Can we blog through sms?

This is an interesting question (thanks, Kartikey), I thought we could, and I googled around some, and it looks like we can.


The general idea is that you can post through phone if you have an advanced model that supports sending emails.


Here are links to the pages that tell you how to do that:


Post by phone to Tumblr


Post by phone to Posterous


Post by phone to Wordpress


Post by phone to Blogger


What happens essentially is that you get an email address to your blog, and then use your mobile web-enabled phone to do the posts. The links above suggest that you need iphone or Blackberry or something like that, but I think it is enough if you can send email from your phone.


But to blog through sms is a challenge, because when you send sms, you send it to a number- which means any basic model is enough. Is it possible? I think it is, and you will lose some of your hair trying to do it, but it is worth it.


You can do that via Facebook or Twitter: and it involves the idea of making use of RSS.


TechLifeWeb tells you how to get the RSS of your Facebook status feeds


And, here is Digital Inspiration on sending sms to Twitter.


I'll not talk about doing this with Facebook, because it seems somewhat difficult- also you get the idea that they have not standardised it, so the setup might go dead.


But blogging with Twitter via sms is easy and in about twenty minutes, you'll be up and running.


First check this twitter page to enable your phone to tweet to Twitter,


And here's the Twitter support page that tells you all about the commands that are connected with twitter and mobiles.

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The idea is that one of your Twitter accounts is your blog (sounds crazy, right? Of course it is, but not wrong).


If you go to the profile of your Twitter account you will see the orange RSS icon low down the right hand column. This is the key.


What this means is that you can take all your tweets elsewhere to a feed reader and make use of it any which way you want to.


Here's how we do this, kaming use of Tumblr.


Create a Tumblr blog, and keeping yourself logged in, click the customise button: 


Now click services, and you will see this:

Automatically import my...

What you do is this:


Copy the RSS feed of your tweets from the profile page of your Twitter account and paste it here. Done.


Now, every tweet you sms comes into this Tumblr blog, which you can tag etc, and on which your friends can comment and so on.


Since this Tumblr blog itself has an RSS, you can import it and make is automatically show up in Wordpress. Perishable Press tells you how to. This requires a bit of technical knowledge which I don't have, but I think most of you will be able to do it.


What is my choice?


I will go for Twitter to Tumblr and stop at that.


But should I? May be not, because Tumblr as of now does not let you export your blog elsewhere.


So, what I'll do is, subscribe to my Tumblr blog in Google Reader, and then use the send to feature to push it into my preferred Blogger or Wordpress blog manually. Takes some time, but if you are not educated, you have to do physical work, right?


Literate people like you can sit back enjoy, having pushed a button to let things come to your plate!