The White African is a friend of mine, though we’ve only met once at church. But he’s got a nice blog about technology and such. Great post today about his top 10 web tools for bloggers.
I’ve been trying to think of what to add to the list, and the only thing I can think of is Bloglines. I use it to scour the blogosphere to find the latest and greatest. That’s how I found this article. So, I guess it’s a good blog tool for me too!
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I have to say that I’m not a big fan of his list. FireFox, del.icio.us and flickr are all great tools, but none are what I’d consider “tools for bloggers”.
I’ve never used Blogbeat, but that’s because any decent hosting provider should supply a decent stats package. I tried both Google Analytics and Sitemeter, and found them both subpar compared to AWStats that my host provides me with.
IDS is a good tool if you already know what you’re looking for. If you’re experimenting, then a place like Nameboy (http://www.nameboy.com/) would probably be more useful.
I’m personally not a big fan of wordpress, but that’s partially because I’m a ColdFusion developer. Instead, I’ve actually written all the software for my blogs.
I would use Zookoda on the principle that it’s another ColdFusion site, but it’s much more convenient to use Feedburner’s services since I was already using them.
I personally hate Technorati almost as much as I hate MySpace. Their tagging makes searching for anything useful almost impossible because there are no real standards. Plus, their robots do a terrible job of parsing many blogs. I use it currently because there is nothing else, but wish there were something much better.
And dreamhosts prices sound a little on the high side compared to what I’m paying over at OurInternet.us.