Blogging with Google Docs

Blog posting from Google Docs is very simple to setup, simply click the publish button in Google Docs and follow the instructions.

I just learned that Google Docs supports the MetaWebLog API for publishing docs to a blog. Sitefinity supports the MetaWebLog API for blog post publishing. I had a brief hope that I could replace Windows Live Writer (not cloud based) with Google Docs (cloud based).

Alas this experiment was short lived though. For now, there is not an easy way to handle code samples (syntax highlighting) in Google Docs. Secondly, Google insists on hosting the files (images) included in the document, instead of uploading these images to the blog. And third, Google Docs does strange stuff with the HTML. Most notably, it wraps paragraphs with a <div> instead of a <p>.