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:
Ooh, simple and elegant way of doing things :P
I’m still happy to use email subscriptions, but I’m glad to know this!
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I tried the email subscription once and gave up immediately. I received so many emails yet none was directed to me. LOL. It depends on individuals really. If it works for you, great news :-)
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Actually, Kelwin, that was what exactly happened to me too. That is also why I love co.mments so much. It’s web-based, and it doesn’t send me irrelevant emails, and I check my comments whenever and wherever I want to.
Subscribing to the individual post’s comments feed in Google Reader or Bloglines serves the same function, but with co.mments, it only takes ONE CLICK.
My tools:
1. WordPress
2. Firefox
3. Sitemeter
4. Google reader
5. StumbleUpon
That’s all, for now :) But I will try co.mments, since you have mentioned it :)
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I’m not a blogger, so I guess not many tools you mentioned are relevant to me, except Firefox! Firefox rocks! :biggrin:
I’m using Firefox, Statcounter and Bloglines. Used to use Webshots to share photos online with my friends in the past but I stopped using it already since few years back. I had a Flickr account but i have been neglecting it for years too :D
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I think the all the tools in the list is used by bloggers. Another important component of blogging is the social networking site for blog. MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog is the example. Don’t forget Technorati and YouTube. You cannot blog without knowing YouTube. :-)
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“You cannot blog without knowing YouTube. ”
Being unaware of You Tube might mean that you don’t read many other blogs or websites, but most of my favourite websites don’t post You Tube videos on their blog or they do it very sparingly. I would not be tempted to revisit a blog that only had You Tube videos – if I’d wanted that I’d just visit You Tube, not read a blog.
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Actually, that was what I wanted to say too, Kristarella :) Blogs that are loaded with YouTube videos usually either take a long time to load, or buffer. Moreover, I don’t fancy videos much, I’d prefer to READ blogs :)
But then again, different people (bloggers) have different styles. We don’t expect video blogs to go without videos, do we? LOL.
kristarella, what mean was, we use youTube as an online tool. Not necessarily, we post a youTube videos on our blog…I just post a video, in order to share with my blog visitor because it think it is worth to share a videos, once a while…I’m sorry if my statement is a bit unclear…
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