Zemanta, making blogging fun again.

Posted by Marco Kotrotsos
July 31, 2008
Betty Boop, from the opening title sequence of...Image via Wikipedia

Would it be great if somehow my attention profile would provide me with inspirational pieces or feedback?. Like it would know what I most likely would find interesting even before I would? That would now be totally possible.

I started using Zemanta and I can see the possibilities with this type of system.  A large part of writing blog posts is about collecting assets to go with it. Those assets in turn could provide inspiration as well.

Because I am working in a team that is researching semantic web consumer products I have found Zemanta to be quite interesting.  It does work as advertised  but still needs alot of information to ‘get going’ which is only to be expected…Look at the image on the right, Zemanta suggested this one. Zemanta also suggested Betty Boop…

But in all it’s a fantastic product that I will be using all the time from now on. And to get me to use something for over a week is actually doing something right.

For people that know me and read my personal blog- this might sound familiar.

Now, this is not a re-post or copy of the same article. I wanted to see if it would give me the same results. And it did. This is actually good and bad. For one it is proving to be a solid technology- it also means that well, i still get Betty Boop. I would love to know the reason as to this particular goof.

So, in a particularly small nutshell. Zemanta is a service that suggest content to you while you are -in this case blogging. So, while I am typing this I get suggestions in a sidebar automagically.

I get suggestions for pictures, articles, tags and links (that is where all the in-line links in this article come from). I can add either one of these by just clicking on it or by pressing ‘apply all’ for even more ease of use.

I am planning to use Zemanta for most of my writings here. But I wont be using it exclusivly though. Will be testing a couple of them.

For now, my list of Betty Boop entries keep growing,  but it just gives me an idea of a new article to post in the future. Isn’t that just a great side effect of a fantastic tool?

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