Words on a page

Over the last few days, I've been test driving a couple of new (at least to me) blogging tools. The first is a Firefox extension called ScribeFire. This extension adds a word processor-like interface to Firefox for publishing post to blogging software and services like Blogger, WordPress, and Moveable Type. It's really easy to use, and can be popped up as you need it. The only thing I don't like about ScribeFire is that it leaves a lot of white space at the end of a post.

The other tool is Sun Weblog Publisher (SWP). SWP is an add-in for OpenOffice.org or StarOffice that turns the word processor component into a blog entry editor. It enables you to write your entries in a familiar interface, assuming you regularly use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice. Which means that you can easily add formatting, tables, lists, and images. On top of that, you can open your old blog entries and save them in OpenDocument Format or as PDFs. SWP supports Blogger, WordPress, Roller, and a few other blogging services. The biggest problem with SWP is that you have to pay for it -- $9.95 (USD).

I don't know if I'll stick with either, or just go back to using my blog service's Web interface though.