Treo blogging seems to be all the rage with the really cool kids these days. Eric has been posting a lot of tips for how to do it right. I figured since I had already jumped on the podcast bandwagon so I might as well give this a try.

It's a little different for me since my Treo can't go online. But that's o.k. I don't really have a desire to live blog something and post from the scene. To get a post from the Treo to the site, I just sync to the laptop and paste the text into Ecto for editing, formatting and links.

So far I like it. Typing on the little thumb keyboard is not that hard. I'm not that great a typist on a real keyboard so I'm probably just as fast on the Treo.

The great thing is that it allows me to work on a post in circumstances where I would have just been doing nothing. I can write while waiting in the car for the kids to get out of school. The hour my son is in karate class has become productive. I have even blogged in the bathroom. I promise there will be no live blogging from there.

There is also no pressure to finish a post and get it posted. Ecto is great to work in, but that "Publish" button is always there demanding to be clicked. I can keep going back to it until I think it's done. I have discovered that there is a limit to how long one note can be. But it's not that big a deal to combine multiple Palm notes into one post.

So Treo Blogging will join regular blogging and podcasting and I'm not far from having Hold the Mayo consume every moment of free time I can find!

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 10:32 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment