“Send to Blog” is one of those fantastic inventions that could revolutionise our world as we know it if it only worked. But it doesn’t. Well, I am not being entirely fair here. It does work sporadically, from time to time, on certain occasions. When conditions are favourable. On all other occasions this wonderful and immensely useful Sony Ericcsson mobile phone feature becomes annoyingly useless, failing over and over and over again.

What sparks those “other occasions” is unclear and surrounded by a cloak of mystery, but generally moving from one place to another, or even change in weather conditions seems to affect this feature in a nastily negative way.

So what is this wonderful and yet so annoyingly useless feature about? It is about posting pictures from your mobile phone directly to your blog, without having to create an email, or MMS message, simply take your picture, select “Send to Blog” from the menu – and the picture will appear in your blog on the web straight away.

Instead of sending MMS messages to go@blogger.com to post to a mobile blog, Sony Ericsson users post using the built-in BlogThis! feature. What does this difference mean? For regular mobile users, the mobile alias connects the user to the mobile blog. For Sony Ericsson users, each phone has a distinct device ID, which associates the device with the mobile blog.
Using Blogger with Your Sony Ericsson Mobile Device

To blog a picture you just took:
-) Take a picture and select ‘Send’ > To blog.
-) Add a title and text, and press ‘Publish’ to send the picture to your blog.
(Sony Ericsson support pages)

Now, what we have here is a 3-Tier level of responsibility, or, to be more precise, lack of it. 3 parties are involved: Google, Sony Ericsson and mobile phone network provider. Google and Sony Ericsson don’t seem to offer any help/support regarding persistent failures of this feature. My mobile phone network provider doesn’t even mention it. I assume this is because, as far as each of those parties is concerned – their “bit” is working perfectly: my mobile phone works without glitches, Google’s services are up and running, and all the services my mobile phone network provider supplies me with, including internet connection, are operational too. So the problem actually doesn’t exist, everything is groovy, dandy, hanky dory and all.

Potential solution to the problem: reboot your phone. This fixes the issue quite often, the downside is by rebooting your phone every hour or so You are substantially increasing the risk of damaging your mobbie all together. But what the heck, Live and Be Judged by amount of mobile devices you went through in this life.