Test post from BlogMailr

November 7, 2006

Telligent: BlogMailr: The guys at Telligent just released a cool new app that allows you to publish to your blog via email. The concept started as a feature in their Community Server platform.

BlogMailr is all about making publishing to your blog easy. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, it?s free for personal use, and works with all popular blogging software.

The sign up was incredibly simple and it worked with WordPress without a problem. I like their site and it looks like they’ve put a ton of thought into making the site very easy to use. However, I’m not quite sure that I agree with their basic premise:

Publishing to your blog is more difficult than it needs to be. Most blogs either have really confusing publishing tools with too many options or you are forced to download and install software on your computer.

While it is probably more of a marketing spin and includes a little bit of hyperbole, I don’t think that publishing needs to be any easier than it already is. I use WordPress and the admin interface is pretty simple and easy to work with. The advanced options are tucked away quite nicely and are there if I need them. And of course, since I am using WordPress, there is nothing for me to download and install.

While this might be a convenient tool for people who rely on BlackBerry or other type of email PDA, I think for most people it really isn’t necessary. There is a still a lot of stuff that I need to do in my admin console (approve posts, delete Akismet splogs, etc.) so I probably won’t be using it much.

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Posted by Matt Smith | Filed Under General 

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One Response to “Test post from BlogMailr”

  1. Matt on November 22nd, 2006 4:09 pm

    As a follow-up to this post, I had to go back in and clean things up to my liking. There are three things I didn’t like about the posting experience with BlogMailr:

    1. I ended up with two posts about 7 minutes apart. I’m sure this was probably some type of opening day jitters, but it definitely wasn’t expected.
    2. The links that I had added to the email were mangled in the final post output. I’m sure there is a probably a specific way to do it, but it sure didn’t like me doing it with standard HTML.
    3. Of course, nothing in life is really free so they included a nice little BlogMailr signature onto the end of the post. I can’t blame them for doing it, but I can do without it.

    Again, I’m sure the product probably fills a specific need for some people, but I don’t see myself as one of them.

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