Looks like bloggers will have even more choices of what tools they use to maintain their weblogs soon. In addition to Big Blog Tool, which I’ve promoted before, I just heard about CityDesk, by programming whiz Joel Spolsky. Sounds sort of like Blogger on the desktop – a Windows program that maintains a database of your blog entries, then FTPs changes to your web space. If this is a decent program, it could be the best of both worlds – an easy-to-install system that doesn’t depend on someone else’s crowded server. And as commercial software, the makers will have a financial stake in making improvements and giving tech support. Cool.
(BTW, why not stop by Heather’s new weblog. Always nice to see interesting people starting up weblogs.)
Now this sounds cool. The other advantage is that it would keep a site outage (your own or a database owner like Blogger) from keeping you away from writing.
(Granted, you could just do the same thing from an HTML editor, but that wouldn’t be as cool.)
Hmmmm. Very cool.
I am a prophet! I’ve often said that someone should write a Blogger-style program that runs on the user’s machine. If only I had the skills needed. Glad to see someone has done it, regardless, and I may just use it.
All sounds very cool. BTW, Adam, thanks for linking to me, I appreciate it. 😀
Oh, and the comments on my site are fixed now, so go post a comment! ;D