There are many offline blogging clients available, like Thingamablog, Semagic (which works only for Live Journal), SharpMT (which works only with blogs based on Moveable Type) etc. I just tried Flock because of its user friendliness and versatility.
Flock
Flock is an excellent client when it comes to posting to blogs hosted at blogspot.com, wordpress.com, livejournal.com and typepad.com. Besides these, it can also post to blogs based on the Movable Type, Drupal, Blogger, Atom and Metaweblog platforms. This is another reason to stick to the popular blogging platforms. Flock can post to more than one blog, though not at the same time.
Configuration
The first time you run Flock after installation, it will ask you details about your blog. Enter the URL of the blog (with the “http://”), and the user name and password and you are set. To add more blogs, you can click on the Tools, Accounts and Settings Menu. The steps are the same. Flock will, by default, update technorati.com every time you make a new post.
Utilities Of Flock
The beauty of flock lies in the right click. Any text, image, webpage can be posted to the blog, with or without your comments with a right click. Selecting a block of text and right clicking on it will show the “blog this” option in the context menu. Selecting it will pop up a text editor where you can add a title or additional text, and then click on Publish. You can choose the blog to which the content has to be published along with any category or tags to be associated with the entry or any other options as specified by you in the blog in the next step. Clicking on Publish then posts the contents to the blog. Enabling the “Visit the blog after Publishing” option will take you to the blog after the post is published. Images, links can be similarly blogged. As a safety mechanism, Flock will also store a copy of the post locally. If you are only seeking to type out a post, this can be done from the New Blog Post option under the File menu. The Open Blog Post option takes you to the previously stored blog posts published through Flock.
Offline RSS Readers
Creating a stand alone blog and expecting it to be successful is a pipe dream. The extent of cross linking which you do with the blog is crucial to its success. And to cross link, you should be devoting time reading other blogs! While visiting each blog can be tedious, it has to be done as an exploratory exercise to discover new, interesting blogs. Once you come across a blog subscribing to its RSS feed will allow you to be updated about the latest posts as and when they are published. This saves you a lot of trouble. RSS feeds can be accessed by using a class of applications called feed readers. One popular, free feed reader is Abilon. Surprisingly, Flock presents itself as a worthy contender among feed readers also.
Flock and RSS
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on October 18, 2008 1:03 PM
This sounds like an interesting blog client. I'm definitely going to test it.
on October 18, 2008 10:02 PM
pretty good review. wasnt aware you can do this in flock. ^_^
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