Blogo is new blogging software for Mac OS X. I used it for a few minutes and I give it the thumbs down. I didn’t like it for the following reasons:

1. Blogo didn’t download my category list and give me a way that I could see to choose a category for my post. This by itself is an instant deal buster. I’m already out. Done. Kaput. And I’m a bit shocked this is missing, frankly.

2. Blogo is not WYSIWYG. It sort of is, but if you’re dealing with a photo, then it inserts a little icon that represents the photo. This is frankly lame. I don’t want a “Preview.” I want to edit the actual post. I understand this is a hard problem to solve. But other people have solved it. If you want to be a player in this space, solve it, and solve it well. Get rid of the edit and preview metaphor. It sucks. It sucks big time.

3. Blogo posted a temporary post to my blog to get the styles of my blog to render an accurate preview. It then failed to delete the post. I had to log into my website and delete it manually. The problem with this is it will immediately get sucked up by feedburner and show up in people aggragators. This is really really lame. And it didn’t tell me it was going to do this. If it did, I would have said, no fricking way you piece of poop. You lame piece of poop.

4. Editing in Blogo is freaking weird (and missing features like numbered lists). I had a picture in my post. I deleted the picture like fifty times just trying to delete a blank line above the picture in my post. Then I realized I had to drag down to the bottom of the post. WTHIAHB!? (What the hell in a hand basket?) Also really, really, REALLY lame. And frustrating. And just, well, silly. Why reinvent the wheel here? Try working like every other application on the planet, then we’ll talk.