Desktop Blog Applications

I’m posting this from my desktop right now, with a text editor called ScribeFire for Firefox. It’s an add-on that sits in your toolbar, allowing you to blog immediately from your browser.

I found out about this from my friend, Electronic Frontier Foundation supporter Jon Lebkowsky. He’d been Twittering about it, but wasn’t too impressed. Still, I thought I’d give it a whirl.

Like Adobe Air, it removes some of the drag between online and offline. I can blog now, save this as a draft and publish immediately. All of the pertinent blog categories and pages are here, so I can tag correctly. I can even drag text and images directly from the Web to my blog.

It’s not perfect. Some of the text editor’s functions are wonky. I can’t, for instance, put a “read more” break, which isn’t great if I want to type a long post.

But toss in a “friends” list, allowing me to share notes and such with others, or even leave a note directly on a page and ping my “friends’ list”, and we start to have a real Read/Write Web.

UPDATE: You can also edit from this interface, add del.icio.us links, add Technorati tags and drag images direct to the text editor for publishing (and then you can resize it.

I’m in.