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April 13, 2003
Software Fetish - NetNewsWire
In addition to a new CMS, I'm also trying out a new RSS viewer and weblog editor from Ranchero Software called NetNewsWire.
RSS is an interesting newish standard for news sites and weblogs. RSS allows a website to publish a text summary of its content in a format that is machine readable. An RSS reader can get the latest updates from a bunch of web sites and show you the headlines and summaries. Lots of sites, from the BBC to small hobby sites, use RSS.
The NetNewsWire software goes one step further and allows you to edit your own website using a normal application, instead of going through the weblog's backend web form.
So far I've been pleased, although I'll probably continue to do most of my editing in BBEdit. If I have one complaint, it is that the software makes it really easy to accidentally stomp over an existing post. I don't think anyone would make the mistake twice, but I lost some time this morning re-creating the 'LinkBoy' post.