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Easier blogging with Zemanta
When I write a blog post, I often spend almost as long looking for good links to complement my point.
I am writing this post with the help of Zemanta, which sits on top of your blogging application and suggests Wikipedia links, maps, homepages that are related to the words you have written.
All the links in this post have been generated simply by clicking on the tags in the WordPress interface and selecting the preferred option if there is more than on. For instance, to link to Firefox I could choose to link to a map, the homepage, the Wikipedia entry or the corresponding Crunchbase page for it.
The linked words withing this post and the group of links at the bottom pointing to related articles were suggested based on this post's keywords, and turned into links with one click.
Zemanta also suggests related images that can be incorporated in your post just as easily but I have chosen not to add any to this post.
If Zemanta manages to integrage my workflow nicely, I could see it becoming an important part of my blogging and could even push me to write more, as it removes the pain of finding and placing contextual links.
I have tested both the Firefox extension and the WordPress plugin and both work pretty wel. The extension is set up in a matter of minutes and it offers the same functionalities as the plugin.
Friday 10 October 2008 at 3:02 pm
Welcome to the Zemanta community :) To get more precise images, you can also use the "filter" option, to manually search for exactly what you want to add to your blog.
If you have any questions or ideas, we'd love to hear about it our forum – getsatisfaction.com/zemanta or you can just drop me a mail – jure@zemanta.com
Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta