An addendum to the last in this series…

If you are going to use your smart phone to live blog, go to the options/preferences and disable the pictures/graphics in your phone’s web browser. This will make everything faster and will format your post site in a way that fits your browser window. Many blogsites have graphics that smart phone browsers can’t assimilate. Eliminating them helps you a great deal. The speed it picks up will also help you.

Also, enable your cookies and log into your site’s administration area, so that your site recognizes you. This will help you to comment in the comment thread from your phone without having to jump through the security hoops everyone else has to navigate.

An alternative to posting through your web browser is by sending email to your website. Blogger and WordPress have options for this. You set up an email address that is specific to these posts. When you send a post to this address, your site picks it up and publishes it as an article. The benefit is that your phone’s email program is probably better for formatting posts than the browser interface. I did this very effectively with blogger last year. I couldn’t get my phone to interface well with blogger, but that was before I knew about turning off the graphics. Commenting was almost impossible then. When I moved to WordPress and my own domain, it wasn’t as easy to do the email option, but the browser interfaced so much better.

There is not a lot to blog about today, so I have a couple of posts set to drop throughout the day. I hope it keeps you interested, entertained and informed.

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