This is a test for an article I’m writing on MakeUseOf about VzoChat, a pretty cool application that lets you not only stream video from your mobile phone to your computer, but you can conduct conference calls with any PC or camera-enabled mobile phone across the Internet. Not only that - if you want to, you can even allow people who visit your blog to call you up and have a video chat with you right from your blog!
I have to say, that’s pretty slick. Video conference call anyone?
Here I am, blogging from the comfort of a vehicle, traveling at 70 miles per hour on the interstate. A thought struck me as I watch other passengers texting, using mobile email, or with a laptop on their laps and tethered to their mobile phone - surfing Google just like they were sitting at home. We are living in reality conceived by the sci-fi authors of the past.
In fact, this new reality has changed how writers write. I recall reading ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King, where he describes his writing process of scribbling thoughts and ideas on a piece of paper whenever and wherever the moment struck. He would jot ideas on scraps of paper, napkins, or whatever else was available. Later, he would work on his masterpiece on an archaic typewriter, locked in the laundry room to escape the chaos of family life.
For better or worse, the Internet changed the landscape for new writers. Now, we prove ourselves in blogs rather than in small independent magazines. Today, the creative forces are digitized, published, distributed and syndicated in a few mouse clicks. In the writers’ modern world, when inspiration strikes, we pull out the Smartphone and instantly add those thoughts to our blogs.
Writers like King may lament these cultural and technological changes, but as the King’s mournful Gunslinger would say, the world has moved on.
Posted in Life As a Writer, Writing for Income 
Tags: about writing, blogging, freelance writing, how to mobile blog, mobile writing
Whether or not you realize it yet, mobile blogging, otherwise known as “moblogging,” is rising as a very popular form of instant blogging that’s set to take the world by storm.
How to Moblog to Boost Your Blog Ratings
Mobile blogging isn’t complicated. In fact, regardless which platform you use, there’s very likely an integrated method to enable blogging to your blog from your cellphone. As you can see from my last post, which I used in this article, I’ve enabled my phone to fire off entries to BetterContent whenever I’ve come across anything exciting or newsworthy.
Just consider the possibilities:
As a writer, the potential for using mobile blogging in your online writing is unlimited. Moblogging provides creative writers with a new method to publish adventures and travels instantly, as they are taking place. Imagine reading each mobile entry from an adventurer as she hikes through Colorado. Picture viewing images and text from writers traveling throughout the Middle East and providing updates from Islamic societies directly from those villages. And even on a much smaller scale - you can publish updates to your camping blog while you’re on your camping trip, or updates to your travel blog as you are exploring on a safari.
Enabling Mobile Blogging
Google has made it as simple as possible to blog from your cellphone. Read my recently published article here, and in just moments you’ll be publishing updates from your own cellphone. You don’t need a data plan - Google allows mobile bloggers to publish blog updates with simple Instant Messages. It’s simple, and it allows you to update your blog far more frequently - keeping things fresh, and keeping your readers happy.
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