I’m still experimenting with blogging apps. This time posting with Ecto. It’s rather nice though a bit complicated possibly for the average user — especially since I had to troubleshoot it. I do like how much control you have over the image code, which makes using my wordpress lightbox plugin easy.
I tested MarsEdit too which is much cleaner, but really only good if you want to post text only as adding images takes waaaaay too many steps. MarsEdit’s live preview is great as long as you know your way around html/css to set it up (which is strangely complicated considering that the rest of the app seems set up for the average user). On the opposite end of the spectrum is Journler which seems just plan convoluted looking.
While Ecto is nice, personally, I think I’m still gonna recommend Flock just because of the easy Flickr interface. Ecto does have an app called 1001 which sounds great app but it was really really slow at loading anything. So Flock it is.
Actually, I’m also gonna start to use it at work as my blogging/social/lunch-break browser, and keep Firefox as my development/work only browser. I figure this will hopefully help me focus more on work and curb any procrastination.
p.s. that picture is one of my favs from Urban Golf.
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I’ll be curious to here more on your experiences. I’ve been a Radio Userland fan for a long while, and I like cheap hosting, but an itching to try some new tools.
Thanks for posting-
Radio Userland looks interesting, though I like more flexibility, which I why i just have a generic webhosting service with godaddy and use the free opensource Wordpress. I really have nothing but praise for Wordpress.
Actually, John, if your interested in playing around with wp, I have a testing blog setup that I can email you the login info for. You could also just signup for a wordpress.com site but then you’d couldn’t mess around with the css for the templates.
Radio is pretty cool. I like the way it runs a server on your local box to do its thing, and you keep the original material.
The biggest prob for me is re-doing a couple of years worth of posts, pix, and files, and other sites losing the deep links to my pages…currently going to the Userland server.
I got a bit on my plate, so it won’t be happening anytime soon. I’ve heard good stuff about Godaddy, I like Open Source software, and just need to bite the bullet. Thanks for the offer, ‘tho.
My brother is on Flickr and loves it. I want to make T-Shirts with his Flickr name on it, since he does a lot of shots in public.
Keeping the original material really it’s an issue with wordpress (or almost any other real blogging platform) since you can just make database backups.
In any case, the local box thing doesn’t work for me since I float between my work machine and my home machine. I need a fully online solution.
If you ever do think of switching, I found a how to switch from Radio Userland to Wordpress.
Much thanks for that link. I’ll give that a go when I move over… or I’ll just republish my old site in its current style and start fresh with Wordpress!
I would like the ability to remote publish too.
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