Bloglines – Clip/Blog This ?

I wonder if Mark Fletcher will learn of this ?

Bloglines has a new (to me) feature, called “Clip/Blog This”.

It feels like this, and a few other niggling bits I’ve experience lately, change Blogline’s usability … not for the better.

In a departure from my usual blogging, in this post I’m going to (try to) be a bit more technology-oriented. It will be a stretch, of course, because I am pretty darned challenged in that area. Which in itself is a bit odd, since I am working with two colleagues in developing an advanced microcontent gathering, assembly and publishing application that we believe will add ease-of-use and (perhaps) a new dimension to blogging and blogging-like processes. I’m the resident wacko/visionary/sociologist.

Back to Bloglines “Clip/Blog This” feature … at the bottom of each blog post in Bloglines is the link that pulls up a dialogue box that allows you to publish the item to a destination as a link. Nice idea, but a bit awkward.

It would be much easier … slick, actually …. if there were just an icon (or keep the words “Clip/Blog This” … no matter) and when you clicked, the item would go automatically into the WorkPad of our new app, and then … one click on the item, and it’s in a full-function WYSIWYG Editor, with a wide range of publishing destinations, such as all your blogs, Adobe pdf, email and (eventually) integrated enterprise systems.

Our application is called Qumana, and it is proceeding to a small, semi-private soft-launch of the beta tool in the next couple of days.

A true “dynamic information hub”, on the horizon. Similar to the old-world roundabouts for trains in the trainyard, but for microcontent.