Six Apart and Facebook Create Web-Wide Blogging Tool

With so many blogging tools out there — and so many bloggers trying to earn some bucks with advertising networks — as well as dozens of social networks, it’s getting increasingly difficult and time-consuming to manage so many different online presences.

Six Apart has at least a partial solution. The maker of the popular blogging software MovableType and TypePad has partnered with Facebook to create BlogIt, a write-once, publish-many solution.

“BlogIt brings some of the best social aspects of Facebook to blogging, making it easy to blog from within Facebook and tell humans you know all around the Web that you’re doing so,” said David Recordon, the open-platforms tech lead at Six Apart.

Twitter, Too

The program, which is used within Facebook, supports not only Six Apart’s platforms, but additionally many others, including Blogger, LiveJournal, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, Vox, WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

“By bridging the gap amoung blogging and social networking, Six Apart brings social tools

to bloggers all by the Web no matter the publishing platform they use,” Recordon said. “BlogIt is a potential tool for bloggers who want to spread the word to their friends and colleagues about the substance they’re creating.”

In addition, BlogIt can send a report to the Twitter and Pownce wide-awake systems, making it easy for bloggers’ subscribers to find out when they prepare a new post.

“Twitter makes it easy for anybody to tell their friends or the world what they’re up to,” said Evan Williams, Twitter’s founder. “BlogIt works perfectly with that goal.”

News From Cambodia

“After using Facebook for four years, it’s the first place I go to stay in touch with my largest social network,” said Jessica Young, a Kiva Fellow in Cambodia. “I’m based in Cambodia now, and I was keeping in touch with my friends and family through my personal blog on Vox,…

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