From mail to blog

ONE OF THE MOST useful pieces of functionality in my life is my ability to post to my weblog in the dark without a computer. For example, this short post is coming to you from the glow of a Nokia E90 screen illuminating a small keyboard while I sit on the edge of a bed with a sick little toddler. She sleeps quickly on big beds but tends to roll off them so I bring my ultraportable office to her and life goes on. Downstairs in the sitting room, my wife occasionally brings her Shockwave work home and she carries a 17" laptop onto the sofa to move vectors on scenelines. After a month of that kind of work, she wants to ban laptops from sitting rooms because you cannot converse while editing key frames. Back to my ultraportable window to the blogosphere. From experience, seen since 2003 when I started services with Six Apart, I have emailed hundreds of blog items to InsideView.ie. Whenever someone comments on my blog, my phone vibrates and shows me what they've said. If I want to kill the comment or block a spammer, the email gives me the deep link to pare back as I wish. The ultraportable E90 computer (it's too big for most people to consider it a phone) also aggregates  a minimum of 1300 blog posts on my phone for offline viewing on aircraft, in rural areas or on the side of a bed with a sick kid. I think it's important to mention these capabilities because so many people assume a browser is the first screen to the internet. We know the text-based two-colour screens are the way the connected universe can always be sure of communications. The sooner I get ultraportable computers (i.e., smartphones) into the hands of my Media Virgins, the better our connected world will be.

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