I haven’t messed around with Nokia’s Lifeblog service because I don’t have an Nseries device and blogging from a mobile seems somewhat limited. In any event, Lifeblog supports TypePad as a blogging platform but WordPress support is strangely missing.

PhoneBoy developed a solution for WordPress versions 2.05 through 2.2 and today his hack supports 2.3. So grab a copy of his PHP code and go nuts.

[Via Weblog Tools Collection]

It all started with Gizmodo. My realization that blogs are more than a place to rant about this or that. They are a platform for spreading the word about a topic in less than 200 words instead of three newspaper columns. The content comes fast and furious, even titalating at times when it’s so new you can smell the ink drying.

I quickly learned there is more than just Gizmodo…much more. Why did these bloggers pound out so much content? What else besides the subject matter was driving them? Were they some sadistic group of volunteers with too much time to kill?

Then I found Divester, a blog dedicated to scuba diving. More than just trip reviews - a mix of everything from the environment to accident prevention to animal trivia to interviews. Right up my alley so I started reading stories and posting comments. I rose to the top of the comment chart and figured it was time to ask my questions.

I’ll leave the answers for another time, but it comes to this: write about your passions and be passionate about writing. Did I mention you also get paid for it?

September 4th marks my official entree into that world. It’s the first (real) step in my pursuit of a creative career with my words. Much thanks to Willy and the WIN team for giving me the chance.

Peter, Steven Spielberg has you to thank for his career and the world has you to blame for avoiding the ocean. Good travels.

Story from MSNBC.

Sunday’s Calendar section of the LA Times ran a front-page piece about Peggy Archer, a self-blogging grip working in the film industry. Contrary to her regrets, I think it was a good piece for anyone interested in the no-glamour side of the business.

Here’s why after the jump.
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I’ve got to write a query letter for a project I’m submitting to Warner Brothers Animation. A little voice in my head tells me the submission stands a snowball’s chance in hell to be read in this decade, but whatever.

I fired up Word and typed the date and destination mailing address then stopped. Considering I’m a little snowball likely to melt in a pile of craptastic submissions from other riff-raff, I opened Safari for a quick Google on query letters.

I found this little gem of a site which samples, real, not-so-good query letters. Perhaps better stated: not-so-good stories (don’t blame the query letter).

Missing from the blog is an example of a good query letter which raises the question if such a thing actually exists.