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BlogJet

A few weeks ago,  Ben asked What do you use to write blog entries?  This post, along with a need to rapidly publish to our LinkBlog, got me looking into blogging tools.  I’ve settled on using BlogJet.  In fact, I like it so much, that I’ve managed get copies for all of the bloggers here at CodeBetter.Com.. Not sure how many of us are using it yet, but I have a feeling that it’ll catch on..

What’s so cool about it?  For one thing, it works with a bunch of weblog services (Blogger, DasBlog, MovableType, .Text, Blogger API, MetaWeblog API)For another, you can setup multiple blogs to publish to, so that you can easily switch back and forth if you publish to multiple blogs.  But, the coolest thing (IMO) is that it adds a “BlogJetThis” extension to FireFox, and IE, so that you can select content, right-click the selection and choose “BlogJetThis” from the context menu.

Blogjet1

This will launch BlogJet, with the text that you’ve highlighted, and also title your post and create a hyperlink (think Scoble’s link blog).

Blogjet2

One click and your post is published!  I don’t really know if it can get any easier.  In the interest of fairness, I should mention that we’re getting our copies license free (licenses normally cost $39.95), but I think I’d be using it and blogging about it anyway.  It really is that good.

-Brendan


Posted Tue, Feb 22 2005 11:55 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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Comments

Chris Wallace wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 9:33 AM
I've also started using BlogJet (testing it on the trial right now) but I have problems editing posts as posted @ http://tamasii.com/blog/archive/2005/02/18/48806.aspx
James Avery wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 9:53 AM
Glad you like the Firefox support. :)
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:04 AM
Chris,

I've had problems editing posts too. Let me see if I can get some feedback for you.

Brendan
Sahil Malik wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 10:07 AM
Brendan I've been using it too, and by far this is the best blogging tool I've seen. There are a few comparisons, but I like it's simple UI.
Peter van Ooijen wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 2:19 PM
What I like about it are its off-line capabilities. Some posts take quite some time to assemble, with Blogjet you can save a post in a local file. Blogjet is associated to the extension.
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Feb 22 2005 2:28 PM
Peter,

That is cool! I didn't know that.
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: BlogJet
on Wed, Feb 23 2005 6:46 AM
"but I have problems editing posts"

Chris, this bug is specific to Text is addressed in the FAQ:
http://blogjet.com/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Main.FrequentlyAskedQuestions
(scroll down to bottom)
Chris Wallace wrote re: BlogJet
on Wed, Feb 23 2005 12:24 PM
Thanks Brendan. Now I just have to figure out what Scott changed from the binaries and make the changes to my source.
Brendan Tompkins wrote re: BlogJet
on Wed, Feb 23 2005 12:31 PM
No Kidding! We ain't using no stinking out of the box version here either.
TrackBack wrote BlogJet Love
on Wed, Mar 9 2005 5:06 AM
Hsmbooze wrote re: BlogJet
on Tue, Jul 14 2009 11:43 AM

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