So I’m not the only person who decided it would be cool to build a tool for blogging by phone. These guys are offering it as a commercial service, though. I hope they succeed with it.
My offer still stands to anyone who would like their own PhoneBlogger install. However, if you are just looking for a phone blogging tool that works out of the box, I recommend checking out Audblog. But, if you are willing to get your hands filthy with electrons, want total control over the blogging tool, and have plenty of free time to spare, let me know and I will help set you up.
Another entity who has taken your idea is at:
http://www.newbay.com/products_general.html
FoneBlog
Foneblog is actually pretty different and it has far more capabilities than PhoneBlogger. FoneBlog appears to allow you to post audio to your blog if your cellphone supports recording of messages. The recorded audio is sent directly from the cellphone to your blog, along with an optional photo and text.
PhoneBlogger depends on a VoiceXML gateway to record the audio. This adds more dependencies, but it also means that you can use any phone.
Also, it’s hard to know where each developer got their idea. I came up with a fairly complete vision for how PhoneBlogger would work on October 11, 2002, after reading a post on the The One True B!x’s website. Other developers may have been working on their ideas before then. Certainly, there were a couple other audio blogging tools already available that used a different approach than what I took.