I have waited this ever since started blogging! With the new changes in blogger.com service, I can now photoblog using e-mail directly to the blogger.com. The difference to using image hosting services like flickr.com is that now the images get stored to the same server than the blog, and are therefore easy to backup and admin.
The only gripe using email photoblogging from my Nokia 6670 mobile phone is that I have not found a way to resize the image within the phone. The blogger.com uses the width argument in the img tag to make it fit to the template body text area. As I would like to use the full resolution of the camera I would prefer the service generating a scaled down version for the blog entry and just adding a link to full resolution image. Oh well, in any case this is a good improvement to the previously text-only email service.
The e-mail photoblogging is just a side-effect of larger intent to support blogging from the mobile phones. In the US, blogger.com supports now also photoblogging using MMS (Multimedia Messages). At this first stages the service is supported only in certain operators, the intent is to have this service available worldwide. Basically even with the MMS the image is sent to an e-mail address, the added trick is to associate the postings to certain blog using the sender mobile phone number information. The US MMS users can start a moblog with standard template by just sending a first photo to go@blogger com - the server supposedly replies with the new blog url and a identifier token.
With the "just-email" service, the the blog admin him/herself sets an secret email address is associated to the blog, so the service knows to which blog to add the posting.
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