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Next generation of blog tools

March 1 2006
by Rachel
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Logahead – a new blogging tool by a 17 year old – has created quite a buzz and rightly so. Let me try and avoid using buzzwords in this post and say what it does well:

  • Easy to add and edit everything inline, rather than going into an admin area.
  • Simple to organise the sidebar content. Reminds me of how Typepad made it simpler than MovableType to organise the sidebar by moving sections up and down but this makes it far simpler again by allowing you to drag and drop sidebar content. No coding involved.
  • Built in tagging and tag clouds. No plugins necessary.

As far as I can see, it’s not possible to edit templates online at all – which is rather frustrating. I’m sure Logahead has given the WordPress and MovableType crowds a bit of a jolt and reminder that blogging tools still have a lot of room for core usability improvement and not everything is about fancy plugins.

your thoughts

  • http://www.100yen.co.uk/ Jonic

    I think the fact that third party developers have to create plugins for wordpress to get it to work how they would like speaks volumes about how good a platform wordpress really is (out of the box)… I know that it’s only possible due to the WP API and the fact that it is an easy platform upon which to develop, but we shouldn’t have to… Then again the same could be said about Firefox and its extensions capabilities…

    I’m very excited about Logahead… I think that this is exactly what wordpress, six apart et al need… A kick up the ass to demonstrate that a blogging system can be functional… It isn’t entirely about ubiquity…

    I’m looking forward to seeing how logahead develops… Now if only permalinks took the form of human friendly URLs with a little mod_rewrite magic…

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  • http://red-star.nl/weblog redstar

    I’ve been reading about logahead last sunday.Its a verry nice job that,that 17 year old boy made here. WP is a good platform to do a lot of things. Ive made a search engine for my WP blog with scriptaculous and does things are just great.Its not a Live search box you see more and more these days, but its a fine tool.

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  • http://finwinwin.blogspot.com Bizmonk MJ

    Hi there,
    Thanks for putting logahead to my radar.I got a question about Logahead. I am asking you because I can’t find the answer at that website.

    Can you tell me, how can I use Logahead. I am using Blogger.com right now. It seems I might need to open a WP account to use it.

    Can you give me a step by step answer to use it?

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