Blogging Roller

Howard Kistler, you rock! Howard shares his toys and this toy is the coolest of all. This Ekit editor applet is a dramatic improvement over the previous Roller editor which was just <input type="text" ... > . This is my first post using Ekit.

The Ekit WYSIWYG HTML editor applet is coming soon in Roller 0.9.6. Thanks Howard and thanks hexicode codex!

Ok, so I just discovered that there are some problems with images. I think we are going to need some sort of macros or hotwords for including images in post. Anyhow, now that I've switched back to the plain old text editor, I can show you a screenshot:

<img alt="Ekit applet screenshot" src="/resources/roller/ekitthumbnail.jpg">

Weblogger.com/Erin Clerico has officially recinded the threat of lawsuit, apologized on Sam Ruby's site, apologized on Erin Clerico's site, and I have added a disclaimer to the main Roller Weblogger page. Thanks to the good and courageous people who came to my defence, even through some may have gone a little overboard with the language ;-)

I can understand the outrage involved when lawsuits are threatened and I felt this outrage myself, but try to understand that there are two sides to every issue. Both sides are human. I truly hope this is my last post on this topic.

I do not need a registered trademark to sue you. Ask your attorney. I take it by your attitude here you are ready for a fight. You will hear from my attorney next. -Erin

That is the latest. What a sweet guy. As I said before, I welcome any advice, assistance or pointers to sites/organizations that might help me research my case.

Below is the email that Weblogger.COM sent to me.  As far as I can tell, these guys do not own the word 'weblogger' and therefore do not have a case, but I am still researching this and looking into free legal resources.

Hello, my name is Erin Clerico and I own Weblogger:
http://www.weblogger.com

You have selected a name for your product, 'RollerWeblogger', which is too close to our Copyrighted name: 'Weblogger.' Since your product closely resembles our service offerings I must ask you to stop using this name immediately.

We have used this name to market our services for years, I would be more than happy to have our attorney contact you if you have any questions about our rights to this name in this market space.

I look forward to your prompt reply on this matter.

Respectfully yours

Erin Clerico