I am testing the new web browser Flock.  It has a number of interesting features.  It allows you to post to your blog directly from Flock.  So I'm posting to the Otter Group blog from a specialized window inside the Flock browser that lets me do all the things I can do from my blog's back end and then some. 

 Flock has a shelf where I can drag and save things like images and text. I saved this image of the flock shelf from the documentation and then just dragged it into this window.  Very nice.

Then I dragged this text onto the shelf for saving.  

The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later. You may find that dragging text, links, and pictures on and off the Shelf is faster and more convenient than traditional cut and paste.

The Shelf is especially handy for re-blogging bits of text from web pages. When you drag a text snippet from the Shelf into a blog post, it is automatically formatted as a blockquote with proper citation.

Grabbing content to use later - Flock Community

Flock automatically formatted it and gave it a proper citation.  I really like that.

Flock is very nicely integrated with Flickr so that if I want to grab a photo out of Flickr and post it my blog, all I do is use a built-in photo browser which pulls in all of my latest photos from flickr so that I can just drag them into my window.

And Flock is integrated with delicious so that I can tag and post things to delicious directly from this window.   I am going to do a podcast on Flock for the Learning 2.0 series.  Stay tuned.

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