I like my iPad, but it definitely drags me away from the computer at home. It's great for browsing content online and for reading things, but it is just inadequate for writing more than the most terse notes. It also is a truly sucky tool for blogging. The usual Blogger editing page doesn't work properly in Safari on the iPad, and it's basically impossible to post pictures. So, in iPad style, I bought an app that makes it almost bearable, but really doesn't remotely approach the functionality I have on Blogger right now in a browser. One thing that has kept me blogging over time is the phenomenon of reading things online and then blogging about them at the time. This is just plain hard to do on the iPad, so I keep seeing things and saying I need to blog about them. But then it never happens. I'm going to try to do better.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
iPad - Natural Enemy of the Blog
I like my iPad, but it definitely drags me away from the computer at home. It's great for browsing content online and for reading things, but it is just inadequate for writing more than the most terse notes. It also is a truly sucky tool for blogging. The usual Blogger editing page doesn't work properly in Safari on the iPad, and it's basically impossible to post pictures. So, in iPad style, I bought an app that makes it almost bearable, but really doesn't remotely approach the functionality I have on Blogger right now in a browser. One thing that has kept me blogging over time is the phenomenon of reading things online and then blogging about them at the time. This is just plain hard to do on the iPad, so I keep seeing things and saying I need to blog about them. But then it never happens. I'm going to try to do better.
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