Highlight is all new firefox extension that works with NowPublic social bookmarking service. If you don’t know Nowpublic is a Drupal powered citizen journalism site that is a combination of Slashdot, Digg and Flickr.
NowPublic makes routine online news-gathering and blog posting exceptionally easy.
Whenever you see something interesting online, just click the higlighter button in the firefox toolbar. A bottom bar similar to performancing blog editor will open.
The extension automatically fetches the title and tags from the page. You just have to select appropriate category and add some description. The desciption field features a full fledged WYSIWYG editor which you can use to add formatting, pictures, html to the story description.
Then you just have to click the Publish button and the news will be instantly submitted to the NowPublic website.
The now public highlighter extension has inbuilt blog publishing functionality that let you submit the news to your own blog at the same time.
[Download Highlighter Extension | Register at Nowpublic]
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