I am hopefully going to rectify that and start disceplening myself more to publish post on a more regular basis. To my defense though, I have been posting on my companies internal blog and I just realized why try and post to two blogs when I can just take these internal articles and post them here. I will however sanitize them so that if there happens to be any sensitive data  (names, numbers, project specifics, etc) will be generalized orr take out. 

So starting tomorrow I am going to be publishing the these posts ( I don’t think I can them articles) and hopefully this will get me in the habbit of posting one article a week. 

Previously I was using the demo version of BlogJet. BlogJet is a great tool but I couldn’t justify spending £29.95 (or about $60 CDN) on a blogging tool even with all its features. I am more into the free solutions for blogging since it is not an income generator but a tool for me to place my random thoughts and interests online to share and to archive.

Using Google Docs as my blogging tool will be good but there are a bunch of feature that I will be missing. The first will be the selecting a category for the article. It seems that Google has allowed for the Docs tagging system as a way to map to the categories on your blog.

“To automatically categorize your blog posts, just tag your documents with a category name you already use on your blog site.”

This will limit you on categorizing you posts to ones already generated on the blog. So I guess you better have all your categories setup before hand. I am not sure if I add the category after the article is publish, if it will automatically be placed in there or if I would have to republish the article from Google Docs or manually place the article in the category. I guess some testing is in order.

Another feature that I would like to see is for Google to add the ability to actually tag the articles as well. I am using a self hosted Wordpress install as my blog engine and with it I can tag each article with key words that help search the site to find similar article. It would be great if on the publish tab I could add a bunch of tags and have them posted with my article.

Probably not the last feature but the last feature for this article, I would like to see a way to postpone publishing. Some sort of method to be able to have a few articles in the queue and have them posted when I specify. This would be something like the feature in PixelPost, which I use for my photoblog. I can upload a bunch of photo’s to and for each one specify the date and time on when to publish them. For this though I guess on the publish tab there would be a “publish now” button and a “publish later” button that has a date and time entry field associated with it. When the date and time come up the article gets automatically published.

I will continue to use Google Docs for now and see where it takes me and how useful it is. This might not be powerful enough for everyone but I think it should suffice for me.

Update: 

Well it looks like the Title is not working for Wordpress, as I had to manually add the title on this entry.
As well there categorizing did not work either. I have my docs in a folder called “blog” and subfolders for each category and it posted the entry under uncategorized (the default category).
As an FYI folders are Google’s tags.