Use an offline blogging tool (Blogging 201)
Today, I saw two of my good friends (Scott Leslie in Victoria and Cathy Browne in Vancouver) lose entire blog entries due to system and/or wireless malfunctions. There is almost nothing that irks me more than losing a really good blog entry because of technical difficulties. So, for the most part, what I do is I use offline blogging tools. I will confess that for all the writing I’ve done, and all the geeky tools I’ve explored, I mostly use BlogDesk for my offline blogging. It’s reliable and it can be hooked up directly to your WordPress.com and WordPress.org blogs.
So, my question to the blogging community out there – which other offline blogging tools can you recommend for my readers? I have only used BlogDesk, and I’m kind of afraid of using Windows LiveWriter. What else? Is there anything else you’d recommend?
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Since I mostly just write directly in html anyway, I use a plain text editor and then just paste the code in when I’m ready to post it.
Since html is so easy, I can’t justify the overhead of running yet another application on my poor old laptop.
Sometimes I use google docs, since they autosave and I almost never lose anything even if I lose the internet (at most a sentence or two).
I’ll be honest: I switched to just working online through wordpress a while ago because my blog client wasn’t really supported anymore (ecto). This said, about the only software I’m envious of on the windows platform (outside of games) is microsoft office 2007 and live writer. I loved using live writer, and given the more recent reviews of it, it sounds like it’s only improved!