Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Google Reader, Writely and blogging

I've been using writely quite a bit lately on my Ubuntu box, and mostly to make posts to my blog. I don't see a place for people to put in a title of a post. I would've thought that placing the title of the document as the title of the post would've been the logical thing to do, but I guess not so far. In any case, the flow isn't their. In OS X I used the combination of NetNewsWire and Marsedit. See an item you want to blog, right click the item, and choose post using Marsedit. No such flow in Googles apps. I guess they've been spending time integrating Writely with docs.google.com, but I hope they will spend some time in the future, integrating these apps so that people can use them better. What I would like is an option to go from a post in Google Reader, to writely (with the right title), to my blog.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...