We're On a Roll

I'm happy to report that we already have a new update available for the Zoundry Blog Writer. You can download it here. This is part of our new plan to offer incremental updates more often. The Check for Updates sidebar (go to Tools>Show Sidebar) will tell you if you have the most recent version. If your Blog Writer doesn't have a sidebar, then you should just go ahead and download this new version to update your older one. Don't worry, you'll keep all your current settings.

The cool new feature in Build 61 is the improved Blog Entries Sidebar. In one view you can now see all of the previous posts in each blog in each of your blog accounts. This is really helpful if you have published the same post to multiple blogs - for example, a product review that's in both your public blog and your private blog for friends and family.

This is another example of an advantage you can get in a client application versus a web-based editor at the blogging services. In your browser, you have to page from blog to blog to list all your posts. Our Blog Writer conveniently shows all your posts in one place. Our app also allows offline editing, drag & drop images and links, our patent-pending engine to search and place affiliate links automatically, and more.

It doesn't mean you have to use one or the other. I use the analogy of email clients like Outlook versus web mail to illustrate the differences between our blog editor and a web-based blog editor. Outlook gives you a lot of rich features and offline reading and composing, but you can only use it on your PC. Web mail allows you to access your mail from anywhere but you have to be online. You also sacrifice some functionality due to limitations of the browser. Most people use a combination of both, and we see the same thing happening in blogging.