A dream blogging platform

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13 December, 2011

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I have not been writing for quite a while except for the one time I forced myself because I had to write. It is not because I have been doing too much work or been on a trip to the Antartctica. It is not because I have not been creating content. Anybody who follows me on Twitter and other social networks knows I post something or the other almost everyday. I am still writing but on a different medium.

And that is exactly what has changed. The way I create content. Stuff I want to write about on my blog (not sure it is a blog anymore too, probably just a journal) is what I already do intertwined with certain long form posts when I need to talk about something in the open.
I do not want to manage 3 blogs, where on one I post about my personal stuff, another for design and another for tech and startups. They are all my passions and together make me, so it makes a lot more sense for me to have them all in one place.

In light of that I have been exploring options of a new blogging platform that makes it as easy for me to quickly snap a picture from my mobile and post about the amazing typography on the street sign I just saw as it does for me to sit back at night and write in a minimal interface like IAWriter or Ommwriter.
I am not even sure I need a hosted solution anymore. I would be happy to have my site powered by Dropbox if there were such a solution.

So here is what I would like from my ideal setup:

  • Be able to write in a text editor of my choice OR the writing interface is minimal
  • Has a great mobile app that is almost as powerful as the web version. If that means cutting on features of the web versions, so be it.
  • Allows me to quickly post from any page on the web scrapping relevant content like text, videos, photos etc from that page a la Tumblr.
  • Allows native cross-posting of stuff from other social networks like Foursquare, Instagram, Flickr, Twitter. I would prefer this to be inherently built in the app in a fashion similar to Storify so that I can quickly choose a picture I just uploaded to Instagram and make it the latest post on my blog.
  • If there is a possibility of using Dropbox as a storage solution, so be it.
  • Uses Twitter/Facebook as the only medium of comment.

I have been trying to look for such a solution for some time and have not found any. If at all there is something that is in the interwebs that can make me do this, please let me know. I honestly do not want to spend time on creating such a setup from scratch or hacking WordPress to do it.

You should follow me on Twitter: @tuhin

  • Linmu3

    Have seen what Dave Winer is doing? Blork … http://scripting.com/stories/2011/04/05/gettingStartedWithBlork.html

  • Guest

    There has to be a better comment system than Twitter/Facebook. 

  • David Lance

    Well this is interesting. We have similar lists. Here’s mine.
    ~ Be able to write in MS Word or PageMaker or inDesign or Quark or (aghast ~ FrameMaker). Save it. Edit it. Sleep on it. Come back tomorrow. Polish. Search for the right nuance. The right subtle phrase. Then save it again. Sleep on it again. Come back and read it one last time. Cut and paste it. Then publish it.~ Has
    a great mobile app that is twice as powerful as the web version. And the web version is twice is powerful as the mobile version. So be it.~ Allows
    me to quickly cut and paste any content, or link to any page on the web. Warts and all. ~ Note to self: I need to study Foursquare, Instagram, Storify and Dropbox.

    ~ Uses Twitter/Facebook as the only medium of comment. Well, except this one.

    ~ ;-)

    Dave Lance