Embassy Theatre - Wellington

This is pretty sweet - plush leather seats, a giant screen, and you should see the bathroom! I know you're not supposed to use phones at the theater, but there should be an exception for blogging.

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Diggin' Mobile

So far, the blogosphere's response to Blogger Mobile has been glowing! Here are a few folks I've found talking about it:

Der Amerikanische Urlauber:

"So I got myself all set up and have the addresses in my cell phone. This is fantastic. Now I can go around snapping a picture or two each day of my trip and send it to this blog and post some commentary or whatever. I'm going to turn this thing into a little travel journal. Follow Joe's travels through Italy... Oh man that's really cool! Yay for modern technology!"

ThoughtLab:

"The feature is extremely convenient. Just send a picture, some text, or both to go@blogger.com. Blogger actually makes a new blog, then sends you a message back... I merged back to ThoughtLab and my initial post was automatically moved to ThoughtLab (from the autogenerated blogspot blog). I also typed in the URL of the autogenerated blog that I received in my message from Blogger, and I got a "not found" message, so the autogenerated blog is automatically deleted. Slick."

InsideGoogle:

"They should be ashamed of themselves. This should be at least a ten step process!"

"It really is that simple. Get on your phone and send an email to go@blogger.com. Done. Whatever you sent, text, picture, or both, get posted to a blog (the email subject is the post title). It's that easy. Either just post, and do nothing else, or set up a full-fledged post-to-your blog system, or anything in between."

Nathan's also stoked about the Jingle!

"As good as the new Blogger Mobile is, I find myself obsessed with its catchy jingle: 'Snap a photo and type some text; send it to Blogger and we'll do the rest!.' Now we know who's responsible for the li'l ditty: Grant Shellen. Grant's got a few words on the ditty on his blog, as well as the world exclusive extended version (yeah, its 15 seconds; so what?)."

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I'm lost - don't send help

Driving on the left side is easier than I imagined. But it's done nothing to improve my sense of direction. I'm sure things will work out.

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Iron mushrooms in Auckland

Conveniently I'm in New Zealand on the day Blogger Mobile launches. Hope to share more on-the-go slices of my trip this way.

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We've Gone Mobile

Blogger Mobile has launched! When you send an email or MMS to go@blogger.com we set up a new blog for you and post your photo and text to it. You can keep the blog we set up for you or switch everything over to your existing blog by signing in to go.blogger.com with the code we send to your phone.

It just so happens that we have agents in the field right now. Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager is on a trip to New Zealand using his camera phone to send photos and captions to mobiletoe.blogspot.com. Chris Wetherell, Blogger UI Engineer is touring with his band in Europe and documenting the experience at photable.blogspot.com. (Yes, one of our engineers is also a rock star.) I'm going to tell them to switch their posts to publish to this blog. Why? Because we can!

Also, it's important to note that Blogger Mobile is the first-ever Blogger feature that ships with it's own jingle. Grant Shellen whipped it up for us.


The comic strip art on go.blogger.com is by Phil Pascuzzo, he does lots of neat illustration and design stuff. With the jingle and the comic-style illustration Blogger Mobile is an all together highly professional endeavor. For more information see: On-the-Go with Blogger Mobile, They Are Among Us, and Blogger Mobile FAQs.

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Various Items of Interest

Belle de Jour book spotted! (The book is based on the blog.)
Newsweek calls Blogging a 'blood sport' in Japan.
Steve Jobs should be a blogger.
Backpack is a cool new web thingy and this is their blog.
How long has the cat had his own blog?

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Lord Vader, I Presume

Not sure if this is a case of impersonation or if Lord Vader has in fact decided to avail himself of our services. In either case, The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster is a good read.

Boba Fett is one of the few people with whom I will share a meal. He was horribly disfigured by acid years ago, and I feel we hold a bond in common in that respect. He has never so much as winced at the ghastly noises that come through my ventilator while I chew, because he is a gentleman.

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