Stephen Caver

With starting this blog it has become abundantly clear that regulating my writing to Movable Type's own management system is an unideal way of working. Not to the detriment of Six Apart's work on MT, but it still runs slow as the dickens (something that seems to be common among Six Apart ventures—Vox as well crawls with snail like speed). Perhaps the failing is with me and my set-up, but for convience sake a smart weblog writer would do well with a desktop client to interface with his or her blog.

So far I've examined MarsEdit and Ecto, yet I am still wont for a feature that I have not found in desktop clients. I need custom fields. Neither MarsEdit nor Ecto allow you to use custom fields, and perhaps this is just too large a task for a desktop editor. But it sure would make updating the reading list a whole lot easier.

That being said, it seems to me that MarsEdit is the clear winner between these two heavyweight blogging clients. The interface is much cleaner, and so far as I can tell, adequate for simple blogging actions. I'm still putting it through the motions, but so far, the winner seems to be MarsEdit.