Comments on: Blogging Workflow – Tabbed Browsing

By: bybrifsadasty

bybrifsadasty — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:49 +0000

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

By: John

John — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:46:47 +0000

I do the same sort of thing (I use My IE). I go to Bloglines, click on the posts that look interesting (which creates a new tab for each), then I review each in detail. But instead of looking at them only for post content, I specifically look for ones that 1) will teach me something (which you usually do) and 2) ones that I can leave valid and useful comments on.

Since I run four blogs, I often go through 20-30 articles that meet my criteria and I usually read 5-10 and comment on 5-10.

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Fri, 20 May 2005 03:32:00 +0000

I use Bloglines’ “clip to folder” feature rather than opening up everything in tabs. I clip items to folders for each weblog as I come across them, then later I open the folder and start blogging. Darren manages to post far more than me, though, so maybe I should use tabs.

Darren: Thanks for the suggestion to open a folder of statistics pages in tabs–BRILLIANT. I’m going to set that up right now, then spend an hour smacking myself in the head for not thinking of that a year ago…

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Fri, 20 May 2005 03:24:50 +0000

I use FireFox and tabs in a similar way to you. Though I post using the online interface of MovableType, not Etco, because I have gotten used to writing in a web browser (like I am doing now!). It works for me. Bloglines and email both help me get lots of tabs going.

Often times I’ll open up stories/prs that are iffy and keep them all in one window in multiple tabs. I’ll put it in the dock and look at it a few times throughout the day. Usually at least one of these gets posted.

By: chrispian

chrispian — Fri, 20 May 2005 02:48:39 +0000

Darren, do you have a web cam over my keyboard? Other than using firefox insteand of safari, I do things the same way as you. I experimented with clipblogging some of my stuff, but found it was just more work than was useful.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 20 May 2005 02:21:08 +0000

Yep that’s what I meant in my post above Danger – I open a folder of in tabs (ie my stats folder, my blogs folder, my earnings folder). I don’t think i really communicated that too well in the post.

In terms of which news to post – there are probably a number of factors:

1. does it relate to my blog’s focus?
2. is it well written and legitimate information?
3. is it out of date information?
4. have I already written something on this recently?

All of these factors come into play

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Fri, 20 May 2005 01:17:42 +0000

Darren, how do you decide which news to post? Is your only criteria that it be relevant to your site’s theme and not redundant or do you have a higher standard than that?

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Fri, 20 May 2005 01:16:23 +0000

Firefox has a neat trick where you can open a whole folder of bookmarks in tabs. The first thing I do in the morning is open two FireFox windows. In one I middle-click on the folder containing my bookmarked stats pages and it opens the billion or so windows that stats entail. In the second window I open my Digital Point keyword tracker, Adsense, Gmail, Slashdot (for fun), all the unread ProBlogger entries, and Google news.
Once I finish with those two windows I’m able to start my day. For reading post-worthy RSS feeds I generally use a non-web-based aggregator for Linux.