Four more Google Chrome extensions for bloggers

Last June, I posted a list of 5 social media extensions related to social media. This month, the topic is blogging. The extensions listed below are a blogger's dream - tools that make quoting, linking and productivity much easier.

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Amplify

Bloggers will love this extension. Amplify users can grab entire blog posts, images and quotes from any webpage and share that information to a long list of social networks including blogging platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and more.

To add someone's blog post to your blog, select the Amplify extension, select "clip this page" and select the portion of the post you would like to share. Amplify will then ask you to create an account using your Facebook or Twitter credentials. Finally, once you have created your account, you can create a post to share to the network of your choosing.

RescueTime

RescueTime measures your productive use of Google Chrome by monitoring what sites you visit and for how long. Sites like Twitter and Facebook are recognized as "very distracting time" - a minus two on the productivity scale while email services like Gmail are "neutral" - zero points on the productivity scale.

Now, say social media is part of your job. Users can tell RescueTime that visits to Twitter or Facebook should count as "productive" - one point - or "very productive" - two points.

Finally, the extension measures your productivity points and compares them to other Rescue Time users. Initially, users should expect their productivity to be very low, improving over time thus making RescueTime our favorite app to hate.

BlogThis

Blogs should always link to sources and articles of interest whenever possible. Chrome's BlogThis extension allows users to simply click a "BlogThis!" button whenever they want to add links to drafts on their Blogger account.

Unfortunately, the button only works with Blogger but Chrome offers a Posterous extension and several Wordpress extensions relating to comment moderation.

After the Deadline

This extension uses "artificial intelligence" to correct spelling, grammar and style while keeping an eye out for biased language, cliches, passive voice and redundant phrases.

The extension can copy edit everything from tweets to spreadsheets to blog posts. Perfect for the hurried blogger looking to post breaking news with minimum mistakes.

BONUS: Mini Google Maps

If you're consistently finding yourself hastily accessing Google Maps before you run out the door, then you know that every second counts. Chrome's Mini Google Maps extension saves time and patience in that the extension provides users with a one-click search bar above a mini-Google Map.

The extension even offers a "Get Directions" link which activates Google's location-a, location-b format again without asking users to load the Google Map's webpage.