Using Flickr email to Photo Blog

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Of course, this isn’t something new if you have checked out Kristal Kraft’s blogs before.  She has a camera phone photo blog.  I thought this was really cool.  I tried finding a post explaining this since she is the “unofficial tech support” and found nothing.  I checked Tool Boy’s Blog for information since he knows all of the gadgets, but nothing.  I thought, how can you email a post to your blog?   I am new to all of this blogging stuff and my idle time is spent reading the master bloggers like Kristal Kraft, Teresa Boardman and Jeff Turner.    There are plenty others, but I just don’t have enough hours in a day to read them all.  (You are probably wondering, why in the heck do you need a camera phone blog in the first place?)  Well it helps with your blogging addiction… a quick fix when you start to shake.  And also, when you’re bored hanging out somewhere your wife drags you and want to be productive or atleast creative, you can tap out a quick post.

I dug around and found out that you couldn’t do email post directly with Wordpress.com but there is a work around in Flickr.  In your Flickr account (create one if you don’t have one yet) Under account settings is the “email” tab.  There, Flickr will allow you to create a photo upload email address AND a blog email address.  It will walk you through the steps to marry your blog and flickr accounts.  I created a new blog just for photos like Kristal.  So, now when I am sitting around doing nothing, I can do two things, snap off some photos and send them to my Flickr account or blog about it on my Wordpress Blog.  Either way the photo is stored on your Flickr account.  If you decide to blog about one of your pictures later, there is a “Blog This” button above each picture in Flickr.  You will be able to post directly from Flickr.

Here again to help me with my mobile craving.  I found out that Wordpress.com has a mobile version and yes you can post from your internet capable phone.  You just have to goto http://m.wordpress.com  Flickr offers the samething… just go to http://m.flickr.com  Both fit on your screen nicely and are very functional.

Hope this helps you get your blogging fix…I am sure it will mine.

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