Tag Archive for 'Blogging'
Mike has written a post about how he has started using del.icio.us in a number of different ways. It's funny but I never thought about using it for my blogroll. I should do that instead of just listing my most current bookmarks. He also has started tagging each of his posts.
Currently I tag all of my posts internally as well as links to the tags on Technorati. I'll have to experiment and see if del.icio.us tags work better. I'm pretty skeptical on that. I really like Technorati and at this point probably trust their tagging more than users tagging things themselves.
Vox is a new free blogging service from Six Apart, the people that brought you the excellent Movable Type publishing system. They also run Typepad as a paid-for hosted Movable Type install.
I actually initially used Movable Type back when I started blogging about the Mepis Linux distribution. It works well and is pretty flexible. However, Wordpress has since overtaken it in ease of use and the number of people developing plugins which enhance the functionality. That's what happens when you pit an open source project against a closed source project some of the time.
Six Apart has also bought Livejournal. This blogging community has been around for a long time and overall has a very loyal and rabid fanbase. However, it never was the most flexible nor user-friendly of blogging tools. Enter Vox. It's positioned to directly compete with Blogger by being very easy to pick up for beginners. It goes one step further though by offering some of the newer 'Web 2.0' features such as tagging, easy interaction with Flickr and Amazon, and allowing you to form groups of friends like Flickr as well.
I like the service but am unwilling to leave my Wordpress install. So I found a Wordpress plugin that will allow me to cross-post to Vox. I plan on making collections of pictures, music, and books that remind me of certain things as well as doing album and book reviews there since that functionality is already built in.
If anybody is reading this post on Vox, then welcome! My main blog is HERE. And of course, my Vox blog is HERE if you're on my main page.
[tags]blogging, Movable Type, Six Apart, Typepad, Livejournal, Wordpress, Vox[/tags]
I'm posting this using the new beta version of Windows Live Writer. It's a new, free blogging tool from Microsoft. So far it appears that it offers a few new features compared to say w.bloggar, such as post previews. Now I don't mean the typical here's your post in HTML form preview. It actually shows you a preview of your post ON YOUR PAGE. I think that's a really neat feature. Another nice feature is the integration with Virtual Earth from Microsoft. From within Live Writer, you type in an address, zoom in, and insert your map or picture directly.
So in short I think that I'm going to give this a shot and start using it for my postings. For a more in-depth review, go read what Paul has to say.
[tags]microsoft,blogging_tools[/tags]
The picture below was taken this past spring while on a run with some coworkers during a weekend shift. We would do this every once in awhile, meeting up at the Iwo Jima memorial and then running into Georgetown. It's an interesting and ejoyable run that's not too far. It's posted by using a newer photo service called Zooomer that is trying to compete with Flickr by adding more features and free photo hosting for bloggers. The site interests me as I like some of the additional features and my Flickr Pro account doesn't last all that much longer.
177930642_88c5283680_o Hosted on Zooomr
[tags]zooomer, photos, social networks, flickr[/tags]
