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 Leave a comment »Blog on the roadIt happens all the time. You are on the road, no internet connection and no Starbuck's or Panera's around to grab a one and you have an idea for an article. Sure you could open up notepad and write an article but it doesn't support linking or custom formatting. You could also use Microsoft Word but as any of you that have tried this before knows, you will be injecting a lot of non-HTML junk into your posts that can lead to a really horrendous looking blog. Even the best of Microsoft Word filters still miss some of the noise that Word puts into its HTML so what do you do? We didn't just create the blogging platform, affectionately referred to as Diachronic but we also use our blogs to keep track of ideas, say what is on our minds and sometimes even post something to the internet for general consumption. And since we use our own blogs, we know that there needs to be multiple entry points for making a post so you can overcome the limitations of a conventional blog. Blog by email We support submitting draft articles to our blog via an email interface. You can send an email from a trusted email address to a private address on our servers and it will put your post into the queue for you review and eventual publication. So you are covered if you can send an email, you can write into your blog. Blog by sidebar (Firefox users) Sometimes you need to comment on a post that you have read, an article that you are reading or while you are doing research. Sure Firefox supports tabs and even IE7 does now too but switching tabs back and forth to write a post can make you lose your train of thought. Well at least that happens to me but I have a theory that walking around and then sitting down makes ideas pop back into my head but that is a different story. With blog by sidebar, you can open a sidebar window in Firefox where you can do your editing and have the rest of your browser for research or doing a cut/paste. Blogging just got easier. Blog with a standalone editor Standalone editors can do things better than even the most sophisticated web editors. They can do multilingual spell checking, store offline versions of posts and even categorize and archive your posts. They also let you work on multiple posts without having a connection and then sending them to the blog when you have a network connection. This list is not exhaustive but instead shows tools that are known to work with an RSS Pieces blog. If you don't see your editor here, check to see if it supports the API's that are listed below. If it does, you are in business. Free Tools Commercial Tools Microsoft Word 2007 - Yes Word 2007 will post to blogs and our interface has been tested and shown to work with it. Under the hood RSS Pieces supports the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API and MT API with support for ATOM API coming shortly. To ease use Diachronic will masquarade itself as a WordPress blog if it sees that you are using a blog editor. This little trick makes most blog editors think they know who they are talking to and they will configure themselves with little effort on your part. In fact, configuring both Microsoft Word 2007 and Windows Live Writer is remarkably painless but the results are worth it! Diachronic also supports RSD (Really Simple Discoverability) which tells blog tools where to connect to do their communications with the server when they need to publish an article.
Our Picks With a tool like Windows Live Writer you can do all of your major editing and even embed images and they will be automatically posted to the blog. No need to FTP graphics files, do thumbnailing or use some web interface because it does all of that for you when you click the Publish button. Could it get easier?
Windows Live Writer Beta Word 2007 works pretty well as seen in this screenshot and we can't wait to see the retail version when it is available.
Word 2007 Beta We also like BlogJet for its ease of use and good feature-set but hands-down we really like Chrysanth WebStory and think it is worth every penny of its price because of its outstanding feature list and flawless user interface. To see WebStory is to love it so check it out if you need to do offline publishing.
Chrysanth WebStory A Security Note Some may feel that opening up the backend for multi-purpose blogging may be a security risk but Diachronic performs not only the standard validation of a user and their intent but it also adds many more tests when an article is published remotely. Coupling our proprietary implementation of the API's with extended security tests and the platforms in-built anti-spack tests and blacklisting we are able to offer a painless publishing system that can still be trusted. Comment on this article This post has no feedback awaiting moderation... |
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