Blog stuff
1. Congratulations to Evan Williams on sale of Blogger to Google. Blogger, while maddening, is the magical application that got me into this weblog mess in the first place, and for that I will be eternally grateful. Can’t wait to see how things shake out with this.
2. I have similar respect for Ben and Mena Trott and Movable Type. MT is flexible and great for multiple-author, multiple-weblog setups. But now that I’ve been spending some real time with the application (I’m building a site for a friend), I find the interface to be almost perversely complex at times.
An example: to add an author to a weblog, you have to exit out of editing that specific weblog, go to “Add/Edit Blog Authors,” choose the existing author from a dropdown, submit, scroll down to the bottom of the page, select the weblog from a dropdown, and submit.
Ben and Mena: How about just having a list of authors and an author dropdown on the main weblog editing page? Just a thought.
I think it’s because some people (me, for example) have more than one blog with different authors having different privileges on each, so it’s better to put that section at the top level.
MT’s interface is a little frustrating. Mostly I hate having to rebuild all the time. A “preview” button would rule. Otherwise, I’m enjoying it.
But hey, they now have a fax machine