today’s favorite is about blogging.
(we do allow creativity in these categories)
mine? a little mozilla firefox add-on called “read it later” - helps me bookmark new blogs, interesting posts, or websites that i wanna view at some point.
so, what’s your favorite blogging tool?
20 responses so far ↓
JudiFree.com // June 17, 2008 at 5:09 pm
my rss reader…can’t live without it!
tam // June 17, 2008 at 5:27 pm
im with judi! i just barely, after almost a year of this, started using a reader…it has simplified everything for me and saves so much time!
mandythompson // June 17, 2008 at 5:59 pm
judi: i so agree!
tam: i can’t imagine you’ve spent so much of your blogging career without a reader!
Indian Lake Papa // June 17, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I am thoroughly enjoying making Seesmic video clips on Brent’s new Blog! mama and I both squeeze into the picture. I have difficulty now typing so the video is a big help - and fun!
mandythompson // June 17, 2008 at 7:12 pm
papa: you are the BEST!
R. Kristina // June 17, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I am barely getting the basics down. Maybe I’ll learn something from your peeps comments.
Hope all’s well!
HW // June 17, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I’m loving google reader… finally started it last week, and WOW life is so much easier!
cathi stegall // June 18, 2008 at 12:22 am
I prefer my blog manager. her name is mandy mac.
Kristiapplesauce // June 18, 2008 at 3:55 am
Yeah, I got nothing.
mandythompson // June 18, 2008 at 8:52 am
dang. i was hoping for some secrets that i haven’t figured out yet. well. then.
but, YAY for feedreaders, right???
karla | looking towards heaven // June 18, 2008 at 11:05 am
Well - I was loving the Morning coffee addon for Firefox. But then I saw your cool tool, went to download it and realized I didn’t have the most recent Firefox. Downloaded it and there is no Morning Coffee available.
What it did was allow you to set pages to automatically open when you open Firefox. And you could set pages to open only on certain days — like your Wednesday posts - don’t want to miss those - so it was set in my morning coffee in case I didn’t get to my reader in time.
I’m describing it really poorly… I’m on a quest to find something similar for the new version.
But I found a cool Reminderfox tool that pops up date reminders. Perfect for someone like me who can’t remember to open her calendar.
I have Open Notebook on my browser too, but I am still trying to find time to sit down and make sense of how to best use it.
xo ~K
whittakerwoman // June 18, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Oh that is fabulous! Thanks for the tip! H
TheNorEaster // June 18, 2008 at 7:09 pm
What is an RSS Reader? Why would I want someone else to do my reading for me…? And is this RSS Reader thing the reason my stats have gone down so much lately…? Because I’m tucked away somewhere in cyberspace while all of you all try to find Tam’s socks…?
Gosh, this is confusing. I REALLY don’t know what an RSS Reader is!
mandythompson // June 19, 2008 at 6:37 pm
HAHA!
do you really not know?
look up googlereader or bloglines. they are popular rss readers.
rss readers are used to receive the rss feeds that blogs/newspapers/websites/podcasts/etc send out to cyberspace when something new comes up. think of it like radio waves, but on the internet. so, you can use your rss reader to “subscribe” to your favorite blogs - and the reader will list all your blogs and tell ya when new posts are up! makes life MUCH simpler!!!
TheNorEaster // June 19, 2008 at 9:27 pm
No, I really don’t know.
And you know what? I just read your explanation and I still don’t know.
brainteaser // June 20, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Hello!
My favorite is this newest thing at blogspot, called BLOG LINKS which “aggregates” (is that the word?) the latest posts from all your blogging friends.
It’s unlike the widget we have at wordpress which shows a single blog’s latest posts (say 5 most recent). This one gather’s the most recent from ALL the blogs you list.
I can’t describe it well enough, but if you’d go to my blogger (http://www.dwickedangel.blogspot.com), it’s the one i labeled, LATEST FROM MY OTHER PAGES. It’s cool if you have lots of blogs. It’s also a cool way to track your friends’ latest posts.
I’m still figuring out how to have that at wordpress. That’s where I want to track my blogger friends’ latest posts because it (still) has lots of space at the sidebar, unlike my blogger.
Wish I can find the code/script…
alece // July 2, 2008 at 1:02 am
i wanna check out this “read it later” feature.
my favorite firefox add-on (non blog related, but figured i’d still share) is foxytunes. lets me access my itunes without switching windows. i can skip songs and even search for lyrics of the song that’s currently playing right from my internet window. it’ll change your life forever.
alece // July 2, 2008 at 1:12 am
okay - i can’t even figure out how to install this read it later thing. enlighten me, can you?
alece // July 2, 2008 at 2:24 am
nevermind! i got it! i had to update my firefox for it to work…
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