tools for blog

As I mentioned , it seems that a new blogging tool or service is being released every day to help bloggers add a new feature to their blog. It can become quite overwhelming to choose between them all.

As a result I thought it’d be worth having an open mike discussion on Blog Tools.

I’m not talking about blog platforms (we’ve covered that in this series but add ons that you might like to use on your blog.

What do you use?

Here are a few categories of addons with some of the things I use - but I’d love to see yours also. To contribute to the conversation either leave your list of blog tools in comments below or write a post on the topic on your own blog and leave a comment below with the link (or trackback this post).

Statistics

• Sitemeter
• Google Analytics
• My Blog Log

Blog Editors

• I use Ecto for Mac
• I know others who use Qumana, BlogJet and w.bloggar

Plugins

• my WP ones are listed here

News Aggregateor

• Bloglines

That’s all that is coming to mind at the moment but I’m sure I’ll add more later as I think of it. What blog tools (not platforms) do you use? Feel free to give your reasons and links to them.