The interface sits in a size-adjustable pane in the lower part of your browser. You can browse and draft your post from one screen. This is handy for pulling quotes from other blogs, grabbing links, compiling across multiple blogs, etc.

The entry form is HUGE. You can switch views to Html editing and Preview. Another tabbed screen will show you Technorati and Web backlinks to the page you are viewing in the browser.

I can go on & on about it.

But, I have been using ScribeFire for Firefox which adds a few functions that are lacking in Blogger.

One is you can Ping multiple sources when you publish. Included in the list are Pingomatic, Technorati, Weblogs, Blo.gs, Blogrolling and IceRocket. Currently I ping Technorati, Weblogs and IceRocket when I post.

The other feature, which Blogger should have adopted years ago, is the ability to send Trackbacks. As soon as you publish, bam, it shows up on the other site.

You can also embed Technorati tags into the body of your post. This is accomplished via a simple text box with comma seperated tags. If you have a Delicious account, you can opt in to post your tags there as well.

@Chris - I am using the three mentioned above and it seems to work fairly well. I have not had any problems with it. If I knew how to hack the javascript in ScribeFire, I could probably add your list into it — maybe I will look into that one of these days.

I know that in WordPress, you can add to the list of services to automatically ping whenever new content is published. I wondered if anyone has any tips on how to do something similar with a Blogger-based blog.

Or, if nothing else, maybe some way to hit all of those sites in your Ping Services List manually after publishing a new post on Blogger. Maybe there’s some kind of script I could manually fire off?

I typically use PingGoat & Pingomatic, but that seems to only catch a portion of the possible ping sites.

Hey Maki, hope it helps

I’m not sure why my posts take so long to show up on Feedburner as well.

I’m using a ping list that has around 10 sites.. forgot where I actually got the list from.

I’ve just taken your list and used it instead of my own. Hopefully it’ll work better. Will try to update if I see any differences

The extra pinging (I think) raises a flag on their end and may errantly mark you as a splog — in which case your index there will not get updated. To clear it, you have to fill out a support ticket, unless they see it and clear it manually.

But I notice delays on various services from time to time, while the others update promptly. I am talking about Technorati, MyYahoo, GoogleReader, Bloglines. Sometimes one is slow, then later they are all good to go.

So I don’t know if it has anything to do with how you ping. Hell, I waited 4 hours for a post on BlogSpot to make it into my G-Reader — whats up with that?

I didn’t register with any of these specifically David, I found this list somewhere about a day after I first installed WordPress and have used them ever since.

I’ve just found it annoying recently, how GR is slow to update some of my favourite reads, and this is all I can put it down to.