Christine Herron writes that Typepad Timeouts Are Ugly. Scenario: you’ve just finished writing an absolutely brilliant post, and the server connection to your online blogging tool goes down. You click save, and lose your work. It’s not just Typepad, it’s all online blogging tools — count my favorite, WordPress, amongst the guilty.
Fortunately, there is help on the horizon in the form of next generation offline blogging tools. I’ve used Qumana (available now) and also used the Publish to Blog feature in Word 2007 (available next year).  Both are promsing tools, and can really help you use offline time productively. There’s something to be said for being able to compose a post from the seat of an airplane, and then punch the publish button when you land.Â
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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This is why I use Performancing. It's built into my browser and doesn't time out.
I've used Ecto for a while now, which lets me keep my blog posts off line and saved me any hassle from TypePad's downtime yesterday.
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