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Questions about writing and publishing web blogs from your desktops. Web-based blogging interfaces, such as Blogger, belong on Webapps.

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How do I link directly to a specific PART of a blog post or online article? (e.g. to a paragraph or heading)

I want to link to some really cool PART of an article, like this blog post announcing the card ageing power-up in Trello, amongst other things. What can I use, using Google Chrome, or in any browser in general, to produce a URL that when clicked,…
fatuhoku
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Is there a software that performs a textual analysis on blogs?

My company is looking to create a PivotViewer visualization of a client's Wordpress 2 blog posts for the last 11 years. To do so, however, we need to edit the somewhat haphazard, incomplete, and generally poor tags for use as sortable categories. …
Brian Bauman
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Is there a way to use markdown in Microsoft Live Writer?

I love the coding that Super User and all of the other StackExchange sites uses for editing/created questions and answers... markdown. It's easy to use. I'm wondering if there is a way to enable the use of markdown with Live Writer? Is there a…
James Mertz
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How do I copy a word document with pictures into a Blogger post?

I am trying to copy a Word document with some formatting (e.g. bulleted lists) and pictures to a blog post using Google's Blogger. When I do direct copy/paste, everything seems to copy over adequately except that the pictures show up as blank white…
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How do I add captions to a picture in windows live writer?

I just started to use Windows Live Writer and love the interface especially with the drag and drop pictures. However I cannot seem to be able to add captions below the images... How do I do this? Is there a plugin for that or am I just missing the…
James Mertz
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Firefox addon for managing text width

While reading, I prefer that the text width is "reasonably" small and centered in the middle of the window (just to make an example, pick a blog post layout or the layout of SuperUser itself, which I find easily readable). I am looking for a way to…
Francesco
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How can I get the latest N posts from blogger RSS feed?

How can I get the latest N posts from blogger RSS feed, using the URL in a browser, or some javascript? Which parameter do I have to use?
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dasBlog alternative

I've been using dasBlog for almost two years now, but I've recently upgraded. Unfortunately, the first page can take an unacceptably long time to load. It would take even longer, but I've already spent more time than I want to optimizing settings,…
Joel Coehoorn
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How to track blog changes without a feed?

Some of the blogs like the one from Datameer don't have any feeds, but still I would like to get the changes to the blog in Google Reader. Google Reader used to support this feature, but it no more works. Any alternatives?
Praveen Sripati
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How to backup blog running on posterous.com

I'd like to backup content of my blog which is powered by posterous.com. I'd like to save all texts and images to the local disk. Ability to browse it offline is a plus. What I've already tried: wget wget -mk http://myblogurl It downloads the first…
Martin Vobr
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Why doesn't Firefox show any kind of a feed presence indication when there is are RSS/Atom feeds associated with the page?

For example I've came to a webpage having the following tag inside its tag: Or a blogger.com blog having both RSS and Atom feeds…
Ivan
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How do RSS readers interact with advertisements?

Ok, I'm gonna start by saying I love RSS feeds, and I use my RSS reader to keep up with just about everything I read. Lately I've been wondering though, if the feeds are totally ad-free, am I actually not helping the website when I read its feed…
Malabarba
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What Kind of Spam is This? Testing Blog Comment Limits

I received this comment on one of my blogs today (on blogger.com): Easily I agree but I about the post should acquire more info then it has. It's the third in a series. Before there was: I will not acquiesce in on it. I over precise post.…
Dan Rosenstark
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Is there any online/desktop tool to keep up with blogs?

Is there any tool that can help to keep up with 10 blogs? I want to be able to check from one place which blog has a new post. Instead of manualy check them one be one. Operating System: Windows 7
stacker
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Some ways to write blog entry with screenshots in Mac OS X?

I would like to ask you some efficient ways to write blog post with the screen shots from a Mac laptop. In Windows, I would do something like: create a new page in OneNote, start to write the entry, use the clip function to take screenshot every…
Hoang Pham
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