Shepard Road

I have been attempting to put more time into producing and sharing content more often and more consistently. In doing this, I have been also trying to exercise restraint in looking at the tools I am using. My favorite tool for blogging, hands down, is Windows Live Writer…however, I am impatient in that there is no native support for Posterous (not sure why) and the recently released Google+ API does not support write functions (yet).

I am still sorting out my tools, and would like to be able to continue using WLW as my go-to tool for putting content together and publishing it as my publishing targets change and grow. Maybe it’s the OO (Object Oriented) developer in my, but the idea of having a single tool to abstract my publishing activities from the actual targets is one that I am stuck on…this means that when the next big content publishing platform emerges, I will not have to re-tool, but simply add it to the list of targets.

While there are many great platforms available, one of the features that has gotten me into trouble and caused almost as much, is cross-posting…this can become a mess very quickly if I post directly to one of my Posterous Spaces that is configured to cross-post to my WordPress blog and my Ping.fm account which cross-posts to my WordPress blog, etc., etc., etc…Using at tool like Live Writer can address this type of issue, but only if its support for the ever-increasing number of available platforms keeps up with growth in the number of content publishing platform offerings.

This will be an interesting development as the makeup of the blogosphere shifts from simple content publishing to blending into the social content sharing space. The opportunity for this tool to remain relevant is at hand, and if it does not keep up with change, it will become just another great idea without sufficient execution.