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A couple of months ago I asked readers to share which blogging tools they use
the most in some of the following areas. The suggestions were a nice start but
I’d like to see the list expand as I’m certain there are more blog tools and
services out there.

Please note that I’ve decided not to add ‘hosting packages’ to this list and
am attempting to keep it to products that directly help bloggers blogs improve
rather than more general organizational/business products. Lastly I’m not
including actual blogging platforms - if you’re interested in these and how to
choose between them you might like my

Choosing a Blog Platform post.

Here’s the list of suggestions so far - what would you add to it?

Statistics Packages

• Sitemeter

• Google Analytics

• My Blog Log

• WebAnalyse

• Performancing Metrics

• AWStats

• Mint

• Extreme

• Webalizer

• Stat Counter

• Measure Map

• Slim Stat

Blog Editors

• Ecto for Mac and Windows

• Qumana

• BlogJet

• Zoundry

• w.bloggar

• Blog Desk

• Post2Blog

• Performancing for Firefox

• Mars Edit

News Aggregators and News Sourcing Tools

• Bloglines

• FeedDemon

• Technorati

• Google Reader

• Website Watcher

• BlogPulse

• Blogarithm

• Topix

• Blog Bridge

• Grazr

• Rojo

• Memeorandum

•
NewsGator Online

• Net News Wire

Email Subscription and Newsletter Services

• FeedBlitz

• Zookoda

• Aweber

• Yutter

• RssFwd

•
Feedburner’s Email Subscription Service

Blog Poll Tools

• Blog Polls.com

• Vizu

• Free Blog Poll

• Blog Poll

• Blog Flux Polls

• WP Polls

Other Tools

• Pingoat – pinging service

• Pingomatic – another pinging service

• AudioBlogger – audio post to your blog
via phone

• BlogRolling – a service to manage
your blog roll

• Creative Commons – copyright
protections service

• Feedburner – RSS tool that adds a
variety of features to your blog’s RSS feed

• Picasa – find, edit and share all the
pictures on your PC

• Flickr – Store and share your images -
good way of hosting images if you don’t have a stand alone blog on your own
domain.

• Flock – A browser that enables sharing and
blogging from within it

• Copyscape – allows you to track down
other sites that are stealing your content

• TalkDigger – ‘find, follow and join
conversations evolving on the Internet.’

• Blog Flux – Stats, Pinging and
Directory

• Backpack It – A place to organise
your to do lists, notes, files, reminders and more - all online

• Basecamp – Like Backpack it (same
people behind it) but great for collaboration on projects.

• Ice Rocket – Blog Search

• coComment – Keep track of the comments
you leave on different blogs in a central place

• co.mments – Similar name to coComment but
not to be confused with it - a way of bookmarking and following comment threads
via RSS

• Gabbly – Add live chat to our blog posts
(like real time comments combined with IRC)

• Del.icio.us – Social Bookmarking site - good
for sourcing stories but also great if you get linked to on it to get traffic

• Digg – Another major Social Bookmarking site

• Only Wire – a bookmarklet that submits
posts to multiple social bookmarking sites at once

• Odeo – a tool for recording and sharing audio/podcasting

• TagCloud – produces Tag Clouds for your
blog from RSS feeds

• Indie Karma – a
micropayment system for bloggers

• Tiny URL – Turns long URLs into tiny
manageable ones

• Swicki – a new type of search
engine that harnesses the power of a web community - sort of like a search
engine and wiki combined

• Stock.xchng – Free Stock Photos

• Favicon Maker – allows you to
make a favicon from a photo

• YouTube – a tool for putting video on
your blog

• blip.tv – another video uploading tool

This post was written by: Franklin Manuel

Franklin Manuel is a professional blogger, web designer and front end web developer. Follow him on Twitter