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Among the 7 Ways to Blog Using Your Mobile Phone, which we wrote back in 2009, a few of them included emailing your posts directly to your blog. But what if everything you wrote, posted and created came only from your email? Well, then you’d have Posterous.

Some say Twitter has replaced the need for RSS feeds, but we think they’ve still got some life left in them. Seemingly on the same page, WordPress.com (news, site) now supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH), a service that "pushes" updates from the 10.5 million WordPress.com blogs to RSS readers in near real-time.  

Whether you are a blogger writing for food or more established at the art of drawing ire from the Associated Press or the FTC, chances are you’re dedicated to whatever it is you blog about. As the world slowly succumbs to wireless fidelity, subway systems and municipalities at the same time, blogging is no longer limited to those on laptops at the local coffee shop or at their home office. No, blogging via mobile device is now more accessible and viable than ever.

CMSWire steps beyond the traditional boundaries of non-traditional media platforms and offers a few tools for mobile blogging. From iPhones to Blackberry to Androids and Storms, these mobile platforms can help you chronicle your adventures while on the go or from where ever you please.

WordPress.com and Twitter. What more could you ask for on a Friday? If you're familiar with the highly popular blogging tool, then chances are you know about Ping-o-Matic! The simple update service comes built-in to WordPress.com, allowing people across the 'net to know when you've updated your blog by sending an XML-RPC ping each time you post. 

It's all about content distribution these days, so the solution makes a lot of sense. This week, it made a very natural--and likely expected--move by adding Twitter to the list of sites it sends updates to. Users can choose a default tweet or customize the message, as well as override the automatic settings on a per post basis. 

Previously the tool only alerted third-party services like Yahoo! Profiles, but with the way things are going with Twitter (up, up, up!) we can't imagine a move that makes more sense. For details on activating the service, head over to their support page.