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Flock - davids brain blog — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:59:48 +0000

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MacManX.com — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:09:39 +0000

Blogroll Dive: 10/24/05

Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Bryan briefly discusses OpenOffice.org v2.0 and the problem that is preventing its adoption by the masses.
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By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:41:32 +0000

Hi Chris - thanks for taking the time to explain some of Flock’s thinking on the Categories issue. The idea of converting existing categories to tags and converting them on publication is a nice one.

One other suggestion I would give you is to suggest tags. My tag plugin on this blog is called Ultimate Tag Warrior and it reads my post and through some Yahoo! web services magic it comes back with a list of suggested tags, when asked. Something like this would make the blog editor very useful.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:16:27 +0000

Thanks for your feedback, Tom. Just a quick clarification: we don’t support categories because we use tags. The reason for that is because you can not create categories via the existing blogging APIs. Therefore if you only ever use Flock to blog, you would never have any categories setup, which would make supporting them useless.

What we are going to do, however, in a future release, is download your categories and add them to your tags’ autocompletion library. When you add a tag that matches an existing category, we will check off that category when you post your blog entry. So while it’s not ideal per se, it’s the only option we have unless the blogging tools change. We went through a lot of issues on this one and ended up deciding that tags are a superior way to deal with favorites and blog posts since you can also unify them across the whole browser whereas categories tend to be more specific to only blog posts.

By: Things That ... Make You Go Hmm

Things That ... Make You Go Hmm — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:08:28 +0000

Flock off to a bloody impressive start

As far as new browsers go it’s difficult for me to get excited about them because there are so many out there but lately I’ve been impressed by two different browsers. First was Opera which went free after being a pay or ad-supported brows…

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:24:03 +0000

Hostyle,

I was able to get the “drag stuff to blog” working - I dragged it to the blog post area and it went in, no problem. I had a bit of trouble with it though ‘cos it looked to me like you were supposed to drag it to the button which says “drag stuff to blog”

The Delicious integration is nice, the rest is fairly yawn.

What I do like about it, is that so far, it seems faster and more stable than Firefox - I’ll need to use it more to confirm that.

By: hostyle

hostyle — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:06:29 +0000

Could you get the “drag stuff to blog” bit working? Nothing happened for me. It really should be integrated more so that you can post to other blogs using its shiny interface. I don’t see there being a large uptake of this app though - it offers very little above firefox, and integrates with only a few clique sites and blogging software - flickr, delicious, wordpress and MT - and poorly with those. Another big brouhaha over nothing IMO.