On 1 Apr 2007 00:14:54 GMT Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:40:07 +0200, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
