Dave's work on his outliner tool

Starting work on a new tool, My Weblog Outliner. I just wrote up the design and am beginning work on the implementation. The goal is to offer a way for any blogger to edit posts in an outliner, even if they use another weblog tool, Blogger, Movable Type, Manila, etc; or post directly to weblogData.root, if it's a Radio weblog. This begins a new direction, providing tools that enhance the writing experience with Radio, even if you publish to a non-Radio weblog. As the market develops, people who are really interested, will use all the tools. This was what we saw in desktop publishing, people would use Pagemaker for some things, Quark for others, and add a bevy of compatible tools, like PhotoShop, Illustrator, scripting, databases, word processors, image managers, etc. That's going to happen with Web publishing too.  [scripting news]

Dave/John have done a good thing by partnering with SocialDynamx to create an integrated tool that will eventually not only write to Radio, but also to other blogging backends. I think you'd want to embed this outliner inside a client app that's branded for itself or for cobranded those other client apps. I think there's a lot of emotion and brand tied to MT. I don't think MT users will use a Radio webapp that writes to their webapp, when they think their webapp experience is already better and easier to use.

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