New Features in Windows Live Writer 2009
16 dec 2008
Windows Live Writer 2009, part of the Live Essentials suite, includes some useful features like tag suggestions, picture upload and find-as-you-type. Worth an upgrade.
Blogging
Blogging with Windows Live Writer and Firefox 3
15 dec 2008
Blog quickly when you find something of interest on the web with Blog This in Windows Live Writer – now available for Firefox 3 series.
Backup Your Blogger Blog in a Click
11 dec 2008
Learn how to create a backup of your blogger blogs in a click. You can download the entire blog to your hard drive or merge it with another blog online.
Oxite: Microsoft’s new Blogging and CMS Platform
09 dec 2008
Microsoft Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites.
Arianna Huffington on Blogging
08 dec 2008
The blogging guide written by Arianna Huffington provides tips on getting started with blog. Arianna founded The Huffington Post, the most influential Web sites on the web.
Techmeme to get “Editors”
03 dec 2008
Techmeme, the popular technology news aggregator, has indicated that completely automated news may not be working as fast as expected, making manual intervention necessary.
Gabe Rivera cites the example of Anna Nicole Smith‘s death, where the Techmeme algorithm (on Wesmirch, a sister site) “featured news about Anna Nicole Smith’s hospitalization after she’d already been declared dead”.
Carry Your Google Reader Offline with Scoop, Supports Synchronization
26 nov 2008
Read Google Reader subscriptions offline on the road with Scoop, a free AIR app available for Mac, Windows and Linux. It keeps track of multiple Google Reader accounts simultaneously. Read, tag and star your blog posts anywhere Scoop will synchronize your changes with Google when you’re back online.
Send Screenshot Images Directly to WordPress Blogs – Firefox Only
25 nov 2008
ScreenGrab to WordPress lets you grab screenshots of web pages and will also upload the image to any WordPress blog.
Building a Better Blog: Google Offers Some Blogging Advice
20 nov 2008
Google has some tips for bloggers like a useful post once a week is better than low-quality content published daily.
WordPress Downloads Cross the 3 Million Mark
13 nov 2008
WordPress self-hosted software has been downloaded more than 3 million times from the wordpress.org repository. I was lucky enough to watch this live when the ticker moved to that magical 3,000,002 mark.