Blogging Roller

Both Niall Kennedy and Joel Spolsky have written interesting posts on the Google spam-blog connection today. I really don't understand why Google hasn't done more to shut down the spammers down. They're gaming Google's system and Google's passing the cost to the advertisers. On second thought, maybe they're taking it out of my AdSense check and maybe it's time to try something else. Eventually, advertisers will catch on. As Spolsky says: "AdSense will ruin Google's reputation among advertisers, something which could be deadly."

I haven't tried the Ecto blog client in quite a while and I've gotta say, it looks really nice. It's got a WYSIWYG rich-text editor, spell checking and automatic image upload, which makes things easy, but it also has a bunch of advanced features like iPhoto, iTunes, del.icio.us and Flickr integration. It's going to take a while to explore all of the features because it really tries to do a lot.

I've tested Ecto before with Roller 1.x and it worked fine. It also works with Roller 2.0 and recognizes multiple blogs if you have them. The only problem with Ecto? It only runs on Windows and Mac OS.

Here's a good summary of the Ecto feature set: ecto and MarsEdit

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Now that I've got StarOffce 8, I need to get my hands on the StarOffice blogger addon and give that a spin.