My BlogIt Debut

This morning, I learned about BlogIt from a Michael Arrington post on Techcrunch, and had to try it out for myself first thing.

BlogIt is a Facebook app from Six Apart (i.e. Typepad) that allows a blog entry from directly within Facebook. This kind of feature is not necessarily new. YouTube and Digg, for example, both allow the ability for users to link their blog accounts directly to the service and post blog entries from within their own environment. I’ve used these features in the past and they’re OK at best. I find myself wondering what’s the benefit of creating a blog post inside Digg’s rinky-dink plain-text editor, when I could use my Wordpress Rich Text Editor and just copy-n’-paste the link to the story I’ve recently Dugg.

BlogIt has a similar plain text editor. It allows HTML, if you’re so inclined. Other than dropping in my obligitory trackbacks to credit my sources, I don’t see myself getting too adventurous with HTML in the 15-row sized plain textarea box I’m provided here. I’m also interested to see what kind of self-promotion links or credits are appended to my post from Six Apart.

BlogIt’s differentiator is the ability to automatically alert other social media sites of posts created through BlogIt. It will update your Facebook status and your Twitter account. I already have my Twitter account updating my FriendFeed account. My Twitter account already updates my Facebook status. My FeedBurner account updates others when my blog is updated. Seems convoluted? Maybe. But now, quick blog posts I generate from BlogIt will be announced via Facebook Status, Facebook mini-feed, Twitter, FriendFeed, and opt-in emails from Feedburner. Not to mention anyone who’s subscribed directly to my blog’s RSS feed.

I’m looking forward to reviewing BlogIt’s potential impact on my readership, and will make sure to provide a follow-up comment after I’ve used it for some time.

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  1. Update on Blog it « Boston Internet Marketing says:
    May 3, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    [...] was really excited by Blog it when it first came out. After using it a couple of times, I’m starting to think a blog post [...]

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