Six Apart’s new mobile version of TypePad now features an iPhone-optimized interface for updating your weblogs. With this application, bloggers can create and edit posts, manage comments, configure mobile settings for posting photos directly from their iPhones and view their published blogs.

In an age of secondary orality and screen literacy, I wonder how the application of this feature might function in an iPhone-clad college composition course. Imagine how meaning might be constructed collectively through the free exchange of individual ideas and expansion of audience. What would it be like to use the iPhone as a tool for participating in simultaneous, face-to-face and real-time, virtual discussion in the classroom?