CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

blogging.wurk has a post that compares Typepad and WordPress from a blog network’s point of view. No real surprises with the findings but for TypePad users it might be an interesting comparison: So last week I gave WordPress a try. Fair enough, each blog currently needs its own install of ...more

Bloglines have added a new ‘hotkeys’ feature which allows users to scroll forwards and backwards through posts in their system from post to post or folder to folder with a keystroke. A word of warning however – don’t click ‘s’ or ‘f’ unless you really do want to go to ...more

Andy has a great introductory flash demo of the new Google Reader news aggregator (opens in a new window – 1.2MB) which will be useful for those just starting out with news aggregation.

Google has launched a News Reader called Google Reader which allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and news sources. The interface seems pretty simple at a first look. If this system is anything like Yahoo’s MyYahoo it might be worth subscribing to your own RSS feeds to make sure ...more

Has anyone else noticed that the monthly Feedster Top 500 Blog List hasn’t been updated since it’s first incarnation in August?

I really hope that this next Apple announcement event has a nice update for the PowerMac like all the rumor sites seem to be hinting about. My little powerbook has been great – but its starting to slow down and I’m looking for some more power and a larger screen. ...more

Phil at Geeky Info (one of my favorite blogs of late) has an interesting post titled the blogging toolkit where he asks readers to come up with a list of software tools that they use in their blogging workflow: ‘So, I started thinking about the software tools that I use ...more

Six Apart has put out a press release in the last few hours annoucing a new blogging platform that they are planning to release early in 2006. It’s code named Project Comet. They are selling it as featuring Community Aggregation, Multiple Streams and Privacy. They write: ‘Combining the weblog publishing ...more

Technorati has launched a new service – Blog Finder – a way of not only finding blog posts on particular topics but also blogs themselves. In effect this is a step towards the Niche Top Blog Lists that I mentioned a week or so back. Of course it won’t be ...more