Does anyone use a blog editor? Like Qumana, or Anconia, Perfomancing?
I’m pondering an idea (essentially a way of getting an instant Google Bomb) and a blog editor that allowed me to post the same piece to multiple blogs simoultaneously would be a great help.
So, anyone use any of these (or others?) and know whether they can do that?
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Performancing doesn’t have true one click multiple publishing. But on the other hand it’s as simple as:
(1)Write post
(2)Select blog 1
(3)Hit publish
(4)Select post from history
(5)Select blog 2
(6)Hit publish
I forget whether you are a PC or a Mac user. I predominantly use Ecto on my Mac, though have tried MarsEdit off and on. Qumana looks promising but doesn’t work properly on a Mac, yet – the account creation mechanism does not work.
I’m not sure what you mean by “simultaneously” posting to different blogs, as it seems to me that none of them do this, but if you mean write once and then submit to different accounts, then certainly Ecto would allow that. I presume you mean for your posts such as the “Timmy elsewhere” ones – cos I can’t see the benefit in posting the substantive posts to multiple places – surely that would dilute Google’s hits rather than point them all at one?
I tried Performancing as well. It’s not as intuitive an editor to me somehow (and I’m not sure where it stores your post locally once you’ve submitted it – and whether it makes it easy therefore to reopen it and send it somewhere else). But all of my attempts with other clients are a little tainted by the fact that I was trying to get them to work with my own blog server side software (using Zope/Plone and a product called Quills).
Like anything else, the APIs of some blogging servers seem to have quirks that some of the client software products have factored in, but if you are building the server from scratch applying the APIs as documented it then breaks because eg Blogger has not quite followed its own API and many of the clients work with the way Blogger works rather than the way it should work. So most of the clients should be cool with standard servers.
I’d have a look at Ecto. It seems to keep your database of previous posts in such a way that it would be easier to open one and post it to another of your accounts.
I’m interested to know that “professional bloggers” such as yourself are not using clients. I find it a huge benefit over posting through forms on a web page.
Tim adds: I’m Windoze based so Marsedit is out (looked at that earlier this morning).
Not having multiple blogs I’ve never tested this, but Windows Live Writer, available at http://ideas.live.com,
certainly looks as if it should do this, as does the online editor WriteToMyBlog.
It sounds like your first commenter may have the simplest solution. As an alternative, you could use Google Docs & Spreadsheets with several Google IDs. Each ID would link to each blog you wanted to post to. You can “collaborate” on the single blog post between each of your Google IDs so that they all have the same document open at the same time, and publish the post by switching between windows or tabs to jump to each Google Docs & Spreadsheets session associated with each of the IDs. Once you set up the number of Google accounts (IDs) that you need, you could save a tab set in Firefox or IE7 to make it easy to open and sign in to all of the Google Docs & Spreadsheets sessions.
The URL for this post is for Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The help section is pretty well written, and will hopefully make the process easy to understand.
Wbloggar.com? Or is that too simple?
I use it all the time. Terribly handy.
Tim, that sounds like exactly what I do for a living (robots) … I might be happy to write an app for you in exchange for you hosting a link to my main property “Timworstall is sponsored by superquote.com” sort to thing. Contact me if you are interested.
You could try using Blogmailr and add several accounts/blogs. Then draft your entries in gmail (or any other email app) and then send to all the addresses linked to your blogs.
You realize that this is like asking how to cheat in online computer games?
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