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QUESTION: do you use a blog editor like LiveWriter, ecto, Mars Editor, Scribefire? Or do you just enter your posts into the backend of your blog directly?

May 25, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Ecto... have done for years... truly love it. - Andrew Garrett from Alert Thingy

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I enter my posts right into Wordpress. - Kevin Bondelli

I've always entered posts through the backend. Just downloaded ScribeFire. Very cool! - Jennifer James

Directly into Wordpress. Planning to try an editor soon. - Dee

I enter my posts into Wordpress or use EditPlus (text editor) with spell check plugin. - Erica Douglass

Blogger or WordPress dashboard directly. I've tried editors in the past and always been frustrated that they never seem to support all the features of the dashboard. - dgw

MarsEdit. Daniel does a fantastic job with it! - Matt Frog

I tried Live Writer, but I'm going back to the dashboard so that I can use Zemanta. - Rahsheen?

Live Writer to post to Community Server - Kathleen Anderson

Live Writer. Its so good that I actually boot Windows on my Mac just to run it. VMWare Fusion, of course. Ecto just isn't as slick. - David Risley

Live Writer. Love those plugins, too! - Sarah Perez

I've always just written through WP - what's the advantage of using some other type of blog editor? - Trisha

@Trisha, you can blog and surf the web at the same time! Ha! :) Actually, I think it's helpful when your blog requires lots of resources and research. I have Scribefire downloaded, but I find that I prefer my blog editor though. I think it's a comfort zone thing. What do you use, Darren? - Sarah Parker

I started using Live Writer because it made it easy to include pix. I do find that it's quite rigid with it's text formatting. Would like to switch to something else. Any recommendations? - Loraleigh Vance

Actually, a mixture of MS Word, Notepad and WP's editor. - Alex Cristache

Tried them all, helped make one ... using Live Writer with a little help from Flock's web clipboard - Tris Hussey

BlogDesk... Have truly tried them all and always come back to this baby. Just works. - Robert Sanzalone

I was using Ecto a lot, but now I've gone back to the Wordpress backend... too many little things like changing the post slug etc. that I often tweak on posts that most blog editors don't handle. - Martin Jamieson

@Robert: BlogDesk looks like a good program, but unfortunately it does not support Blogger. Back to the drawing board for me. - dgw

livewriter is good for me. I don't need many powerful functions and don't need login into the backend each time. - terababy

Windows Live Writer for me. Believe me, it's the best WYSIWYG blog client out there for Windows. - Shankar Ganesh

MarsEdit for me though I used to use ecto. Sometimes I just go into the backend itself to post something quickly. - Isaak Kwok

MarsEdit for me as well. I rather hate all of the blog backend editors. The only one I kind of like is LiveJournal, and it's buggy. - Arachne Jericho

@Trisha: One big advantage of using a Desktop client is that you can write your blog post offline on your laptop, on a plane or on a train etc. I use BlogDesk offline and Scribefire online - Stephen B from Alert Thingy

I sometimes use a plain text editor for composition, but do all the formatting in the WordPress dashboard itself for http://distributedresearch.net/blog... - Andy Roberts

the backend editor. - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

I use MarsEdit. Almost never to to the backend editor. - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

You know, this inspired me to see if there was a plugin for the Vim text editor that would post to blogs (I mean, seeing as there's plugins for WebDav and FTP support for the thing). It exists. http://code.google.com/p... Something similar probably exists for emacs. Uh, if one wants to go the completely, totally tech geek route. (Vim: not for the gentle-hearted.) - Arachne Jericho

I type in Pages, save regularly and then cut/paste to the blog backend. - Sally Church

Better vim blogging plugin is VimPress: http://phorolinux.com/vimpres... Okay now I'll shut up about vim :) - Arachne Jericho

Right into the backend. It's an ExpressionEngine site, so it's not as WYSIWYG great as some, but it does the trick. I also tend to do a lot of emdashes, extra HTML tidbits and whatnot, and I used to be a full-time codemonkey, so editing directly in the backend feels pretty comfy. - John Frenette

write on the web - Palin Ningthoujam

Tend to write in DarkRoom and then just paste into WP backend and format/add imagery. Find DarkRoom just invaluable for removing all distractions to writing. - Robin Cannon

I use Live Writer since it holds formatting and can offline. Always open for suggestions. - Dannie

For plain entries (just text), I'll usually use the WP editor. Just started using MarsEdit recently for more advanced entries that either include Flickr photos or other formatting. - Damon Cortesi

I use LiveWriter mostly, sometimes Scribefire. - Ellen Moore

I use Blogger. I see that not many people do, though, and I wonder if there's a reason. - Joseph Z.

