Michael Hyatt wrote an article on How to Start a Blog. My favorite part? Of course #5:

Consider using an offline blogging client. This isn’t a necessity but it will make blogging much easier. An offline blogging client is like a word processor for blogging. It enables you to write when you’re not online and then upload your post when you connect to the Internet. The two most popular are BlogJet and ecto (yes, the lowercase “e” is part of the branding).

Thanks, Michael!

We now have Family Pack license available (up to 5 family members) for purchasing. It's only $69.95 - cheaper than 2 copies.

Also, for those of you who already bought a single copy, an upgrade to the Family Pack is available for $49.95 until April 30, 2005. Use this link: http://blogjet.com/order/familyupg/

In yesterday’s post I’ve cited the short review of BlogJet from The Great Software List, which contained the comparison with ecto – another blog client available for PC and Mac. Someone might think that I did this to make a bad PR for my competitors. No. No way.

Let me cite Guy Kawasaki (Selling The Dream book):

There are two types of enemies: conceptual and tactical…

When I was sa president of ACIUS, our tactical enemy in the Macintosh database market was Fox Software. Both companies, however, shared a conceptual enemy: ignorance among people that Macintoshes can manage databases.

The problem for ACIUS and Fox Software was not achieving greater market share but expanding the market size. In this kind of situation, tactical enemies have to stop fighting each other and fight the conceptual enemy. For example, ACIUS and Fox Software could have jointly sponsored Macintosh database seminars to show people how Macintosh databases can improve their productivity. Then, when the pie was bigger, ACIUS and Fox Software could have focused on market share.

So instead of fighting each other, we want every blogger to know that she can improve her blogging productivity by using a blog client.

That’s why I joined with Yiyi Sun, author of another blog client – WB Editor, to create BlogClients.Info – a wiki where any developer can write about her blog client, share information on blogging APIs, etc. (Are you a blog client dev? Go ahead and let others know about it!)

That’s why I want you to choose the best blog client for your needs. I’ll be happy if you choose BlogJet, and I’ll be happy even if you choose ecto, w.bloggar, WB Editor or any other – at least, I’ll know that you use a blog client and you understand how it improves your blogging experience.

Finally, if you use a blog client, tell your friends about it!

An interview with father of CSS and CTO of Opera Software (via Nick Bradbury)

BlogJet appeared in The Great Software List:

Prompt. Although it's a simple tool for posting and managing blog entries, BlogJet is not intended to have all features for all people. It does a few things well: integrate with existing blog services; post photos; and allow blog entries to be posted quickly with minimal effort. The reason the price is $40 rather than ecto's $18 is that it works more efficiently with fewer steps to accurately complete a post. BlogJet integrates with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers; FeedDemon, RSS Bandit, NewsGator, and other news aggregators using Blog This! to enable you easily blog about the current web page or news items. If you're an everyday blogger, then you need this tool.

Congrats to Dave, whose blog turns 8 today.

Matt, leading developer of an open-source project WordPress, publishes a response to the recent noise about wordpress.org spamming Google with more than 100000 articles.

Matt, we don’t care about all this. We just love WordPress

Yahoo has acquired Flickr and Ludicorp (via Nick Bradbury)