My family often complains that I don't send them enough photos of my kids. I want to send them photos, but it's always at the bottom of my list and so it rarely happens. This weekend I decided to do something about it. My goal was to be able to take photos and video from my mobile phone and have them post automatically to a blog. For me, if it isn't automatic, it isn't going to happen.
I chose Vox as my service because it's simple to use and allows for private sharing among friends and family. As with most mobile posting services, Vox works by sending photos and video from a mobile device using a special email address. Once I put the email address into my phone's address book, posting to my account was as easy as sending any other message. The media shows up as a blog post within a few minutes or less.
I've found that video is the best media for this workflow because I can explain what it's about by saying something while I'm capturing the video. Then there's no need to go back and edit picture titles or descriptions.
The web feed readers I used to subscribe to my blog didn't show the multimedia posts for some reason. It's a pretty big shortcoming for people in my network who like to use feed readers. I'm guessing that it's just a glitch that will be fixed in the future.
There are other services that do similar things, like Blogger, LiveJournal, and Photobucket. Take one for a spin and tell us about your experience!