This post is written in response to Justin Kistner’s group writing project, Favorite tools round up but I thought it would be more fun to learn about your favourite blogging tools rather than your working tools :)
Share a list of your favorite blogging tools that you use blog. You could share why you like the tool or even why it’s better than another popular one. Tools could be desktop and web applications, or they could be a mash up of a few services, or something like a manually maintained Excel spreadsheet.
- Quoted and modified from Justin Kistner
My favourite tools are as follow, in no particular order:
- WordPress — This is undeniably the best and most user-friendly blogging platform I’ve ever used.
- Firefox — Need I say more? Firefox even comes with a host of add-ons!
- StatCounter – The only statistics software I use on my blog because I don’t need any more to confuse myself.
- del.icio.us — I am finding del.icio.us more and more useful. I can bookmark almost anything without leaving the page and get back to them whenever I want. And I get to tag them, which makes sorting remarkably easy.
- Bloglines — I read my favourite blogs and news via Bloglines and it picks feeds up fairly quickly too!
- co.mments — Allows me to track the comments I have left on various blogs without receiving email notifications that flood my mailbox. Nifty!
- Webshot — Download the small (less than 1MB) program and you can take a complete screenshot of your blog (very useful if you’re about to show off your new blog theme/design)!
- Flickr — I get to post lots of pictures and share them with anybody, and I get to post them on my blog. I get to decide who sees what too!
What about you? Are you using the same tools that I am using? Or are you using something more powerful? Share all! :vodka:
Define tools : Software?
If you’re referring to anything else that helps in blogging, I’d like to add Feedburner to the list and Stumble.Upon. :)
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WordPress – IT is the blogging tool of choice … once it is properly extended, its functionality enhanced and its limits streatched beyond boundaries it was intitially designed for :D
Alex
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WordPress and del.icio.us are big ones for me too.
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Mine are as follows:
1. WordPress
2. Firefox
3. Notepad
4. Flickr
Services that help me with blogging:
1. StumbleUpon
2. del.icio.us
3. Google
That’s all. I think that’s what most other people use too!
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Wordpress and Firefox are and awesome combination. I also use google reader a bit. There are heaps of good tools popping all the time on the web.
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I’d say Google Reader. Apart from being a RSS reader, I am currently using it to track my comments. After commenting on a post, I will subscribe to the comment of the post. This will be arranged in a folder. New comments will show up as an item in the reader. I will unsubscribe to it when I want to stop tracking the comment.
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I didn’t know you could subscribe to the comments of one post… I thought that subscribing to comments was to the whole blog’s comments.
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Oh yes, you can, Kristarella :) You can subscribe to the comments of an individual post via the RSS feed, or you can tick the checkbox which says “I’d love to be notified of follow-up comments via e-mail”, or you can use third-party services such as co.mments to track your comments.
Cool, so if you weren’t using co.mments how do you get the individual post RSS – autodiscovery in your browser?
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@kristarella
It depends on the blog’s platform and theme design. Some themes provide a “subscribe to post comment” or equivalent under each post. Or else, just copy the URL of the post and add a “feed/” at the end of it.
Example:
This post’s URL is http://chenpn.com/2007/10/20/what-are-your-favourite-blogging-tools/
Therefore, the comments to this post will be http://chenpn.com/2007/10/20/what-are-your-favourite-blogging-tools/feed/
You can try it.
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