TypePad is a hosted web application. You write and work in your web browser. That has certain advantages – like being available to you wherever you can reach the internet, home, work, the Sony Store at the Metreon.
It also has disadvantages if you’re not used to it. Both Radio Userland and City Desk are local applications – you write and store information on your computer and it is uploaded (streamed in Radio’s case and ftp’d in City Desk’s case) to your website. If something “goes wrong” you re-open the application and pick up where you left off – try again. Earlier today I was working in TypePad while going back and forth between other websites in what I thought was another browser window. At some point I did something wrong – because I lost the browser window with the post I was working on. Couldn’t find it. It wasn’t a particularly prize-winning post – but losing it was frustrating.
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