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I have been blogging for about three years. When I started I read several books on HTML coding and a lot of blog posts about how to create more interesting posts. Obviously I did not learn much but we will leave that for another post. This morning in my weekly blog search stats from Lijit I received a promotional offer to try Zemanta.
Zemanta gives you content recommendations while you write. Zemanta helps you enhance blog posts and emails with relevant images, videos, links or tags and it works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and other blogging platforms. Other articles on Zemanta are shown below.
I wrote this post using Zemanta. The only real problem I had was that the Zemanta generated image at the beginning of the post appears fixed in position. Despite five tries I could not move the picture to a better layout position. It would also have been nice if a Zemanta generated tag showed up as a key word in TypePad and if the related articles from Zemanta generated their own trackbacks. Hopefully these improvements will be in a future release.
If you have been afraid to blog because of layout and HTML questions, Zemanta eliminates a lot of those problems. For experienced bloggers I think it will improve productivity. Today it appears to only work with Firefox through a very nice add-on. Very cool demo is here. By 2010 I am sure it will write the whole post :)
Zemanta is obviously using a semantic search algorithm to generate all the suggested tags, links, and articles. What really interests me is what database they are using. Could it be the Lijit search database. Remember Lijit sent me the promo for Zemanta.
Let me know in the comments if you like the extra links and articles.
