I've been so busy lately that I neglected to mention the release of MarsEdit 1.0 from Ranchero Software (aka Brent and Sheila).

MarsEdit is a desktop weblog editor. It's a bit like an email program, or an NNTP client, and it supports just about every weblog server platform out there. Let's you post to your weblog (on a server) without running a browser. It's certainly faster than most browser-based interfaces. (It only has to transmit and receive commands and weblog posting data, rather than all the extra stuff that's included with a web page.)

I have to apologize to Brent for not pointing this out sooner. He put in some work making sure that the UI (for posting to a Conversant "Weblog II" page) was nicely tweaked with some of our extra features. I really appreciate that. (Example user: Jim now posts to his weblog with MarsEdit.)

For some inexplicable reason, I'm still not using Conversant's newer weblog page here on my own site. That means I can't really take advantage of MarsEdit for [tw]. I'm so backwards! I started doing an upgrade a few months ago, but got distracted by actually working on the software instead of my site.