This 1.0b1 release of NetNewsWire pro includes a weblog editor, notepad, Find command, AppleScript support, and more. [Ranchero]

Mhh, nice new weblog editor function. I think Kung-Log still has the edge for the feature set and the flexibility (categories, allow comments option, custom HTML tags), but having a Weblog editor that’s aware of my RSS feeds is a nice concept, just like Radio does I think.
Now maybe a Applescript to call Kung-Log from NNW would do the job just as well. Most important though: it includes a Find feature.

There is also an outliner built-in there, the « notepad ». I think an outliner is some sort of an epiphany that software developpers get. Dave Winer was the first case I remember witnessing, with MORE and Frontier, the outliner that kept on giving. The Tidbits crew has been saying good things about outliners for a long time too. Now Brent Simmons is at it too.

I’m curious to see if I’ll use it. I’m a big user of Word’s outline view but I tried a couple stand alone outliners over the years and even though I’m always impressed by the software itself, I never really got hooked on using them for any length of time.

Oh, I wanted to post this with NNW, but I’m getting a /CFSStreamFault. I usually get this with Kung-Log when I try to download a list of posts, it is apparently caused by a bug in the XML parser of OS X with accented caracters, dixit K-Log author’s. Thanks anyways for the early present.