iPhone :: Native Blogger App?

Just been checking out the TypePad app for iPhone, and it looks really nice. Write blog posts, post photos etc in a really nice simple interface.

Does Blogger have an app in the works? Is it time for someone else to write one using the Blogger API (no idea how good the API even is!).

The idea app would need:

1. A nice blog post editor - similar functionality to the current Blogger Rich Text post editor
2. Ability to label posts
3. Comment Moderation would be nice
4. Ability to upload photos from the iPhone camera or photo library

Have I just not spotted the right app yet? I searched for Blogger on iTunes, but no luck.

a change is as good as...

...supposedly, a holiday. but changing my blog header hasn't *quite* been as good as a holiday.
enjoy anyway!

The new header was a crop of this image taken by me a little while ago.

Slightly missing the point?

I've just got annoyed about a rss feed I read regularly via google reader.

The rss feed link goes off to an ad page, before redirecting to the actual permalink. As much as this annoys me at home, I just put up with it. However, when reading from work, the ad page is blocked by the internet filter, so I can't get to the permalink via the rss reader, and have to go to the site directly.

There are two WTF's with this:
One, the feed is for articles posted by one of the most prominet user interface usability 'experts' in the field. Two, the rss feeds from his site never contain ANY content, just the title, so we're forced to go to his site to read the article... which rather defeats the purpose of using a rss feed!

My suggestions:
- Remove the ad redirect page. Put the ads in your feed, or on the site, so those of us stuck behind a firewall with content blocking can still get there from the feed.
- Put some content in the feed. IE in Blogger (and probably most rss engines/blogging engines) there is the option to show only a short synopis version of the post, or cut off at 200 characters etc. Enough content to get people interested, but still get them to go to the permalink.

Comin at ya live from the alternative context domain

Finally got around to switching the url of this blog over to my own domain - blog.alternativecontext.com. Took a full 5 mins for my personal tech support geek (yay!) to set up the cname record on our server, then 2 secs to change the url in blogger to use a custom domain. Pretty much 100% pain free! DNS seems to have propogated already around too.

Any links to the old blogger url (http://rachmobile.blogspot.com/) *should* redirect OK. I'll check feedburner is doing its thing with the feeds still.

Once I get really organised, the next step is to set up a typo or wordpress or something blog on my domain, and migrate everything over. Can't imagine that will be pretty :(

Header Image

If anyone wondered, my header image isn't of London... it's Madrid's Plaza Mayor on a wet, dark and cold day in Easter 2008 a few weeks ago.

Just to confused any readers a bit more :)

More Madrid images are on my flickr photostream.

tag cloud

added a new tag cloud widget - thanks to phydeaux3