Today I’m trying out Red Sweater Software’s MarsEdit. Feels a little clunkier than ecto, to me. I can’t put my finger on it. I’m not even really testing out these blogging programs for myself; I’m trying to find a good one for my Mac-using bosses at a real estate company that find working with computers to be a daily, if not hourly, challenge.

The nice thing about MarsEdit is the ability to drag and drop a photo from anywhere and upload it; the easier the better. But it leaves a lot of code lying around (great for me, terrible for them… I’ve noticed that to the unsuspecting, raw HTML code looks like typographic vomit, and elicits a response similar to seeing the real thing).

So I grabbed this neat photo from flickr and [amidst a yearning for a decent camera in which to take awesome arty photographs of my own collection of odd little wooden men] I threw it online using this program. Not bad. But the winner still of the three programs I’ve tried so far, is Windows Live Writer. Yeah. I know: BlaSpHemeR! But it’s actually pretty great. And lookee all those cute drop shadows!

Seems like my life these days is spent less on learning how to do great new things with technology and more on spending lots of time finding the easiest ways to allow people that have seen other people do great new things with technology do OK new things with technology.