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If you are tired of hearing about this 'web 2.0' all over the place, Tim O'Reilly has a run down on this.

I have been using w.bloggar for posting to this blog since its inception circa 2003. It is great tool, although there are a few functions that I really feel necessary to make it a masterpiece - one of which is SIMULTANEOUS posting to multiple blogs.

Although Bloggar and many other clients promise 'posting to multiple blogs' functionality, it is very rudimentary that they allow you to create multiple accounts... and thats it.

To post to multiple blogs, you will have to write an article, post it to one blog, then, choose another blog from a list, click a button to publish to it and then choose yet another and so on.

Why can't I just SELECT a few blogs and press the 'post and publish' button once and the article is posted to ALL the blogs I selected?

So far, this is lacking. I tried to nose around for a client that supports this one functionality I really need to post to my mirror blog on blogger network.

Here is a list of Clients that i will review briefly:

1. Qumana


2. Blogjet


3. Powerblog


4. Flock


5. Zoundry


6. Rocketblog

Update: There are more, like e.g.

1. Ecto


2. post2blog


3. Blogpost

Slashdot is discussing the story about HBO attacking Bit Torrent

User Kfg has posted a few fantastic perspectives on this matter and it starts here (click)
This post is particularly interesting:

Quote:If you don't have money to purchase something, do without. There are plenty of free entertainment services available

I have the money. I spend some of it on entertainment services, however, it is not my mission to give it to them. It is their mission to get it from me. I am under no obligation to cooperate. In fact, I rather resist. If you do not I'd be perfectly happy to get a post office box you can send your money to.Personally I insist on getting value for my money and I am the sole arbiter of what constitutes value for my money. Because it's mine.

Quote:There are plenty of free entertainment services available

Exactly! In fact, I make money by providing these, so I'm intimately acquainted with the phenomenon. When you avail yourself of my free entertainment services you are not my customer. You are my product which I am reselling to someone else. I also provide paid entertainment services, which you would likely not avail yourself of if you had not first seen one of my free services. Yes, I'm playing both ends agains the middle for my own benefit. Welcome to the middle. But if you do not feel you recieve value when I charge you I will lose you as a direct customer. That would make me unhappy.

Very good points, I responded with this:

Your post is smack right on the point, which unfortunately nobody, repeat nobody, especially not the business executives at these large media organisations seem to understand.

Dude, spend a few mins and get a webpage or a blog up. We need some serious apologetics on behalf of customers.
If capitalism is to be described in two words, it should be 'customers = kings'.

In the Entertainment industry, the commodity that is to be sold is the 'acts, creativity, talents and the show', not the MEDIA on which that is recorded.

The Industry is keen on selling the CDs and DVDs to gain profit. They seem to have forgotten that it is not the CDs or DvDs or TV shows thats important, but the content. The media is just irrelavent except that the customer needs ease of use, acessibility and total freedom over the 'CONTENT' in the media.

If it is becoming hard for the Industry to control the Content from being shared without returns on investment and profit to the industry, they should then revamp the whole industry's way of functioning instead of trying to struggle with the Media. The Media being electronic will always be easy to transmit over the networks, come what may. Heck, the networks exist for only one reason: TO SHARE, SHARE SHARE and SHARE. in short, to communicate. Don't fight against this nature of the networks.

Instead, try some creativity with the functioning, pricing and ultimately the industry itself. Or else, die. Something else will take up your place.

Mine was a spontaneous post. I think I will have to sit up and gather all my random thoughts on this matter.

The 100$ ultra-portable Laptop cum Handheld Computer cum ebook reader cum Tablet PC cum desktop theater being developed at MIT Medialabs is in all probabality devised from the same stuff dreams are made of!

It is impressive in all its regards right from its super-portability to its own inbuild hand-crank power generator.

And wow, it does got stunning looks.

And it is meant for school going children. In many ways this is one of many efforts to build a developing-nation affordable PC that will finally evaporise the digital divide just like the earlier Simputer and a host of other projects.

The story is Here along with a nice set of photos that illustrate the prototype.

Wired has the same story with a bit more info