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Blogging toy of the day: WriteToMyBlog!

December 21, 2006 by Don Radlauer 1 Comment

In the past, I’ve used Microsoft Word to write most of my blog posts; I like its spell-checking and formatting (as opposed to the primitive capabilities of Blogger.com’s built-in editor), and I especially like the “smart quotes” feature, which automatically inserts “real” quotes (like the preceding) instead of the tacky “telegraph-style” quotes you get otherwise. It also puts in genuine apostrophes: I don’t like the ones like the preceding, while I can’t help loving the real ones.

The problem, however, is this: how does one get what one has written from Word to one’s blog?




The new Word 2007 is supposed to have blog integration built in; nice thought, but it doesn’t help those of us who don’t have (and can’t afford) Word 2007. I’ve been using a Word add-in (from Google, the owner of Blogger.com and much else of the universe) called Blogger for Word; this allowed me to manage blog posts and send new ones to my blogs, right from Word. Only two problems: First, it doesn’t work on my office PC, where I do most of my writing; and second, it doesn’t support the new version of Blogger, which I’m now (perforce, more or less) using. Good-bye, Blogger for Word.

So what to do? After some frantic Googling, I’ve discovered a new tool that shows some promise: WriteToMyBlog. It’s a free, Web-based editor that allows you to manage posts, write and post new ones, insert pictures (using a range of hosting options), and do all sorts of other cute stuff. So far, the only feature I don’t see that I really want is the “smart quotes” (along with “smart apostrophe” and automatic N-dashes) – so you’re probably seeing this with a bunch of non-smart quotes. Sorry sorry sorry. If it actually works, it looks like a pretty decent tool – and if you can read this, it worked!


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  1. Tim says

    December 22, 2006 at 10:33

    Hi Don. I’m reading it, so it must have worked 😉

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