How did I create this blog post?

This morning on Twitter, a group of us were talking about Microsoft’s just-announced plans for Windows Live.

During the course of that conversation, several of us who are in the business of blogging started an animated conversation about how we create and publish blog posts.

So my question to you is this: What tool (or tools) did I use to create this blog post? Can you tell from what you see on this page?

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15 Thoughts on “How did I create this blog post?”

  1. Carl on May 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm said:

    WLWManifest.xml is in the headers of the page, which is a Windows Live Writer file. Also, you talked about Windows Live Writer earlier on Twitter.

  2. Ray Ebersole on May 3, 2012 at 7:01 pm said:

    Well, knowing that you’ve talked about Windows Live Writer and how you’ve used it before, I would take that as a dead giveaway, but Carl beat me to looking at the source for the page.

  3. Ed Bott on May 3, 2012 at 7:08 pm said:

    You’re both wrong.

    Any other contestants?

  4. Dwight Silverman on May 3, 2012 at 7:39 pm said:

    Word. And that ain’t urban slang, son.

  5. Robert on May 3, 2012 at 7:40 pm said:

    I’ll take a stab in the dark.

    Office 2010 Word, Create New Blog Post.

  6. Woody Leonhard on May 3, 2012 at 8:13 pm said:

    You wrote it in Word, with a Heading 1 style for the header, then pasted it directly into WordPress.

    Since you used the H1 style, there’s no link for the header in the article.

    There are tags buried in the that I don’t understand, though. You may be using a more recent version of WordPress than I.

  7. Woody Leonhard on May 3, 2012 at 8:28 pm said:

    Sorry, that should’ve said “buried in the h1 tag”. I wrote it as (angle)h1(angle) and it got swallowed by the HTML monsters.

  8. Scott on May 4, 2012 at 7:02 am said:

    I bet you used a keyboard….

  9. Scott on May 4, 2012 at 7:05 am said:

    It smells like Facebook… But that’s a SWAG.

  10. Ed Bott on May 4, 2012 at 8:28 am said:

    Woody and Dwight were close, but Robert got the key detail.

  11. Woody Leonhard on May 4, 2012 at 9:10 am said:

    Ed – Do you save (“publish”) directly from Word?

  12. Bill on May 16, 2012 at 10:36 pm said:

    WordPress hosted at WordPress.com?

  13. Ewerton Emmanuel on May 29, 2012 at 9:58 am said:

    You just used a WordPress Facebook Open Graph protocol plugin (WPFBOGP v2.0.2).

  14. David Bridge on June 1, 2012 at 1:11 am said:

    Something that makes it difficult to update considering this post (the reason why I found you) is so out of date. Maybe some software you wrote yourself. Or perhaps notepad?

    http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2005/05/tip-of-the-day-use-task-manager-to-track-memory-usage/

    Dave ;-)

  15. Ed Bott on June 7, 2012 at 6:06 am said:

    David, the post you linked to there is dated 2005. I don’t typically go back and update old posts to cover new Windows releases.

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