Out of Cheese

I’ve finally figured out how to get NetNewsWire Pro pointed to my weblog — it was guessing the wrong URL for Movable Type’s XML-RPC script — so I’m now trying to use it to post things.

Even if this works, I’m not sure I’ll stick with it. To me, reading RSS feeds and posting to my weblog are two separate things, and I’m not sure I see the benefit of trying to shoehorn both of them into a single application. I can see how it’d work well for someone like Dave Winer, who posts very little that isn’t a reference to someone else’s weblog, but I’m far more likely to link to newspaper stories or random web pages than something I saw in an RSS feed.

In any case, it’s software from Brent Simmons, so I’m sure it’ll be good when it’s done. It’s clearly an early beta now, though, and that shows. But I’m happy to play with it and do my small part to help him make it better.