Darren Rowse

so are people using Twhirl or some other app to use FF or are they using ff.com?

May 24, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm using the FF webiste... I do have it running in Twhirl, but I find it really hard to scan stuff - I wish there was a way to collapse/expand all entries (make it more like an RSS client or something)... would prefer to use a desktop client, but they need to improve. - Martin Jamieson

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Twhirl works pretty well, I also like AlertThingy and the FF Web site - Brett Kelly

I use ff.com. It's fast and simple... No need to launch another app, since my browser is always open anyway. - Daniel Zilber

I only use Twhirl for FF when I want to post an image with a link. Though I might start using the bookmarklet for that too. - Andrew Dobrow

yeah - tried twhirl but i might be friends with too many people to use it well - so on the ff.com site to this point - but even that's hard to keep up with. - Darren Rowse

I use the site. Sure I have twhirl running too, but it's not as usable to me, and results in another permanent taskbar button (which I don't have room for). - dgw

Web all the way - Shey

Web only - Robert Seidman

I'm experimenting with web, twhirl and alert thingy; I don't like Twhirls two windows for Twitter and FF as it adds extra clutter. - Sally Church

I usually use Prism for FriendFeed, but I'm still on the fence as to what's "best" (Twhirl, AlertThingy, or FFox with Greasemonkey Scripts) - Rahsheen?

On another note, has anyone found a good sidebar plugin? I found http://mysocial247.com. Can anyone vouch for it? - Rahsheen?

mysocial247 is decent. Personally I still like using the FF website (by far the easiest to interact with and best looking) - Deepak Singh

Rahsheen, here's a comment thread on mysocial247: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Seidman

FF.com and RSS Feeds to my Outlook 07' - David Cook

I use twhril for both twitter and friendfeed - Grant Griffiths from twhirl

i like the website experience. I'm on a mac and gave it it's own standalone browser using Fluid. - Jason Toney

Thanks Robert, You Rock. - Rahsheen?

I mainly use twitter.com on the web and friendfeed.com on the web. Occasionally ill post from twhirl. - Mike Fruchter

I'm using the FF website in its own Mozilla Prism instance. In addition, I use my own client FFeedVim to post sometimes. - Morton Fox

Twhirl, ugly as sin, doesn't have content tabs, but still the most reliable and fully featured - Duncan Riley from twhirl

I use ff.com because I have yet to find an app which is truly a better way of interacting on FF. - Scott Jarkoff

just starting out, use twhirl for twitter so am using twhirl for FF. i actually like a seperate app as i have way too many browser windows open as it is - gone from twhirl

The FriendFeed site is much better than Twitter's because it refreshes every few minutes if you leave your browser open, so I just use that. AFAIK Twitter doesn't do that... - Glen Stansberry

just the FF website - Eric

I using twhirl for FF it is nice but there must be implemented more features for example Rooms option I am missing this a lil bit. I've opened both FF and Twitter via Thwirl that is great, too. Hard interrupts via Twhirl. ;D - SteJules from twhirl

I mostly use friendfeed.com. I like Twhirl a lot for Twitter but not so much for FriendFeed. - Michael Hocter

Iuse AlertThingy most of the time, though I have been trying out feedalizr, preffering AT for now - Stephen B from Alert Thingy

Daily digest emails, read once every day or two. Website to add comments. - Richard Soderberg

Am using Twhirl. But I prefer to come into ff.com once in a while as it's easier to look at everything at a glance. - Isaak Kwok

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I've had 3 people today tell me that they don't see my tweets on twitter but only on friendfeed today - anoyone else having this problem?

April 20, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Yah ... I'm seeing your tweets on friendfeed, but not twitter. Am looking at it from twhirl. ...via twhirl - Isaak Kwok

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