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[Blogmailr][1], a new service from [Telligent][2] that allows you to post to your blog via email, launched last week. I've been playing with Blogmailr for a few days now and I have to say I'm impressed. If all goes well I'll be posting this using Blogmailr.
Blogmailr takes advantage of the Metablog API and uses it's own e-mail parsing tools to pull out your post, images, and tags and then posts that info to your blog via the Metablog API.
to get it working you sign up for an account, tell Blogmailr your blog address and login information and you're done. Blogmailr then generates an email address something@blogmailr.com. Just add that address to your address book with the handy vcard Blogmailr generates and you're ready to go.
Write your blog post however you normally do and instead of logging into your admin section, you just email it to your Blogmailr.com address.
Blogmailr supports most major blogging platforms. If yours isn't on the list there's a very good chance it doesn't support the Metablog API, which means there isn't a whole lot Blogmailr can do about it.
The range of support varies somewhat by blogging service, most allow file uploading via email attachments and tags give in the form <code>[tags: tagname1, tagname2]</code>
The usefulness of Blogmailr will depend somewhat on your work habits. Many people live in their email program and it's always open which makes Blogmailr an attractive way to post without having to open a new browser window. But the big appeal here seems to be posting from mobile devices. I haven't used it myself, but there's already a lot of buzz around the web attesting to how easy Blogmailr makes mobile posting.
Which means I could probably post to Monkey Bites from, say, Tahiti, just as easily as this apartment. Hmm.
Blogmailr is free, but will leave a "posted with blogmailr" badge at the bottom of your post. There is also a commercial version available. The Single-User commercial account is $2.99/mo per-user. Blogmailr asks that if you make more than $300/mo from your blog that you use the commercial license.
[1]: https://www.blogmailr.com/
[2]: http://telligent.com/
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