8. How has the set of blogging tools that you use changed in the past 5 years?

They change every week. I’m a purist when it comes to writing, so I’ve been using Notepad++ for as long as I can remember but everything else changes with the times. I used to have Digg and Reddit buttons, these days I have Twitter and Facebook ones. I used to use MyBlogLog, these days I use Twitter. It used to be hard to find a video and harder still to insert it into a post, these days I can hop over to Youtube and do it in seconds. Blogging tools have made it easier for people to focus on content production rather than the often tedious process of content formatting, if anything is responsible for the popularity of blogging the steady improvement of the tools over the years has to be it.