Blogging Blues

Friday, October 10, 2003

I've been looking for a good rich client to post to my blog with (I just don't like editing in a web page). Unfortunately I can't seem to find a workable client out there.

NewsGator works, but only occasionally. For example, this post was first attempted from NewsGator but it never got here. This happens a good 9 out of 10 times. It is one heck of a reader, but the posting has a way to go.

w.Bloggar looks promising. But I just cannot get it to work. When I point it at weblogs.asp.net/mlafleur/services/metablogapi.aspx it just returns an XML parsing error. I know other have made it work before, but it sure seems broken now.

Any ideas out there?

UPDATE: It seems my issues are related to a bug in .Text rather than the client software.

5 Comments

Something is up with the external posting services. Hopefully I can get it cleaned up shortly.

Sorry for the problems.

-Scott

Scott Watermasysk - Thursday, October 9, 2003 11:37:00 PM

I have to agree, it /must/ have spell checking.

Really, NewsGator isn't so bad but when I cannot trust that the post will actually post...

Marc LaFleur - Friday, October 10, 2003 12:19:00 AM

Wait for Scott to get the problems worked out and try w.Bloggar again. It's a very nice GUI for posting. I really miss it now... :(

Patrick Steele - Friday, October 10, 2003 9:43:00 AM

Marc, I'm almost positive the problems are with the server API...give Scott a chance to fix them, and NewsGator should be fine. There are a lot of folks here using it for posting, and there have been very few problems in general.

Greg Reinacker - Friday, October 10, 2003 9:58:00 AM

I have had no problems posting with Newsgator until this week. I understand there are some problems on the blog host end, not with Newsgator.

Greg Robinson - Friday, October 10, 2003 1:13:00 PM

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