ScribeFire – An integrated blog editor for FireFox.

It all started with a lost comment in WordPress late one night. I spent almost an hour replying to someone on one of my blogs and my browser locked up. Needless to say, I got caught up in my writing and did not save my comment like I always try to do and of course, the worst thing that could happen did happen. I could not remember what I had written so I ended up looking for some type of editor with an auto save function.

While I was searching Google I happened upon the ScribeFire website. What I found was a full featured blog editor that integrates with FireFox. With ScribeFire, I can write posts and edit my blog from with my browser. It doesn’t seem to allow me to save comments like I was searching for but it seems to do some other things pretty well.

For writing a simple post like this one, ScribeFire more than fits the bill and I have a feeling that I will be using this instead of the admin panel on my blogs. It also offers some nice features that allow you to easily insert images and YouTube videos with a simple mouse click.

I need to spend some more time working with it but for now, I like it and I think you will too.

Is social media making our world a small world?

After reading an article about the small world theory from the Washington Post a few days ago, I have been thinking about how many people I have met through social media sites like Plurk and Twitter.  In the two short months that I have been using Plurk, I have almost 30 new friends.  Some friends are as close as a 30 minute drive and there are others who live a couple continents away.  These are people that I do not think I would have met if it was not for social media and the internet.

Do any of you feel that your world has gotten smaller?