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Richie sent me to get ScribeFire today. This is a Firefox browser plug-in that adds a blogging tool to the browser framework. Now, waaaaay down in the lower right corner of my window I see a little edit icon. Clicking on it pulls up a half-sized window with a text editor and several controls to make blogging more integrated with whatever it is I am doing at the time. Maybe I’ll use it a while, and see what happens.

Richie, always on the lookout for distractions to take me away from end-of-semester research papers, sent me to get ScribeFire today. This is a Firefox browser plug-in that adds a blogging tool to the browser framework. Now, waaaaay down in the lower right corner of my window I see a little edit icon. Clicking on it pulls up a half-sized window with a text editor and several controls to make blogging more integrated with whatever it is I am doing at the time.

Clearly, the tool works (this post was ScribeFired). However, I’m not seeing any great advantage over just using the WordPress control panels, which has the added plus of auto-saving my drafts. I also like to pop external links out into new windows, something I don’t see as an option here. The tool does pull in my categories, but not in the nice nested structure I use, losing some context.

I’m sure Richie would insist I don’t get it because I’m not using it yet, mentioning drag-n-drop capabilities for links and the convenience of keeping half of the window devoted to whatever page I am currently browsing. ScribeFire also allows for multiple blogs to be integrated, which might help some of my other blogging efforts. It also integrates with del.icio.us and technorati.

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By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

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I completely understand. I’m up to my eyeballs in a social informatics research paper, followed by CHI and the start of an internship in California (mostly telecommuting). I’ve also got presentations to watch for the 2nd semester, 1st year masters design students next week.

ScribeFire would be a really useful tool for me if it allowed one to keep tabs on blog comment threads. Maybe with some notification when a comment I made might have had a response.

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