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Blogging is fun again with Zemanta and Apture!

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We’ve come a long way since the birth of the internet. Yesterday I posted about Apture, a wonderfully easy plugin that helps add rich and interactive content to your blog posts. I’ve had one comment to that post (that wasn’t spam) and it mentioned Zemanta. I am testing out Zemanta as I write this post. The concept is similar to Apture- as Zemanta enables writers to easily enrich their content- but it is much different because it automatically offers up various content in a slick little sidebar via a browser extension (I’m using it in Google Chrome…yep…Chrome has extension support now). At this point of the post I see a Media Gallery, Related Articles In-Text Links and Tags that I could easily insert into this post. I just added a photo from the Media Gallery by dragging it to the body of this post. In the Related Articles section I just clicked an article which was added to the end of this post. Both super easy to do, and automatically recommended to me. Between Apture and Zemanta I should never have a bland post again, no matter how bland the subject.

After my initial use of the two products I have to say Apture is easily my favorite, but Zemanta certainly has it’s place in this content niche and over time I’ll have a better comparison. One thing I do know is these two products have me wanting to post something everyday just so I can easily add awesome content. It’s been a while since blogging has been more fun and less like a task.

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