Last night I created the required email account and tried to get it to work. It appeared to find the posts, but they never showed up. I went to bed after a while with no progress.

Tonight I managed to notice that the posts had showed up, but were pending. That doesn’t work for what I wanted, but I knew I was closer. I discovered if I created a user and made it’s email the email I’d be sending from, I could make the updates work. I did it! I got it to post via email with no need to approve a pending post!

The email subject is the post title, and the contents make the post.

What I want to do is always update only my blog, then have the blog push the updates to Twitter and Facebook. Eventually I’d want to harvest all the comments on Facebook and Twitter and place them here too. I can already do that with Twitter. Sounds great, right?

I ran into a problem: I can’t send an email via my phone without using data, and I don’t have a data plan, and I can’t send a text message with a subject.I can send a text, but the post will have no subject, and all that will get sent to twitter is a bare bit.ly link. Not very useful.

Alas, I am foiled again.

I also discovered Steampunk Tales, which has released their fourth issue. It is a short story anthology that you can buy as a DRM-free PDF (FTW!) or as an app for your iPhone/Touch, and other platforms. This ‘penny dreadful’ is very affordable, thanks to digital distribution. (Discovered via Writing Across Worlds)

The Extraordinary Contraptions have a new album out. Read about it!

Comics fans! How about a steampunk comic called Grandville: “A Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard Scientific-Romance Thriller.”

In the Steam Theater this week is a trailer for The Clockwork Girl, along with an article that accompanies the video. A very excellent video, at that.