Stealing Content From Flock

I am testing out Flock, a new open-source toolbar that is supposed to make it easy to grab web content and blog it easily.

Grabbing content to use later

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Introducing the Shelf

The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later. You may find that dragging text, links, and pictures on and off the Shelf is faster and more convenient than traditional cut and paste.

The Shelf is especially handy for re-blogging bits of text from web pages. When you drag a text snippet from the Shelf into a blog post, it is automatically formatted as a blockquote with proper citation.

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Using the Shelf

1. Open the Topbar menu and choose Shelf.
2. Highlight and drag interesting URLs, pictures or text snippets from any web page onto the Shelf. You can also click Add Note and type your thoughts, observations, and wild ravings to add to the Shelf.
3. To move highlighted text to the Shelf when the Shelf topbar is not open, right click on the highlighted item (click and hold for Mac users) and choose Send to Shelf from the context menu.
4. Click the Blog Editor icon (which looks like a feather pen).
5. Drag items from the Shelf into your blog post.

When you're done, you can make your favorites re-appear in the topbar by clicking the tiny arrow icon on the right end of the topbar.

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