The creator of blogging client Kung-Log has rewritten, updated, and renamed it, and has just relased the first public beta of ecto, which I’m playing with now. While I was never completely pulled in by Kung-Log, ecto so far seem to be fairly impressive. Quick response time, supports about everything I’d want it to (trackback pings, categories, file uploading, etc.), and has a decent number of useful extras (an option to prevent uploading posts that don’t have a category set or a summary written, and a live preview that can even tie into your site’s stylesheet so that it actually looks the way it should once posted), plus some “fun” goodies (like the ability to automatically insert what track iTunes is currently playing).
I’ve gotten so used to just using the web interface that I’m not entirely sure if I’ll be coaxed away from that or not, but I’m always willing to give one of these things a try. We’ll see how it goes.
(via Lane)
iTunes: “Difficult Listening Hour – 02v2” by DJ Wüdi from the album Difficult Listening Hour (2000, 1:04:41).