Comments on: It’s not Flock vs. Performancing

By: Revving a classic cliché at FactoryCity

Revving a classic cliché at FactoryCity — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:20:44 +0000

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By: Manish

Manish — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:06:05 +0000

Performancing is a nice add-in, Flock’s pretty nice too. For a *much* more advanced blog editor, check out RocketPost:

http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost

(I designed it.)

It supports built-in photo editing, auto links to related posts, Technorati/Delicious tags, AutoCorrect, and lots more.

By: wolftrust.com » Blog Archive » Spin it like a journalist

wolftrust.com » Blog Archive » Spin it like a journalist — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:21:55 +0000

[...] Update: I hadn’t noticed the Flock bashing going around, and have no idea if I fueled it by including a link to Flock in my Performancing Screenshots post. I wonder if a person has that sort of influence from one little link? In any case, I wasn’t cited in columnist Matthew Ingram’s post indicating that Performancing’s success should not be anti-Flock. [...]

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:14:09 +0000

Why the Flock Bashing?

There seems to be a new round of Flock-bashing in the wake of the Performancing blog extension for Firefox. (Check out Mathew Ingram’s post for a good round-up on who likes the extension.) Michael Arrington comes to Flock’s defense, suggesting the fl…

By: Mathew

Mathew — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:20:09 +0000

Mark:

I know what you mean — I was disappointed too. But at the same time, I did like the Flickr integration and a couple of other things Flock had. Could those all be handled with extensions to Firefox? Sure — and that’s what the success of Performancing’s plug-in shows. But I think it’s a little early to say Flock is dead as an idea. As Chris says in his comment, I think we’re getting a little impatient.

Chris:

Thanks for stopping by. And I wasn’t trying to suggest that you got Mike to respond in your defence — I think he felt he had to because of some of the things that were being said, which is a shame. It’s one thing to say the Performancing extension is great, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should be giving Flock the last rites.