Re: Blog clients and the new Blogger Atom API
On 1 Apr 2007 00:14:54 GMT
Michael Perry <mperry@lnxpowered.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:40:07 +0200, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use various blog posting clients with a new Blogger blog.
> > I've tried BloGTK and Drivel, and they have ca't connect to Blogger. A
> > little (a lot) of Googling shows me that the new API has broken old
> > clients, but I'm unable to figure out if there's a workaround, or an
> > alternative solution. Is anyone using a linux client successfully with
> > the new Blogger? Is there another free blog hosting site you'd
> > recommend? (I may try Wordpress.com.)
> >
> > Celejar
> >
> >
> Hi-
>
> I've had my own wordpress.org blog until that system went south. Then I
> moved over to wordpress.com. I would strongly recommend wordpress.com
> for a few reasons. I had almost 2 years of blogposts and they placed
> them into my account cheerfully. I could not do it myself due to me
> only keeping mysql backups. But you asked about blog clients. I've
> tried a few:
>
> performancing - this is a firefox addon which works very nicely here
> with wordpress.com.
>
> drivel - drivel is nice but I cannot seem to make it post with more than
> one category selected.
>
> jblogeditor - you need java installed but it works very nicely on
> wordpress blogs
>
> bleezer - you need java for this one too; but I really like it a lot.
> Its being actively developed so you may find things which work and
> others which don't; but its a pretty nice blog client all in all.
>
> blogtk - this one seems frozen in time at the 1.1 release or so. I gave
> up on it after a year of no updates.
>
> You may find that performancing works with the new blogger. It gets
> updated quite often; but if I had my choices, I'd change over to
> wordpress.
>
> At a purely personal level, we need to have better offline blog clients
> that compare with some of the windows ones like blogjet or wbloggar or
> ecto.
Thanks, everyone, for your tips. I opened a free web hosting account
with Freehostia, downloaded wordpress, configured it and uploaded it to
my wordpress host. I now seem to have a working, if basic blog. I'm
going to play with it to see what I can do, using the wordpress
interface as well as blogtk and drivel. I would rather not use anything
Java based. Perhaps I'll look at performancing too, although I'd rather
a dedicated client that a browser addon. Thanks again, everyone.
Celejar
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