Blogging: ScribeFire… Blog in an Instant
This is a test. 
Seriously. I juts added ScribeFire Blog Editor to Firefox. I’ve been hesitating doing this because I’m right at home with my blog. I use Fast Dial as my homepage, so it’s really easy to get to. One click on my Fast Dial page or one click in my lower toolbar… what’s the diff, eh?
But I’m hearing all kinds of great things about this add-on, and there are times when I’m at a web page and want to blog about it, but think… I’ll get to it later and never do. Maybe this will stop that arrested intent blogging.
Here are some cool features:
- You can preview the post in your blog template or just in the Scribefire template. Kind of cool, but I rarely preview my posts. I hit send very quick and then, am glad that I have MaxBlog Press’s Ping Optimizer installed so that edits don’t matter to the blog directories since they’re only pinged once.
- It shows you the last several posts you have made in the “Entries” tab.
- You can select which category you want the post to fall into.
- It allows you to add TrackBack URLs, which I think is kind of redundant for WordPress, which does that automatically.
- Allows you to add images.
- Has a special button for YouTube video additions
- Will find related articles for you with Zemanta (notice the links at the end of this post leading to other articles), which is kind of cool
- You can make money with in-text links from InLinks.com
- You can bookmark at Propeller, Facebook, Digg, Fark, StumbleUpon, and Newsvine from the “promote” tab.
And as you see, it allows you to add a post splitter.
I’m just checking it out. What worries me is the apparent inability to add a description to my post, which means I’d just have go to my blog to do that, anyway. But it appears that ScribeFire has tags covered in the “entries” tab for Technorati tags. However, I’m still not seeing the ability to add a description. I really need to study this more.
For now, let’s just say that I took the plunge. We’ll see how things go and I’ll know better tomorrow whether or not I’d recommend using this add-on for serious posting. I’m hitting the publish button now… let’s see how it goes!
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