BlogJet, Qumana and offline blog production

by Lee Hopkins on April 17, 2006 · 11 comments

in miscellaneous,tools

Regular readers of this blog will remember that like Allan Jenkins and Neville Hobson, I have forsaken the extremely useful but increasingly bug-ridden RocketPost.

I tried out Qumana (full-release version 2.0) but avoided the beta of Version 3 as I am currently anti beta versions. I want to know that something actually works before I screws my head up.

But difficulties with Qumana and WordPress led me to take up Fred Zelder’s suggestion and try BlogJet. Seven days into my 30–day trial and I have to say so far I’m impressed.

Dave Briggs has equally had challenges with Qumana and WordPress, and has posted a very useful comparison betwixt BlogJet and Qumana.

What would be fantastic would be to see the best bits of RocketPost, such as its automatic caption maker and insertion of an image into a table, with the best bits of Qumana, such as its automatic copying of the clipboard into a dialogue box and handling of Technorati tags, with BlogJet’s ease of use and its ‘auto replace’ feature — which means, like Microsoft Word, you can preset a word or a phrase to self-complete with details such as a url.

So I can type in the three letters ‘bcr’ and BlogJet automatically replaces it with the html code that links to this blog, for example.

So far BlogJet is the only editor that has seamlessly connected me to the various blogs I contribute to — this one, my ‘talking with Geeks’ blog, Robert French’s Marcom blog and a couple of client blogs that I keep a watchful eye on.

Having been stung by RocketPost (and how interesting it is to note that despite mentioning their name heavily in recent posts of mine, they have not contacted me or Allan or Neville at all to try and repair the damage), I am currently allergic to paying out more money for another tool. However, if BlogJet keeps being the quietly efficient, if under-featured, tool that it is, I may well end up forking out the US$30 at the end of my trial.

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  • http://da.vebrig.gs/ Dave Briggs

    Le, thanks for the link. I think this is a fantastic area of competition between some very good services (except for RocketPost of course!) Perhaps this competition will force BlogJet to start adding some of the features that the likes of Qumana are now coming out with.

    Image handling is definitely one area that needs improvement in all the editors, as you mention. What would be really cool, though, would be having the ability to manage comments through the same editor as well – making it a one-stop-shop for the day to day management of a blog.

  • http://da.vebrig.gs Dave Briggs

    Le, thanks for the link. I think this is a fantastic area of competition between some very good services (except for RocketPost of course!) Perhaps this competition will force BlogJet to start adding some of the features that the likes of Qumana are now coming out with.

    Image handling is definitely one area that needs improvement in all the editors, as you mention. What would be really cool, though, would be having the ability to manage comments through the same editor as well – making it a one-stop-shop for the day to day management of a blog.

  • http://leehopkins.net/ Lee

    That’s a superb idea, Dave!

    I’ll leave it to you to post about it, and I’ll post a link to your post (if that makes any sense!)

  • http://leehopkins.net Lee

    That’s a superb idea, Dave!

    I’ll leave it to you to post about it, and I’ll post a link to your post (if that makes any sense!)

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  • http://da.vebrig.gs/ Dave

    Thanks Lee! The post in question is here.

  • http://da.vebrig.gs Dave

    Thanks Lee! The post in question is here.

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