Cool as, ahem, Flock

This morning I'm toying with Flock, a variant of the Firefox engine that integrates Flickr, del.icio.us, a feed reader, and more—like the blogging tool I'm using to post this update.

The Shelf

The Shelf is a scrapbook for interesting web content that you want to blog about later.

Example:

1. Open the Tools menu and choose Shelf.
2. Drag interesting URLs, pictures or text snippets from any web page onto the shelf.
3. Click the Blog Editor icon (that looks like a feather pen).
4. Drag items from the Shelf into your blog post.

Note:

• When you drag text snippets, Shelf items are automatically formatted as Blockquotes and citations are added.
• The Shelf is only for web content. You can't use it to upload items, or drop content from your computer onto it.

Flock

It's far from perfect, but with a little more UI polish it's going to be a neat package.