Web 2.0: Organizing feeds and posting while offline

During our session, we talked about subscribing to Blog, Wikis and other online feeds via RSS or Atom.  In the case of Blogs, you oftencan subscribe to the Blog itself or just the comment.  You only need to push the orange button in most cases to get to a page that instructs you to push a button or provides a URL to add to your aggregator.  So what is an aggregator?  It's  a Web application that puts syndicated content -- news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs -- into a single location.  (Wikipedia has a good explanation.)   In other words, you get a page of links.
You can choose from many aggregators, but Luis Suarez recommends Google Reader for external feeds.  Their sight offers a tour and features include recommending feeds to your friends and colleagues. Luis recommends Spectacular for subscriptions by IBMers to feeds behind the firewall. 

Those of you who make blogging part of your life may want to explore ScribeFire, which, according to Mozilla is "a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog."  Qumana and Windows Live Writer (which I haven't tried) are other offline blogging tools Luis recommends. 
Questions?  Comments?  Successes?  Learnings?  Just let me know. 

Comments

[Kathy King]

Peter
I love scribefire it is a really big help in this process
thanks for your great posts
you are doing a really important service with this blog in getting the word out about organizing content using web 2.0 technologies!

[Girija]

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