Filed under: Blogging, Productivity
Zemanta: it's like cruise control for blogging
If you love writing, but hate the grunt work of blogging - like inserting relevant links, tags, and images, Zemanta might be for you. It's available as an add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer, and a plug-in for Wordpress or Movable Type, and it automatically adds some useful stuff to your blog posts in progress on most of the major blogging platforms. It suggests links and applies them to the relevant words in your post with one click, and it also provides tags and a gallery of Creative-Commons-licensed Flickr photos you can drop in.
Zemanta currently supports Wordpress, Movable Type, LiveJournal, TypePad and Blogger, so the majority of blogs should be able to make use of it. It might be too blunt an instrument if you've got a really specific linking scheme going on at your blog, but for a post like this one, it came in handy: it automatically linked the word Zemanta to zemanta.com. Hey, we were going to do that by hand anyway. More importantly, it also grabs links to stories from places like CNN, the New York Times, and Technorati.
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Marco said 12:19PM on 6-06-2008
Im using it since a week or so. Never really worked. I'm writing about let's say the iPhone and it suggests me to use Flickr beer photos. Very useless... if it would work it would be a great idea!
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thesimian said 12:41PM on 6-06-2008
been using it for a couple of months....hooked
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Nicki Brøchner said 2:20PM on 6-06-2008
I have also been using it for some time now, and it is certainly getting better. most of the bugs and strange behaviours has been resolved. So I can only recommend it to anyone that is a bit lazy when it comes to the ground work on the blog ;D
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hnkelley said 6:45PM on 6-07-2008
Ha! I was just thinking about something like this last night and was expecting to have to code (skills I don't have) this manually via Google searches. This could be useful. That's assuming I do this blog I'm contemplating. Which, with my ratio of completions over ideas being so low, isn't likely. But cool none the less.
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Andraz Tori said 11:11PM on 8-13-2008
Good news!
Zemanta is now available as a LiveWriter plugin also!
Beside that, CrunchBase support was integrated and Amazon book covers are suggested.
Try it out
Andraz Tori, Zemanta
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