I mentionned earlier that I was testing rss readers. But I am also testing remote blogging tools like the one incorporated in Diigo but also stand alone desktop ones like Blogjet ($39US)–review here (with Ecto), BlogDesk (free)–extensive review here, Elicit ($29US) lots of features, WBEditor 2 ($19US) –no service to iron out the kinks, but positive review here; and wBloggar. WBloggar (free) has just released a firefox version; I must try it to see if I like it better. A review is found here.
I’ve also tried Performancing for Firefox that integrates within FF (right click and blog/ review found here)and have just recently downloaded the Flock browser with integrated blogging options right in it. I need to fiddle a bit more with this one. It’s an impressive browser, with many options but at first try it is somewhat slow to load pages. It is only a beginning I suppose. A review of Flock beta is found here scroll down to blog editor for specific information.
The previous post was blogged with the trial version of Blogjet. For some odd reason the full text was blogged but only the intro shows up on the home page. I tried to republish to no avail. It is not that serious. The full posting can be viewed by clicking the title. When first publishing a post with an uploaded picture, the settings here at edublogs would not allow the image to go through.
Meanwhile, the stand alone blogs are much more full featured than the browser integrated ones (Firefox and Flock); but the latter are quite useful for short blog snippets. I’m hoping for my cake and the possibility of eating it too in the near future, when we can combine feed readers with full featured editing and publishing tools ! It will sure beat trying to format text in the edublog/wordpress editor which never seems to be able to remember how to stay formated.
