CityDesk, Joel Spolsky’s web content management program, is finally out. It’s basically Blogger on the desktop, keeping your content locally and then publishing it to the web via FTP. It’s not set up out of the box to be a weblog tool; it’s more focused on news or opinion sites with longer articles. But the scripting language appears to allow the regular weblog-style stuff to be accomplished. There will have to be some templates and scripts written for it geared toward weblogs before it becomes a good tool for most non-techie webloggers. In fact, I think Joel should think about adding those templates in a future release. Whatever the limitations of this first release, it’s an exciting step in the right direction for low-cost, easy-to-understand web site management. Bravo to Joel and his company, Fog Creek Software.
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I agree. I took a quick look at the freebie version, hoping for an easy blogging tool. What I saw was an excellent on-line/off-line newsletter tool that has some real possibilities (with additional work from the user, or from the publisher) for a blogging tool, with the plus (and minus, depending on your modality) of being a machine-bound offline-usable tool. Great for the blogger with a notebook.
I think if they make a decent, blog-friendly version in the cheap/free class, they’ll add more with advertising than they will lose otherwise.