{"id":11241,"date":"2006-10-20T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/contribute-rocks-for-blogging.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T18:13:44","slug":"contribute_rocks_for_blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/contribute_rocks_for_blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Contribute rocks for blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m not an unbiased source, given that I work for Adobe, but I have to take a second to plug the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/contribute\/\">Contribute 4<\/a>, released earlier this month.&#160; Until now I&#8217;d never used any flavor of Contribute, though having been a Web designer I&#8217;ve always liked the idea of a tool that let clients do their own updates\/grunt work.&#160; I grabbed the release build of v4.0 (&quot;C4&quot;? Hmm&#8211;too explosive) on the weekend and, after taking a couple of days to switch gears, have been on a tear with it ever since.&#160; Being able to compose blog entries offline in a WYSIWYG editor, then publish them in one click, just crushes my previous approach (typing raw text in a Movable Type interface). <\/p>\n<p>By the way, on a blogging-related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Adobe+picks+up+video+software+maker\/2100-1014_3-6127754.html?tag=st_lh\">Adobe&#8217;s acquisition of Serious Magic<\/a> brings with it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriousmagic.com\/products\/vlogit\/index.cfm\">Vlog It!<\/a>, an app designed to make video blogging similarly easy.&#160; The built-in Teleprompter &amp; green-screen capabilities sound particularly sweet.  I don&#8217;t have any inside info on Adobe&#8217;s plans here, but a combo of MacBook Pro + built-in iSight cam + some green construction paper mean you may be seeing more of me here soon.&#160; (Wait, don&#8217;t unsubscribe that feed already&#8230;!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;m not an unbiased source, given that I work for Adobe, but I have to take a second to plug the new Contribute 4, released earlier this month.&#160; Until now I&#8217;d never used any flavor of Contribute, though having been a Web designer I&#8217;ve always liked the idea of a tool that let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}