Mac Blog Editors - Part 2

Flock - The Social Web Browser

Following on from my recent post on my continuing search for a Mac Blog Editor, I was reminded of one I hadn’t thought of’ Flock. If you are not familiar with it, Flock is a Web Browser based upon Mozilla Firefox. Flock’s creators call it a “social browser”, as it interact with popular social networking web services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Photobucket, as well as various popular blogging and news aggregation services.

Flock arrived on the scene about 2 years ago, and arrived with a bit of fanfare. Since then its popularity has wained; I myself had not installed it on my latest Mac, until today. I was reading a quick article about TechCrunch40 and saw that Flock had been there. I thought I’d check it out again, primarily to test its Blog editor.

Some things that grabbed me straight away, was its ‘Blog This’ feature. While not ground breaking, it works seamlessly.

There are however a couple of features lacking in the editor.

• You cannot add images from your computer until you have setup an online account with one of the image services such as Flickr or Photobucket.
• Categories are not imported. Categories are selected when you publish the post.

I will probably find more issues Flock once I have had more time with it.

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, mac, blog editor