipod-moblog/ http://laserblog.com/2004/07/23/ipod-moblog/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:54:46 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/07/23/ipod-moblog/ There’s an ipod moblog, show us your ipod!
http://ipods.textamerica.com/

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/07/23/ipod-moblog/feed/ 0 Moblog Editors Pick http://laserblog.com/2004/06/08/moblog-editors-pick/ http://laserblog.com/2004/06/08/moblog-editors-pick/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:23:26 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/06/08/moblog-editors-pick/
Textamerica made my moblog “editors pick” for the day! Thank you Textamerica! My moblog is chock-full of pics and video from my trip to the Stanley Cup game last night.

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/06/08/moblog-editors-pick/feed/ 0 Textamerica http://laserblog.com/2004/04/22/textamerica/ http://laserblog.com/2004/04/22/textamerica/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:38:57 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/04/22/textamerica/ Textamerica, THE place to moblog, got a compliment on nationwide television the other day. Cat on Call For Help (on TechTV) recommended Textamerica Moblogging to a caller, and she said that “it’s the best one” and “they know what they are doing on this website“.

I think everyone should have a moblog. :D (mine)

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/04/22/textamerica/feed/ 2 Moblog Sadness http://laserblog.com/2004/04/13/moblog-sadness/ http://laserblog.com/2004/04/13/moblog-sadness/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:24:50 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/04/13/moblog-sadness/ Man oh man. I wonder what’s wrong w/ my moblog? :( It’s still down and so far nobody has answered my message board question. I know they are busy and so I’m not mad. I’m just anxious: I’m so afraid that I’ll lose my entries. It’s not the images, I have all the images. You can back up the images, but not the entries, not the html. It’s just that since it’s like a diary, w/ all my own commentary, I can replace the images, but not the notes. I can’t find a way to back up the entries themselves. I’m afraid to mess w/ the temmplate for fear of erasing the moblog.

Waaaa!

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/04/13/moblog-sadness/feed/ 0 Funny Public Moblog http://laserblog.com/2004/04/02/funny-public-moblog/ http://laserblog.com/2004/04/02/funny-public-moblog/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:47:19 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/04/02/funny-public-moblog/ Funny public moblog:
In The Can; Bathroom Self Portrait: http://inthecan.textamerica.com/

]]> http://laserblog.com/2004/04/02/funny-public-moblog/feed/ 0 Textamerica new features http://laserblog.com/2004/04/01/textamerica-new-features/ http://laserblog.com/2004/04/01/textamerica-new-features/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:59:57 +0000 laserone_ http://miamyselfandi.com/2004/04/01/textamerica-new-features/ Awesome.

When I logged in today at my moblog, at Textamerica.com, I noticed that there are new features. For $5.99 a month you can remove ads (and support the best moblog community out there!) and you can even now have password protected moblogs! That’s great for certain people, people who want to exchange cam phone images but are not on the same cellular network, people who want to share their children’s pictures w/ grandma, etc. That’s $9.99 a month.

I’m probably going to sign up for the ad-free thingy. I don’t mind the ads, but I’d like to support TA.

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