Posting through Google Docs

I’ve been using Google Docs to create these blog posts for the past couple of days. The interface is nice and a copy of the content is stored elsewhere than on the blog. It’s very easy to publish a document to your blog. You go to the publish tab and once you’ve set up the XML endpoint you just hit “Post to blog” and then it appears. I can embed HTML in the posts (see previous posts with YouTube videos) and I have fine-grained control over the presentation. I wouldn’t have thought a few years ago that an online word processor would function but this one is definitely stable, at least from my usage.

My life is definitely pretty tightly integrated with Google. From Gmail to Calendar to Reader to Analytics to Docs to (now) Feedburner and YouTube a lot of my day is spent using Google services. So far I have no problems with this as I’m very comfortable using these services. I think this will be an evolving question to answer for a lot of people over the next few years as Google’s dominance of the Internet continues.

Update: I completely forgot about the other services I use: News, Finance, Maps, Talk. Man am I ever a Google junkie.

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