I’m an awful blogger.
I mean, really bad.
I’ve totally failed this part of my quarterly goals. So it goes.
I really want to get into this. And I receive friendly pressure from friends and coworkers to write more. I don’t think they really want to read what I have to write. I think they just feel bad for me and my continually static dynamic content.
So I’m trying a little harder, as evidenced by my “flurry” of posts this morning. I’ve even got a few stewing in the hopper. I’m setting a personal goal of 5 posts per week, but don’t hold me to that. I also promise that if it doesn’t happen, I refuse to apologize for it.
A reason for my unprolificness is that I’m turned off by WordPress’s default editing environment. I’d like to find a decent editor that lets me work with WordPress drafts on the server. A preview feature would be nice but not necessary. Hell, I don’t even need an HTML toolbar. Is there a WordPress emacs mode out there? An eclipse plugin? For the 2 or 3 people actually reading this, what do you use to edit your blogs?
house of haug 
I write my (infrequent) blog posts within the blogging software, Pivot. It has two modes for its editor: an html mode and a WYSIWYG mode. I usually switch between the two as I’m formatting.
That probably doesn’t help you at all. Sorry.
BTW, I subscribed to your feed over the weekend. I guess I did it just in time to see a lot of Scooter-thoughts.
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au contraire, mon amis. i want to read your words. and see your purty images.
what is it about the wordpress editor that bothers you?
it works fine for me. it’s a little clunky looking in firefox, and the quicktags toolbar doesn’t show up in safari (not that i need it). but as long as the editor saves my drafts and allows me to edit them anywhere, i’m ok.
i’ve tried a few clients for the mac (ecto, marsedit) and i’m not giddy about them yet. marsedit has nice integration with netnewswire, but it doesn’t work with drafts the way i want it to. ecto seems to handle drafts better, but is has annoying issues with br and p tags.
not that any of this is helpful to you, since you’re not using a mac.
Ecto is available for windows (I had to download .NET and reboot—ugh!), but I haven’t played with it much. I was turned off by the fact that it listed my drafts as “published.” If Ecto saves its drafts locally rather than as drafts on the server, it really doesn’t do me much good, since I want to work on my posts from multiple computers.
The WordPress editor is serviceable, but it’s essentially just a textview with a toolbar. I spend the majority of my day in Emacs and Java IDEs, so I become used to the power that a decent text editor can provide. Thus, an Emacs mode would be ideal. But I’m no elisp hacker, so I’m at the whim of other geeks with the same hangups but more fu.
5 posts a week sounds rather excessive to me. I could never motivate myself to write that much. It’d probably distract me from getting “real work” done, too. I guess if I had a kid I’d write about him/her a bunch, like you do 🙂
Ani’s really cute, by the way.
Shoot for the stars, my grandpa used to say. You just might clear the trees.
Maybe I’ll count comments in my own blogs as posts…
One thing you may want to look at is the Mozex plugin for Firefox. Among
other things, it lets you specify an editor to use for text boxes. Right
now, I’m using Emacs to type this reply. It’s not perfect, and it does
mean yet another instance of Emacs, but it is a darn good start.
I’m with you, though…I want to type M-x post-to-wordpress and be
done with it.
You can use emacsclient with mozex, and save yourself the extra Emacs instance.