Mobile Blogging System

The mobile blogging system involves remotely updating a web site from a mobile phone. It represents an attempt to bring reality closer to the end-user via sending text messages to a Web site. Today in Africa communication is hampered by lack of adequate physical infrastructure this may include: poorly constructed road networks, limited access to electricity and unreliable telecommunication infrastructure. These issues affect the coverage of news events that occur in remote and highly insecure areas. With today´s mobile phones almost anyone can create text messages about an occurrence in their environment in order to deliver news worthy stories in real time as they unfold. This paper documents the work done on creating a service that makes it possible to share news events with the world by allowing a user to submit, delete and edit text messages from a mobile phone and these actions are automatically reflected on a Web site on the Internet. It is noted that the outcome of the work undertaken was successful and useful. This service only deals with text messages and it is recommended that more work should be done to incorporate other forms of multi-media for example pictures, sound and video.