A blog by Ben Gilman

Just found Automattic’s iPhone WordPress blogging application buried in the lower half of the App Store Top 50 so thought I should give it a go.

The application is immediately very usable and like many of the better-developed iPhone apps, more feature rich then I’d expected. It’s also proving pretty stable - a quality not yet evident in all the apps! Adding that picture up there was very easy - it’d have been even easier with a cut+paste function though It works with Wordpress.com hosted or self-hosted blogs.

Still, some of my best blog post ideas come to me when i’m away from my computer so hopefully this app might be the tool to at least stop me forgetting them! That might be all though - the iPhone keyboard is good for many things but maybe penning long blog posts won’t prove to be one of them…

Check the WordPress application out in the store or Wordpress.org - it’s currently sitting pretty at rank 30 - one below the not-so-criticaly-acclaimed AOL Instant Messenger app. iPhone iChat anyone?