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Flock doesn't advertise b2evolution as one of the wiki(blogware) packages that it supports, but setting up my blog almost worked. Flock went into a loop at the end of setting up claiming that there was an error, and I needed to check my account settings, though it didn't give me an opportunity to do so. After, clicking on "OK" for or closing the error message, it just popped right back up. But when I went to Tools | Options > Blogging, there were all our blogs, properly identified.
So, will this work? Hitting "Publish" now...
Nope, it didn't work, so I'm publishing from my normal b2evolution interface. I got the error "Oops. There was a problem..."
I was wondering if the renderers would work through Flock. Renderers are plug-ins to b2evolution that allow us to take shortcuts when writing a blog, two examples are in this post. To get the wikipedia link above for blogware, I just typed the word "wiki" "(" "blogware" ")", and note the dots under "b2evo" - hover your mouse cursor over such a decorated word and get a tooltip definition.
Of course, b2evo has a toolbar plug-in that works well with Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, IE and allows me to blog about any web page I'm on, opening this interface, complete with URL to what I'm blogging about.
That's OK. I like this interface. The Flock editor isn't as complete, nor does it have the b2evo smiley toolbar. 
I'll keep playing with Flock and see what other features work, duplicate what I have in toolbars or folders (like a personal bookmark toolbar with syndicate and tagging folders), and what doesn't work.
Nice UI though. I really like the cool blues.
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I'm Joseph A. di Paolantonio and my web log provides ideas on the best of the best in news. technology, practices, services and people supporting and living the TeleInterActive Lifestyle, impacting buisnesses, people, communications, life and work styles, and pretty much anything else that seems appropriate. I'm an executive with over 25 years of commercial experience with a technical focus in developing advanced data analysis methods. I'm a part of InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.
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