CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

BlogPulse has developed clickable trend graphs that let you track what is being talked about in the blogosphere. It would be handy for tracking a topic you’re blogging on. For example covering the story of the transition of Popes the following graph shows when the key moments were.

I often get asked how I can update my blogs so often – its time to go public. I use AutoBlogger. Learn more about it from this trailer.

When I commented on the new OSX Tiger (for Mac) I commented that I’d love a dashboard widget that would check my Adsense stats. Well it seems someone else had the same idea and has just released one. It’s a great idea that I’m sure many Mac Adsense publishers will ...more

Wow – look at the innovations that are happening in comments systems at the moment – Peter from Almost Cool pointed me over to the beautifully designed snook.ca’s beautiful blog with its wonderful comments system. It has live preview of comments with yellow fade. Peter also points to the relational ...more

I’ve been having some real frustrations with Ecto over the past day or two. I’m unsure if its just the latest version or whether my recent server updates have caused issues – or both. Some of the issues include the inability to upload photos via ecto, posting as drafts rather ...more

A regular reader of ProBlogger, Mark from The Rock and Roll Report, has asked the following question that I thought I’d open up to all readers for discussion. ‘I am looking at getting a laptop that will primarily be just for my blog site The Rock and Roll Report. From ...more

Andy has a good post on ‘Blog Power’ which I think is a pretty spot on analysis of a tool that attempt to game Google and simply clutters the web with useless content. These sort of tools might bring you a little short term benefit but the risks are not ...more

Just spotted this news (perhaps its old and I missed it previously) that AOL are opening up their blogging tool to their Instant Messaging users. Not only this but they’ll be able to to submit posts to their blogs via instant messaging when logged in to the screen name associated ...more

I’ve decided to test Backpack with their free service. My hope is that it will help me to be a little more organized in my blogging. I’ve made my front home page public to show you a little of what it can do – I’ve not put anything special on ...more