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The Trials of Posting #1

I am very accustomed to posting using Blog It! (where I always post drafts) and using the Blogger Edit page where I promote drafts to published and sometimes make new creations.

This moment, I am using a Blogger posting plug-in in NewsGator.  I'm evaluating the prospects for this kind of posting.  It seems too much like sending myself an e-mail.  I don't have the context and sense of authoring that I have in other cases.  With Blog It! (the Java scriplet that fits into a My Links URL) I have the page that I am "clipping" and filing in my blog.  With the editor, I have the body of material I am working on, I have its preview, and I have the context of my existing current posts as well as any pages that I refer to while composing.

Here, I'm simply in Outlook and, as I said, I feel like I'm writing e-mail to myself.

It's time to see what this looks like and whether the operability of the plug-in has survived the great Blogger Reloaded upgrade.

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Well, that was interesting.  From now on I will ask to post drafts and see if that avoids sending crude draft out on my feed.  There are also some style matters to deal with, and formatting to anticipate.  This was a successful experiment, but it is a risk-ladden arrangement. Next! Confirming that I can e-mail to my Blogger blog.
posted by Dennis at 5/15/2004 07:25:20 PM