Looks like an ok setup, but note the details: this is a desktop app (no web-based post-and-publish), and to take advantage of the free download, a Mac has to be running OS 10.2, and the user has to have a .Mac account.

Me personally, I'll stick with Blogger!

Makes sense to me :)

If you want to get all geeky, it's possible to hook up blosxom with procmail so email with a preset subject line gets converted to blog entries. Blogger isn't bad, but I'm always afraid it's going to melt down one day and I'll lose everything.

People I know complain that sometimes Blogger's servers are offline. Then, of course, there's the recent hacking of Blogger.

Thus, seems like someone could design a desktop-based client, such as iBlog, so that when web servers or internet access are down, a user could still create posts on their local machine, just not publish them (which may beffectively be what blosxom does), but also include a javascript or php-based web-based program to run on a users personal website, allowing them an input form for blogging when on someone else's machine. Sort of the best of both worlds.

Maybe we could promote the use of .Net and then Microsoft would create such software for Windows users in exchange for selling their souls to the devil :)

just saw this on slashdot:

http://www.drijf.net/dototto/wwwmac.html



the example is with an openbsd box, but looking at what needs to be done, seems it would work with linux as well.

could work for using iBlog :)

Movable type is a good local client that gets good reviews. But who wants to set up a perl script...

well, it's not a local client, but PostNuke is a really easy to install app on any apache web server supporting php and mysql (lol)

Postnuke *is* pretty cool. Yet try as I might, I can't convince *anyone* of the silky smoothness of blogger contextual menus.

http://www.philringnalda.com/blogthis

Postnuke should URL-ize plaintext URLs.