How do you blog?
What tools do you use to blog, dear readers?
Are you a hardcore Microsoft Live Writer or ecto fan or do you stick to ole trusty Wordpress Admin interface?
Do you stick post-it notes to everything blog-worthy or do you trust the long, long list of potential blog articles that float around your head?
Myself, when offline, I carry around a oh-so-hip Moleskine Ruled Notebook with a simple pen and I take notes on anything that may become a nice, juicy blog post. When online, I copy my blog notes to my Backpack @Blog page, which features a long list of potential blog posts and miscellaneous notes.
When I decide to sit down and write something (that is, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night), I open up my list, select a subject and add a Writeboard to my @Blog page. I love 37Signals’ Writeboards because they’re really the most distraction-free wiki-like writing space I can find online, plus they are included free with my Backpack account. And the typing starts.
When my draft is completed, I copy the post text to the Wordpress Admin interface, insert links, images, tags and whatnot, hit Publish and tada! Blogged.
Any similar blogging procedures out there?
February 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
wordpress and weak memory for me.
i didn’t know about the other stuff anyway. too complicated. might check them. some day…
moleskines are cool.:)
February 20th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Since I don’t see why should I use anything else than the pblogs’ writer (ok, some MS word for the dictionary, too) to write down exactly what I could write in any other fancy looking applet, I just use that
(no need to change my ways since it simply works easily)
And blog posts usually are written like this: Think of something,
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Talk about it with anyone interested (very few unfortunately),
Make a little research on the topic,
Listen on other people’s opinions,
Write my own opinion to that post and pray for someone to argue so that a descent dialog could start. (that last part hasn’t happened yet
And since that nice pblogs tools allow to save any unfinished blogpost I have like half a dozen posts pending there
February 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
I tend to write once a week lately but I ‘d like to write more often.
I want my posts to have some integrity and be diachronic, though I know it’s not easy.
Some of my blog spots are written in Google Docs before I copy and paste them to the editor. The rest of them come on the spur of the moment.
February 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
I keep all my drafts at Google Docs and when a post is ready I the copy the post text to the Wordpress Admin interface, insert links, images, etc. and then publish it!!! I tried some blogging software, but I guess I’m a web maniac - keep everything on-line, which is not good in some occasions…
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 am
Well, I carry either a Moleskine or a Filofax with me and take notes there, on anything that I find interest in looking back later.
If it is something I would like to blog about, I transfer it to my Wordpress drafts and work on it from there.
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I’m glad to see there’re so many Moleskine fans out there.
Doesn’t anyone else dislike the way the Wordpress admin interface has become increasingly bloated, especially the write page?
February 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
For posting, I used to rely on the wordpress editor, but it quickly wears me out. I want to be able to drag images and videos in and out of the writing area etc. Writing online quickly becomes a nuisance when you have 8 blogs (some mine, some guesting) and their different quirks.
I use Onenote for notetaking (it accomodates well the my arbitrary logic paths), in conjunction with Outlook to handle the incoming flow. When it’s time to flesh things out as a post I move it to the live writer.
I also use paper notes for physical meetings. I own this http://rurl.org/ix8 and write on it with these http://rurl.org/ix7 (I have the fountain pen + pencil).