BlogThing - 1.0.2

If you're new to the blogging world and would like to start your own blog, this is a good (and costs no money) application to use.

Simple to get started: just enter in your blog's RPC (that info should be easily found on your blog platform's website or a simple search).

Once started, it's very simple to blog away. You just type, add a title, and Post.


There are a few simple things to improve Blogthing. It automatically edits anything starting with www. or http:// to a hyperlinked URL). Although this is a convenience, there is no way to modify the url so it would display text instead of the actual url.
Another limitation is that you cannot save a draft of your writing before posting it public to your blog.

Inserting images into your post is done by dragging the image from Finder into your post in blogthing. There's no hints of how to do this until you check out the Help Viewer.
Also, the preferences offers just 2 options to resize the image.

As for documentation, it's sparse but does the job. The help viewer in Blogthing only consists of a guide to configure blogthing to your blog and a link to flash videos that explains how to upload photos and edit your text (as if it isn't easy enough already).

Being such a barebones application, it doesn't use many resources on the computer and would be especially good to use on older Mac's.

It just needs a bit more polish on the interface and documentation and a fix to the hyperlinks (I mentioned above).

Even without these improvements, I would recommend this to anyone [those not technically inclined] who wants a barebones, simple way to blog without using the platform's [LJ, wordpress, etc] interface.
(However, if you have the computer skills to track down this review online, you'll find Blogthing a bit sparse).