Since Airblogging went off the air, I’m stuck viz moblogging with direct posting to Movable Type. There are no other active services out there that do what I want, i.e., post a photo directly from my camera phone to my own site with an MT post made about it.
That’s really annoying (esp. since 6A ostensibly bought the tech for that when they bought SplashBlog a year ago), but it also means that if I want to keep folks entertained while I’m away, I need to pre-post some stuff.
Unless someone has an automagical solution to my problem here.
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Flickr! That’s how I do mine. I used to use another service (mfop2??) that also went casters up. When I changed from MT to WordPress, I had to re-create a new email-to-blog setup, but most of the settings were just copied and pasted. I email pictures from cameraphone to Flickr, and then Flickr posts them on my blog.
I think they’ve added some doodads to do things that were not previously possible, too.
I am (as anyone glancing that the page, let alone checking out the RSS feed, can tell) looking at the Flickr solution. It’s … not ideal (among other things, I don’t like the visibility of the photos on my page to be dependent on whether Flickr is up or not, and if they go tits-up or start charging for the service, suddenly I have a blog full of empty spaces, even if I actually have the originals stashed somewhere).
However, beggers may not be able to be choosers.
“You’re a bit scary, aren’t you? “
You must have found this page on Flickr…I really need to bookmark it, because finding it again to make an adjustment gets to be tedious. Hey, I bet that’s what this “weblog” thing is for.
I didn’t find that page, in fact, but was able to get to the settings I needed (not always easily visible) via the front page and it’s mention of uploading via e-mail … thence to posting to a blog, thence to auto-posting to a blog.
Except for my paranoia, it seems workable. 🙂 And I have full control over the template, so I get to use my, er, your beloved drop-shadow CSS.
And … yes, it all seems to be working. So expect Pictures along the way of our trip over the next week-plus.
The overall help for e-mail posting is here: http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/
The e-mail upload config is here: http://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/
The blog list and functionality is, I believe, here: http://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne
Snerk! “Two minds, etc.”
Those darn drop shadows. I love them so.
Oh, I think they are very nice.
Actually, other than the actual siting, Flickr is a far better setup in terms of configuration of the post and so forth. Faster, too.
I can’t get past the screen in the blog setup where it wants my mt-xmlrpc.cgi address, login, and password. No matter what combination I try, it tells me something’s amiss. 🙂
You need to use the MT API password, not your normal password.
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/beta/2005/07/xml-rpc_and_ato.html
That’s generally the password needed by any 3rd party tool using the XML-RPC. You probably have the other pieces correct.
Now … also, now that I think of it (in case you have the above correct), I ended up getting some bogus errors in the Flickr screen, too (determined bogus when I saw the test posts came through okay). So factor that in, too. 😛
That was it. Thanks!
If I told you how many times that’s hung me up on 3rd party MT stuff … 🙂
And glad to have helped you find an Airblogging replacement, too.
Ginny did some posting on this over here: http://www.blogula-rasa.com/2007/06/18/flickr-help-blogging/