Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:50:58 -0400 > Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Celejar 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 >>> >> Blogger Beta, or Blogger 2, or whatever it is called now, drastically >> changed the API. They moved from static to database-driven posting, >> changed the template system, etc. The change even broke Google's own >> Picasa's "Post Photos to Blog" functionality. If there is a debian >> packaged-client for Blogger, it sure won't be in stable. > > Thanks; I basically gathered as much, but you've confirmed it. I saw > the Picasa fumble on one of Google's Blogger blogs. I'm using unstale, > but I believe the upstream hasn't updates the clients yet (BloGTK > specifically mentions the issue in its FAQ). >> But then, Blogger isn't OSS anyway. Wordpress is. I recommend it >> completely over anything else out there. You can use wordpress.com, or >> get a free web host and do it yourself (recommended). Installation is >> almost 100% automatic from the wordpress-version#.tar.gz file. And >> actually, it should be able to import your blogger posts, or typepad, >> or whatever you may have used before. >> >> I like WP. I feel compelled to share my WP Love banner: >> http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com/WPdedication.gif > > I was quite interested in WP, partly due to its open-sourceness; I'm > not completely sure why I started with Blogger. I'll definitely take > another look at it. Thanks also to the pointer to free web hosting. I > see you use Freehostia. Are you happy with it? I see it has quite good > reviews [0]. Do you or anyone else have anything to say on the pros and > cons of Freehostia or any other free web hosting service? Any > recommendations / warnings? > > Thanks again, > Celejar > > [0] http://www.free-webhosts.com/reviews/FreeHostia.php >
Yes, I am using FreeHostia. What can I say? It's free. I've yet to notice a downtime in the past two/three months. Control Panel works. They run LAMP (Debian, I think...). For free, you get (trying to remember) a gig of space, 1 MySQL database, PHP/CGI useage, access to whatever scripts they have on CP. FTP access, no SSH/SFTP. Free subdomain. No complaints here. For WP, it is OSS. Plus it's in [simple and organized] PHP, so if you do find a bug or something you do not like, you can fix it. There are many plugins around the 'net to choose from, as well as templates. -- Matthew K Poer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
