Scott Watermasyk's Blogert
Scott Watermasyk blogged about his new Metablog API-supporting blog tool called Blogert. I fired off an email to Scott requesting a copy, and I received a response within a few minutes. What I like about it:
- It's community code. Blogert is an amalgam of free and .NET libraries/code. It's nice to see a tool that embraces this idea without reinventing the wheel only to implement an inferior library.
- It's closer to the philosophy of functional orthogonality that I very much appreciate with respect to tools. It's "lighter" than w.bloggar; interface is simple and clean, and I'm not inundated with options. I fired it up and within a few seconds I was able to post (save for the few hours I was at dinner with friends).
- It's written in .NET.
- It's written by Scott.
Perhaps not very compelling reasons for some, but it's everything I'd want in such a tool (mostly the ability to post to my blog without fearing the backspace).
Also, rather than creating a "Testing [insert name of blog tool here]" post that seem to be ubiquitous when a new blogging tool is released, I am posting my initial thoughts on Blogert from Blogert.