Update: This is not the article you're looking for. While my points were valid when I originally wrote the article, today, Zemanta provides a great service, which works well and continues to expand. If you want my opinion, I'd say use it!

You might have noticed recently, that I’ve been giving Zemanta a try. It’s a pretty interesting service, and when it works, it’s great! Unfortunately, at least for me it doesn’t tend to work.

That last article I posted here, about the DRM in Spore? The add-on for Live Writer gave me no applicable pictures, links, or articles. However, when I went to edit it on the site (as Live Writer tends to replace plain characters with HTML escaped fancy ones, screwing up the Pathauto module for Drupal) there were decent selections for each.

Here’s where more problems come in, though. The JavaScript pulled in by the Zemanta module for Drupal seems to break Drupal’s own, such as for section folding in the editor, as well as breaking itself. I would select certain links to add, but only two actually were added. Selecting related articles just didn’t work at all. I could see the suggestions, but clicking on them did nothing. In fact, the mouse cursor didn’t even change to the finger.

I like Zemanta, as it seems to be a great way to tie my blog into the rest of the world, as well as provide me with more sources for posts that I write. But these guys really need to fix the various bugs in their service. And, make sure that when posts about their service are written, that the company logo appears in the image gallery!

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