Okay, maybe I can use iPad here

Okay, maybe I can use iPad here

So one of the things occupying my brain lately is the possibility that the iPad could turn out to be a decent ink blogging tool (http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/02/04/fastfinga-breaks-my-resolve-ink-blogging-for-iphone-and-ipad). One of my ink blogging proteges Jezlyn dug up an iPhone app (http://jezlyn.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/fastfinga-iphone-app-iphone-ink-blogging/) called FastFinga (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fastfinga/id320090110?mt=8) that does a good job turning handwriting to image. Well, not for my handwriting but Jezlyn's looks great, almost as good as when she uses an active digitizer.

I've been practicing a bit, but my style is so dependent on a pressure sensitive active digitizer, large screen, line smoothing, and resting my palm on the screen that I'm unable to ink very well on the small iPhone. Might be able to do it on the larger iPad though.

With a full-sized stylus like the Pogo Sketch (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/b8dd/) and a glove like SmudgeGuard (http://www.smudgeguard.com/) to block contact with the side of my hand, I might be able to squeeze a decent inking experience on the iPad. More importantly, folks without my limitations might find it an easy way to get into ink blogging. Thus, I'm left with a dilemma: get an iPad and try to promote this avenue to ink blogging, or stick to my guns and risk being left behind if it catches on.

Granted, it's highly doubtful people will suddenly start ink blogging just because they have iPads, but if it's possible, well, shouldn't I be at the forefront in making it happen? And how sad would it be if ink blogging did finally leave the station and I wasn't on the same train as everyone else? I may be facing evolution or extinction.
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