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April 22, 2003

Awhile back I bitched about the state of client-side blog editors… Well, things are improving steadily…

w.bloggar 3.01 - Marcelo Cabral has released a new version of w.bloggar—I’ve installed it (and am using it to post this), but haven’t yet had a chance to play with all of the new features, but it looks like some nice ones.  Highlights include support of a Windows Media Player blogging plug-in, extended text support in MovableType (still no excerpt, apparently), and official support for PostNuke (which had previously been via a bit of a hack that one had to track down in the usual PostNuke locations). 

I’m especially looking forward to testing the latter, as there were a few PostNuke issues that I ended up hacking my large handful of PostNuke sites to get around.  More as I learn more.

Zempt - Zempt is a new multi-platform poster for Movable Type that looks really promising.  It’s in every early stages at the moment, and I’m anxious to try it, unfortunately the current version doesn’t seem to work on my server environment, despite some fairly valiant attempts at debugging it by the design team (thanks guys!).  So I’m waiting for the next release, which apparently will give us a little more indication of what’s failing.

Ironically enough, some of the changes the Zempt folk suggested fixed the problem I’d mentioned earlier with Kung-Log on OS X (I’m a multi-platform kinda guy :-).  I’ve played with Kung-Log a little now, but so far I still can’t seem to get into it—my attempts at using it to edit a few existing posts (I wanted to add Excerpts) seemed to result in broken hyperlinks.  There’s a new release that I’ll have to try as soon as I get a chance.

All in all, a lot of progress over a short space of time—I continue to be amazed at how fast things are moving in the various blog-related technologies (blogs themselves, RSS, OPML, etc…) Somebody’s been feeding crank to Moore’s Law again…



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