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Blogmailr or Blog from Word ?

New ways to publish blogposts are popping up everywhere. I am pretty happy with blogging from Word 2007. The good thing about Word is that it shines in spell and grammar checks. Stand alone tools like blogjet and livewriter do have a check but one (by far) not as good as that of Office. Word also shines in the html it produces. The weak point in Word is publishing pictures in your blog.

BlogMailr is said to be very good in publishing a post. It works by sending an email to the blogmailr site which will publish the post to your blog.

To write an email I can use Outlook and I have the Office proofing tools working for me. So it’s worth a test to see if blogmailr can make the day.

1. Will this image show in my post?

3. What does the emitted HTML look like ?

4. This is italic and bold.

See you in the Community Server dashboard.

The (lacking) image speaks for itself.

And the HTML ? You don't want to know. Looks like Office 2003 :(

This makes Word 2007 a clear winner !

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Published Nov 13 2006, 02:43 PM by pvanooijen

Comments

Dennis van der Stelt said:

You need the new newMediaObject metablog update from the Community Server team. The server admin needs to 'install' it. (xcopy deployment ;-)

# November 13, 2006 2:47 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Two things I've against blogmailr is that you've to store your blog's credentials at their server and the second is that email is by definition an insecure platform: you can spoof anything in an email message plus you run the risk of sending it to the wrong person.

So if they use the old-skool mailinglist security stuff, that is: add your uid/pwd on the first two lines, you run the risk of sending the email to the wrong person. As a person who has had that once on a mailinglist: you'll not be happy and with outlook's emailaddress guessing while you type the emailaddress it's not as silly as it might sound.

If they check on from-address, it's very insecure, as that can be spoofed from any SMTP host.

So, do they require you to specify anything security related in the email?

# November 14, 2006 1:53 AM

pvanooijen said:

Blogmailr uses a lot of https on their site. They only accept posts sent to an address they supply from an address you supply. So it looks like they are doing their best to prevent spoofing. I don't see a problem in me sending a post to the wrong email-address: I want to publish a post, that person has a preview :)

Your blog credentials are stored on their server. That's a matter of trusting them. CS requires a lot of trust anyway, don't get me started on what damage I or any other CB blogger can do to each others blog. We trust each other. Do you trust blogmailr ?

My main point with blogmailr is the content it's posting. Just look what this post looks like in the overview. Yuck!

# November 14, 2006 3:45 AM

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