Flock: A Blogger’s Dream
I’ve had Flock on my computer several times. I’ve configured it, used it for half an hour and then fallen back on the sheer habit of using Firefox. It’s a web browser, after all, and kickin’ a browser habit is particularly hard. It was Flock 0.7 (Cardinal) that I had on my computers, sitting there untouched. Now 0.9 is out and I’ve barely left the program since I downloaded and installed it two days ago. In fact, I’m writing to you from Flock right now.
Flock is billed as the social web browser and I think it delivers in a big way. It may not integrate with any
of your social networks yet, but it does allow you to post blog entries from the browser as you surf, to add favorites to del.icio.us and other social bookmarking services with the click of a button built-in to the toolbar; even the “Mail this to a friend” feature common on many websites is actually a feature of the browser itself.
Your Flickr, Photobucket and YouTube accounts can also be accessed through Flock and the Media Bar allows you to easily drag photos and videos from your accounts straight into your blog posts. It’s nothing short of amazing.
Flock can also serve as an RSS feed reader, but I found that it wasn’t the best I’d ever used; it’s a bit basic and web-based for my liking. I like to read feeds pretty much the way I read email and NetNewsWire allows me to do that.
Perhaps my favorite feature of Flock is its most simple; the Web Clipboard. The Web Clipboard allows you to drag images and text from the web to a drawer that will hold them until you use them later. So simple, yet so useful.
There are two overarching categories of blog activity; writing and promotion. Flock will help you write more, which is the first step to having something to promote.
If you’re a blogger, Flock will dramatically increase your productivity. If you want to get your posts-per-day rate up, download it immediately; you’ll be posting incessantly as you surf! In a sentence: I don’t know how I lived without it!
Tags: flock, flock review
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 am
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