News Feeds to Your IM

(One of) the downsides to e-learning and e-assessment is the sense of isolation engendered. It can be nice to alleviate that with e-mail and chats to at least feel as though you are in a more social workplace than your front room.

What do you do, though, when none of your friends can play? I use IMFeeds to get RSS feeds piped directly to my IM window. I can then feel as though somebody wants to talk to me...

IM Feeds Beta - Welcome

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Blogging Tools

Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr

For a long time I've relied on ScribeFire to create and publish my blog entries. It integrates well with Firefox making it a one-click job to blog anything I've come across.

What's more difficult is finding other things to go with the post; images, links, tags and so on. (And when I say difficult I mean time-consuming.)

Zemanta have come up with an answer. Their tool will find (free) images, links to relevant stores, add in hyperlinks and all sorts of other nice things. Give it a try:

Blog me up! | Zemanta Ltd.

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