{"id":391,"date":"2011-05-09T22:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/JohnJohnston\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-05-09T22:07:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:07:57","slug":"blogsy-an-ipad-blogging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/JohnJohnston\/blogsy-an-ipad-blogging-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogsy an iPad blogging App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2292\/5704419255_ed14ef2536.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2292\/5704419255_ed14ef2536.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"301\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/\">Blogsy<\/a> is a new iPad blog editor that has a lot of useful features. It allow you to blog photos from Flickr and a couple of other photo sites, video from YouTube and also to load a webpage and drag images into the post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">You type in a code view:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2390\/5705012936_5e26f614e7.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"258\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">And then swipe to a <strong>preview<\/strong> combined with some text <em>formatting<\/em> and the drag and drop interface. You swipe again to go back to the code view. The text formatting works in both views.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">You can also use the built in browser to add links to as well as photos from other sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">A wee problem is that the app doesn&#8217;t upload photos to your blog but hotlinks the ones dragged in. This might give problems if the image is removed and also does not attribute the images in any way. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Blogsy works with wordpress.com, self hosted wordpress blogs and blogger ones. I could not get it to work with my pivot blog although pivot supports the MetaWeblogAPI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">I am going to try to post this to a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.wordpress.com\/#!\/cover\">wordpress<\/a> and blogger blogs using the settings (a couple of test blogs). I got an error trying to post to blogger. Since the HTML links to images and is nice &amp; clean I&#8217;ll post it to My <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/\">World Wide Wall Display blog<\/a> by copying the HTML and pasting into Safari. <a href=\"http:\/\/pivotx.net\/\">Pivot&#8217;s<\/a> mobile interface is nice<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Glow blogs get the metaweblogAPI sorted out this could be a useful app for class blogging in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p> pasting into the web interface works in a glow blog. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogsy is a new iPad blog editor that has a lot of useful features. It allow you to blog photos from Flickr and a couple of other photo sites, video from YouTube and also to load a webpage and drag images into the post. 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