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Here’s a rumor I read on some Russian blog:

Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) is a nice guy. But he’s not the real owner of Google. Google is the project of US National Security Agency, which conceal an Internet division of NSA called “Echelon”. “Public” Google as we know it takes only 1% of the whole capacity [so 99% are for military purposes].

Cool. Oh, now I think it’s Al Gore who invented Google as well.

P.S. Do you want a rumor about Microsoft and Bill Gates?

Blogger.com is implementing captcha to prevent creating splogs (spam weblogs). That means if you post to Blogger with BlogJet, you’ll have to logon to your Blogger web admin panel and type in some numbers from picture.

You will not be forced to enter these numbers every time you publish a post – AFAIK, only sometimes. However, there seems to be a bug that makes you pass through the validation process each time you post. Blogger developers know about this and will fix the bug soon.

Today’s the day of the first show here.

I like snow because it makes me sit at home and program BlogJet . There will be 4 months of this…

Flock is a social web browser. Among its features it has a blog client.

Before they had a downloadable version, I seriously considered the competition with Flock. Now that I downloaded this app, I’m not afraid anymore. It won’t replace BlogJet.

Remember Mozilla Suite? It has a browser, a mail client, an IRC client, a web page editor, etc. – all in one. A few people used it. When Mozilla Foundation separated web browser from mail client – Firefox and Thunderbird, the user-base began to grow.

I didn’t use Mozilla Suite. Then I began using Firefox. I liked it so much that I downloaded Thunderbird to try. And I liked it too, so now I use Firefox and Thunderbird.

And while integrating social bookmarks with browser seems obvious, I don’t  know what other tools are doing there. Fashion? You know, all those cool words like social, RSS, blogs, tagging.

It may seem obvious that blog editor developer will say something like this, yeah? But, really, guys, I’m a user too, so I judge from my (user) point of view.

There’s also an argument that Flock will replace platform-specific apps. You know what? I’ve got a Mac. I use Safari, NetNewsWire, and ecto. No cross-platform apps here? That’s because I want to use only the BEST things, I want to get the most of every platform.

The bottom line: Flock have a cool browser (since it’s based on Firefox), great social bookmarking integration, crippled feed aggregator, and crippled blog editor.

I’ll stick to Firefox, FeedDemon and BlogJet.

P.S. But hey, I like Flock. Because they’ll show more people how to use blog editors. More people learn blog editors => more people want BlogJet . Thanks, guys!

P.P.S. Oh, and you can blog right from Firefox with this extension.

Nick Bradbury has a tip on TopStyle Tips blog on how to post to your blog from TopStyle using BlogJet. Read…

I’m happy to announce that an updated BlogJetThis! Firefox extension which is compatible with Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 available.

You can find it on BlogJetThis page of our wiki.

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This extension will be available in the upcoming BlogJet 1.6 final release.

Update: Just want to give a credit to James Avery and Grant Carpenter for creating the original BlogJetThis extension. It’s their extension that was modified by me.

There’s a competitor to BlogJet. I won’t call its name but it has something to do with rockets and posts . One more hint: it costs $150.

I’ve noticed it when I typed “blogjet” in Google and found its AdWords ad that claimed: “Faster than BlogJet” (update: now it’s smarter ). He-he. I sent a letter to Google and ask them to remove this ad. They didn’t answer. That’s OK ‘cause I don’t care too much. Maybe I should put an ad on “blogjet” keyword: “Don’t believe this guy”?

OK. Today I surfed and found their page. What did I see? “It’s the only blog editor with WYSIWYG editing”. Ha-ha. Have you seen BlogJet? WB Editor? Qumana? Sure you have, since you advertise with “Faster than BlogJet” slogan.

The guy just doesn’t get the nature of the Web and the power of blogs. If you don’t tell the truth, somebody will notice it and blog about it. Then somebody else will see the post and blog about it. Then everyone will be blogging that you’re a liar. Do you want this to happen? No? Tell the truth.