Other People's Blogs

I spend too much time writing on other people's blogs and not my own. I have also been spending too much time working on the program that will make me famous (until someone makes a better version), and not enough on painting. No matter how hard I try to keep web-stuff at work, it keeps creeping in taking up my personal time too. It could have something to do with the fact that recently at work I haven't gotten much web-related work done, and most of my time is wasted helping a client fight with their tech team at home base.

What I have created, with inspiration and help from Ian and Carton is a system that will allow anyone with a (MT for now) blog to post moblog photos via email without having to set up and configure any special email parsing software on their own server. They will be able to send an email to an address on my (or anyone else who is nice enough to host the system) server. Their email will be parsed and the photo and blog content will be posted to their own blog.

The only thing they have to do is

1. Create an author with limited privileges (post, upload, and rebuild) on their blog.


2. Come to a cgi-form on the site of whoever is nice enough to host the application (for now me) and fill in some default info, such as where to save the images, do they want their posts to be saved as Draft or Publish, and of course the url of their mt.cgi script.


3. Send an email to the address I give them.

I am still testing it (I don't even have a mobile), so would rather not give out the URL to everyone until I am confident about it. If anyone has a mobile, uses Moveable Type, and doesn't mind spending time and bandwidth cost to send some test posts that may never show up on your blog, please send me your email address, and I will send you a link to enter the required info, instructions, and the email address to send your posts to.