Richie, always on the lookout for distractions to take me away from end-of-semester research papers, sent me to get ScribeFire today. This is a Firefox browser plug-in that adds a blogging tool to the browser framework. Now, waaaaay down in the lower right corner of my window I see a little edit icon. Clicking on it pulls up a half-sized window with a text editor and several controls to make blogging more integrated with whatever it is I am doing at the time.
Clearly, the tool works (this post was ScribeFired). However, I’m not seeing any great advantage over just using the WordPress control panels, which has the added plus of auto-saving my drafts. I also like to pop external links out into new windows, something I don’t see as an option here. The tool does pull in my categories, but not in the nice nested structure I use, losing some context.
I’m sure Richie would insist I don’t get it because I’m not using it yet, mentioning drag-n-drop capabilities for links and the convenience of keeping half of the window devoted to whatever page I am currently browsing. ScribeFire also allows for multiple blogs to be integrated, which might help some of my other blogging efforts. It also integrates with del.icio.us and technorati.
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