ScribeFire

The best part about ScribeFire is the fact that I’m writing this entry while simultaneously having the ScribeFire page opened on my browser.
Forget the crazy clicking and trying to figure out all the tabs I’m going through browsing — ScribeFire lives right on my browser so I don’t have to click back and forth through tabs. I no longer have to copy and paste my entries, I can just select and drop (this is the same for images too!)

This makes blogging much less laborious and much faster to communicate ideas and thoughts. The application directly links to my Wordpress account and lists all the entries I have to be able to edit. If you have more than one blog, it could load multiple blogs also! Just like Zotero, another Mozilla add-on, there is an icon at the bottom right of my browser. If I ever stumble upon something striking or interesting and have the urge to write about it, I simply click the icon and create a new entry or a note. I can also simply press F8 (fn+F8 for Mac users) if I want to start a new post or note. This entry will then save as a draft or note for me to get back to later.

Other features include the same tools that edublogs use for their entries. This makes formatting easy for me and adding visuals more convenient. They even have a YouTube and Flikr tool icon!

The application also has other icons that Edublogs doesn’t have like wrapping texts for pictures. I could wrap justified left or justified right to make my blog aesthetically wonderful.

This is great for my discipline because I read a variety of blog articles daily and I don’t have the patience to put in the energy to load up my edublogs site. It always bothered me to flip back and forth to make reference to topics, but having the ScribeFire icon on the bottom corner makes it more available. Ironically, I found this application through reading the Kitsunenoir blogsite. Keeping up with blogging is hard–let alone the art and culture field I am interested in. I need to writing about the subjects immediately before they die out. If I communicate the art and culture news faster, my blog will gain more authority and more popularity. Having this application is wonderful for my practice because it increases the amount of posts on my blogsite.

Every time I venture into the Web 2.0 world, I find more and more ways to shortcut my habits to make things less complicated. I can accomplish much more and find application to contain all the good content I find. The best of this all is making visual representation easier. ScribFire helps me exemplify my enthusiasm for the content I find by providing a vehicle for me to present my enthusiasm. Being that I am also a person with short attention span, I am easily distracted by links and pictures. ScribeFire also has tabbed editing for different post topics so I can open multiple posts or notes at the same time. There are also ways for me to share my posts through del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites.

The only negative thing about this application is that it doesn’t live on the web and cannot be saved and opened from any computer. However, if you start the draft on your blogs website, ScribeFire will pick it up and permanently save it on the web application the next time you install the add-on on a different computer. If someone were to start a blog post from the application, the post won’t be able to live on the web, only on your personal computer.

The website seems to indicate that the application was produced around July 2007 by creater Christopher Finke. ScribeFire1.4.1 was released with different options than the 2.0 I am using now. As time progressed, 1.4.2 – 1.4.8 was released, reaching 2.0 yesterday. Looking at the blog for the site, they seem to progressive effectively to improve the program. They rely on user feedback which creates a brighter future for this application.