I am such a nerd/geek (for a good discussion on what the difference is, check out Brad Feld's article here), that I read this post in Fred Wilson's blog on Zemanta and had to check it out for myself. I am using it on this post and the previous one on Starbucks being sued by T-Mobile.

So far I am really impressed with how Zemanta works. It gives you a whole bunch of content related that you can use on your blog.  Pictures, related articles, links and tags. It also makes it easy to reblog.  It works right in my Typepad blog editor.  The only thing I can think of is that I would like to see it work in Windows LiveWriter and Scribefire, the two blog editor that I use for most of my stuff.  But Zemanta is good enough that I don't mind using the Typepad editor to get this functionality!

So what do you think?  It is more noise or does it add value?  Leave a comment and let me know

For a long time I have been using the Scribefire plug in for Firefox as my blog editor.  I love the ability to split the screen in Firefox and write my blog article right under the page I am writing about.  Scribefire has gone through some changes over the years.  It was originally Performancing for Firefox, but when that was bought, it became a commercial product for a while and now appears to be open source without a corporate sponsor.  All I knew or cared about was that it worked (maybe there is a lesson there about open source software somewhere).

With the most recent update though a nasty little bug (nasty to me, but they don't think it is so urgent) was introduced where if you leave more than one space a nbsp; is added.  Not just a blank space but the actual letters and characters.  I am from the old school where I space twice at the end of a sentence. So at every sentence end I get one of these and than I have to go in and take them out by hand.  It is a major pain in the butt.

So I have switched over to Windows Live Writer. I had looked at it sometime ago and there were a few reasons I stayed with Scribefire.  But the latest release of Live Writer actually gives me tables and insertion of video that Scribefire doesn't.  I still miss the split screen, but I can launch it from Firefox. 

I will look at Scribefire again perhaps when they fix this bug.  But every day I use Live Writer I grow more comfortable with it. By the time Scribefire fixes their issues, it may be too late!

For a long time I have been using the Scribefire plug in for Firefox as my blog editor.  I love the ability to split the screen in Firefox and write my blog article right under the page I am writing about.  Scribefire has gone through some changes over the years.  It was originally Performancing for Firefox, but when that was bought, it became a commercial product for a while and now appears to be open source without a corporate sponsor.  All I knew or cared about was that it worked (maybe there is a lesson there about open source software somewhere).

With the most recent update though a nasty little bug (nasty to me, but they don't think it is so urgent) was introduced where if you leave more than one space a nbsp; is added.  Not just a blank space but the actual letters and characters.  I am from the old school where I space twice at the end of a sentence. So at every sentence end I get one of these and than I have to go in and take them out by hand.  It is a major pain in the butt.

So I have switched over to Windows Live Writer. I had looked at it sometime ago and there were a few reasons I stayed with Scribefire.  But the latest release of Live Writer actually gives me tables and insertion of video that Scribefire doesn't.  I still miss the split screen, but I can launch it from Firefox. 

I will look at Scribefire again perhaps when they fix this bug.  But every day I use Live Writer I grow more comfortable with it. By the time Scribefire fixes their issues, it may be too late!