My experience with using Google docs with Wordpress – read and make up your mind
This post is written in Google Docs – which means that it is both a test and a review of how it is to use Google Docs for wordpress.
Setup
Setting up Google docs to publish to my blog is pretty easy (here is a nice guide with screen shots).
Name
I’ve named document “Using Google Docs to publish to wordpress” in the hope that this will be the name of the post.
Categories
I’ve tagged the document with the tags “Blogging” and “Google Docs”.
Pics
Here I’ve put in a picture in order to test if that works (I could probably read this somewhere but I’m lazy)
General usage
Pros
-The editor has a bigger window, this makes it more comfortable especially with long posts
- A nice intuitive editor. I find it much better than the one in Wordpress
- Spell check (also possible in Wordpress admin)
- Integrated in Google Dics which I use for many other things.
- Fast editor (I use it any way for drafts)
Cons
- No access to the more advanced features in Wordpress like tags and time.
———Update af publishing——————
- I’ve had to ad title and categories manually
November 14th, 2006
It looks like the anonymity of comment section has been misused.
Some time ago Tech Tag received two very critical comments on two posts about Scheduleworld (post 1, post2). Then a few weeks later the pattern repeated it self. Two identical comments where posted on the same two post, but from a different IP.
Comment 1
Claims to be from a someone whose Scheduleworld account has been compromised, and that his comments asking about it in the Scheduleworld support forum has been deleted.
Comment 2
Claims that critical questions in the Scheduleworld forum has been deleted, and has led to the account being deleted.
To get an idea of what is going on I wrote a a mail to Scheduleworlds support, and confronted them with the the allegations from the comment section. Within 30 minutes I received an email answering all my questions.
The answer from Scheduleworld.
I got the answer from Scheduleworld that messages had been deleted from the forum.
“I have only deleted comments from one person – the same user that posted these comments to your site (I believe they are the same person).”
The email stated.
On the other hand Scheduleworld denies deleting any accounts.
“I have never deleted an account unless the person asks me to. I haven’t even deleted the accounts this poster used to fabricate complaints with.Scheduleworld finds it a very theoretical that someone should have compromised accounts.
There are a number of things that could explain this complaint besides the poster being a competitor. I don’t believe it, but perhaps the poster actually is a victim and someone else sniffed his HTTP traffic. Perhaps someone else retrieved his information by tapping his keyboard, or a virus snooped his keystrokes or network traffic.”
No answer from the other side
I then sent an email to the addresses used for the different comments. One of them bounced, and I’ve received no answer to the other message. Adding to that both email addresses used for commenting, where supplied by spam services which offer free use-and-dispose email addresses.
The comments are mutually excluding, meaning that that if they are true it must be two different persons, and they are from different IP addresses. But they share some similarities. They are are almost identical two and two, made at the same time and made in the same tone.
Comments based on a lie?
Based on the lacking answer and the extra means taken to stay anonymous. I see no other conclusion, than to conclude that these comments were most likely based on a lies. But if someone think something else, please let me know.
Whether this is a lie or not, the fact that there is an insecurity about commets is a problem to the whole blogosphere. It reduces the value of actual comments and risks making the blogossphere seem amateurish to outsiders.
November 13th, 2006
I’m trying out a number of themes these days. This week it is Jason Golods Adsens Ready theme. It is a more clean theme.
I some time I’ll try to compose a post with my experience and evaluation of the themes.
October 18th, 2006
After using the nice looking blix theme for a couple of month it seems time to try out something new. My ambition was to make my own theme, but i finally realized that I’m lousy at designing and have less and less sparetime to work on things like that.
I’m trying out this theme, “Problogger clean“, because of its focus on the text and for all the great features.
The advantage for the reader is that even though it is an ad heavy theme, the ads can be switched completely off.
October 11th, 2006
I got inspired by Shoemoneys post on the link experiment. He asked if this was the next million dollar idea. Since he is “Mr. Money” I joined the hype and bought a ten dollar link. What I got was three days on the main page and five refferals.
My logic was that either this hype would not start, and I would have a permanent link on the main page. Or the hype would take of and sub-page with all the old links would get loads of traffic. So fare my logic has failed completely, I’m off the main page and is getting no traffic at all from the sub-page.
October 2nd, 2006
On David Naylors block he presents a meta search tool called Zippy. I just tried it out, at it gave a lot of cool information on my website. It tells you exactly which pages has been indexed by which search engine things. I told that most of Tech Tag has been indexed by Google, MSN and Yahoo, and that it in no way is indexed by ask.com. I will be looking in to this in the next couple of days.
September 12th, 2006
