Amy Gahran at Poynter has a list of online tools she recommends for media pros,
- Furl: Create your own private, full-text, tagged, searchable, shareable, Web-based archive of anything interesting, relevant, or useful you find online. (10 cool things to do with Furl, About Furl, file sharing, and copyright)
- Del.icio.us: Bill already knew about del.icio.us, but he didn't know you could use it to automatically create a daily digest posting of link items to a Typepad or Movable Type weblog -- which I do for one of my weblogs, The Right Conversation. And here's why I think Furl and Del.icio.us are almost perfect together.
- Audio/video search: Play with Podzinger and Blinkx, and make sure all your multimedia content gets fed to those services. Endless hours of serendipitous fun.
- Tracking online conversations: I'm using Co.mments right now, but once they debug their Firefox extension I expect I'll be back using CoComment.
- Writely: Okay, I don't use this much, but it's a pretty cool collaborative tool -- a web-based word processor. Worth playing around with. I also use Seedwiki to create password-protected wikis for team use on projects I'm involved with.
If you're a blogger I'd also add Statcounter, Technorati and Sphere. Not an online tool, but a tool that helps make getting your words online quickly and efficiently is Ecto. Highly recommended, especially if you run more than one blog.
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