The iPad talk has been all about browsing, reading, watching, listening, and gaming, but how about blogging? The biggest limitation so far is not the keyboard (which really is wonderful, though not exactly "a dream to type on"), but the lack of iPad-based apps. This may change in a matter of hours, but the Wordpress app is just an inflatable iPhone app. I haven't tried it yet (I'm not a client), but I bet the Squarespace app appears a little more fluid.

Given the ability of the iPad to store and display photos, videos, quotable ePub format books, and Safari bookmarks, it should be simpler to share these things via blogging. The best solution I've found so far is to use Posterous, which let's you post to blogs (and Twitter, Facebook, etc.) via email. For this post, I'm trying to include a photo in a blog post by selecting an image from the iPad photo library and the "share by email" option. If this works, it could be an adequate work-around until the developers get robust blogging apps up and running.

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The above was all via iPad.  Editing after sending to Posterous seems impossible on the iPad, so this update is from the dear old laptop.

Ben Parr at Mashable is right about the current limitations on iPad blogging (for instance, it isn't easy to link to interesting articles like his).  Still, I think there will be a tsunami of apps attempting to solve some of these initial problems.  We shall see.