Blogging

Today must be blog day <smile>

I’ve been blogging for a long time, my diabetes blog is the longest living diabetes blog.  It’s at http://www.kweaver.org/blog

I use Typepad for all my blogs.  Yeah, I have this one, one on the dogs, the one on diabetes, and set up a microblog when I want to write about something that doesn’t fit the others.  Especially with the 140 character limit of Twitter.

Typepad is awesome and I’ve blogged about it in the past.  Right now, I want to talk about blogging tools.  My original blogging platform was Movable Type but it was a pain to maintain.  Typepad does all the work, I just have to post.

My favorite mobile phone blogging app is Typepad’s that runs on the mobile phone.  Don’t use it a lot, but it’s great when I’m out and about and want to write a short blog post.

Lately I’ve been using the Window Live Writer Beta the most, and I’m using it right now.  It’s simple and easy to use and has lots of plug-ins.  It’s really great when you are blogging about code.

I also like the online blogging tool that is provided with TypePad.  Again, simple and easy to use, just login to the site.

I’ve blogged with Word 2010 and it is also awesome.  Again, easy to set up and easy to use.  Adobe Contribute isn’t bad either.

Some things I wish worked better:

Just make a movie with Windows Movie Maker Beta, and while it was super easy to put the video on Facebook, I couldn’t figure out how to make it a blog post automatically.  I also wish that Camtasia 7 and / or Screencast did a better job of that.

I think SnagIt works pretty well with blogging – have to play with that again.

Yes, I like to blog, not sure why.  Which is real interesting as I ran into the person I consider to be my opposite in the school district – we’re both computer science teachers but look at it from opposite point of views.  I mentioned I read a blog post by an mutual acquaintance that mentioned her, and she made a comment that indicated she thought blogging was distasteful.  Oh well.