This section of Northern Voice covers 5 minute lightning talks on various blogging tools.

Roland Tanglao
Flickr
This is a tool we both love. We have a Flickr album (see here) and you can also see all the photos from Northern Voice (here). Social photosharing service. Can search without being logged in. You can do a slideshow of the photos too - one that does not take forever to load. You can be a part of various groups organized by tags - for example, the Vancouver group.

Flickr makes file sharing easy - you can see other people’s photos easily (most recent of Everybody), those of your contacts (like your friends and family), and easily upload photos online, via email, or with a downloadable tool.

Your personal homepage on Flickr is like a blog - a lifeblog. You can set your pictures as private or public, and, a great little thing, you can add comments to PARTS of pictures. You can add names to people in photos, for example. The comments come up when you hover your mouse.

The great feature offered by Flickr is its integration with blogging. 1. you can post to your blog from within Flickr. 2. you can add a Flickr album to your website such as we have done - with a random generation of images from your public folders.

Dave Shea
mezzoblue.com
Workflow on his Mac. How he posts stuff on his blog using Mac specific tools.
He demonstrates how he finds something interesting and how he posts its. He just made me want a Mac so I can do that cool thing with the window drang and drop. Uses NetNewsWire to read RSS feeds. When he finds something interesting he uses MarsEdit to post it by dragging it to the new post window. He also uses Quicksilver.

Triss Hussey
Chief Blogging Officer of Qumana (personal blog: View from the Isle)
Finds something to blog about and drops it in his Qumana drop pad. He also drops pictures or anything else he wants to post (pictures, text). Checks his spelling, floats the picture to the left.
But he says that is too much work. So with one click in Lektora he can post something automatically.

Seb
Webjay.org
You get a list of playlist and anyone can make a new one. It ojnly hosts links to files that are freely downloadable online. Click on a playlist you find interesting: Extreme Lounge Terror (International). Choose how to listen to it and click on Play. You can add songs to your own playlist. Webjay also does video.

Robert Scoble
Find things with Feedster, click on it to subscribe with NewsGator. Uses Technorati to see how many links there are to his blog.
Memeorandum matches news to what bloggers say.
GdayWorld: A podcast from Australia.
Uses NewsGator and finds something, drags it to his BlogThis folder and then he posts it to Scobleizer.
He has a SmartPhone and he can use NewsGator to read his feeds. Also on the TV.

Nancy
Blogger
Compresses the whole thing to 10 seconds :)
She blogs because she wants to save the world. Needs to use a tool that is freely available. It took her a while to figure out how to actually host it on her own website. It shouldn’t be so hard.
How do you get those cool things on the sidebar? Blogroll: go to Bloglines and figures out how to do it. Subscribes to 1000 blogs and sorts them in folders. Didn’t know Blogger now has comments.
Picasa to organize her pictures. She can put the picture in her blog without having to resize it manually.
How do we help other people and make it simpler for them to do this stuff?