Darren Rowse had a look at a poll that LifeHacker had up recently about desktop blog editing tools.
The major result of the poll does not suprise me, with over 60% of the respondants not using a desktop tool. Darren then lists what he would like in a desktop blog editing tool:

One Click Blogging
Manage Multiple Blogs [...]

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Brendon Connelly of Slacker Manager recently needed to get a thing or two programmed in PHP as well as some CSS editing, and instead of taking his time and energy to do it himself, he outsourced it to Rentacoder.com.
I set up an account, had my PayPal account verfied and submitted a project for bid.
I [...]

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Akismet has done a great thing and introduced a tiered Enterprise pricing service starting at $50 a month for 5 commercial blogs. They have also added a new level of service for those using the Akismet API for various other tools beyond the original WordPress blogs it was created for.
The first thing you’ll notice is [...]

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Darren Rowse of Problogger.net has put up his A to Z of Professional Blogging, a list that includes basically every service or application you might need for blogging, many of which Darren has used himself to become the problogger he is today.
Following is my A to Z of Professional blogging including blogging tools, platforms, services [...]

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A little while back Chris Tingom of Brainfuel asked what FTP programs everyone used, since he could not find one with an interface that suited him.
In the end he made a list of the software mentioned to him via comments on the post, and surprisingly to me, there was only one Linux tool mentioned.
Here are [...]

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Feedburner and TypePad recently announced a partnership which will allow TypePad users to easily transfer their RSS subscribers to Feedburner’s service, which will give them stats and thus a better understanding of their readers. This is the first major partnership from Feedburner, but no doubt there will be others.
To connect your weblog’s feed to FeedBurner, [...]

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Many people have been happy with ShortStat statistics application and its WordPress plugin WP-Shortstat, but many of us found that it died after a while, or can’t get it to work in the first place. Our options seemed limited. Do we go ahead and buy Mint for $30 a site, which is created by the [...]

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Over at Duct Tape Marketing there is a great post about tools that can be essential to your blogging routine.
Things like a feedreaders, e-mail subscription options, ping services, bookmark managers, blog stats tools, and desktop posting applications.
While he does not cover every option around these different topics, he does highlight some of the more [...]

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One thing that I don’t think enough people are taking advantage of is the multitude of Technorati tagging plugins for WordPress. Tagging your blog entries is like yelling out to the world “I have a story about this!” and so it brings in a few more people to that post than you would have had [...]

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Jensense has all the details on what is going on with some new features released for the Chitika eMiniMalls service.
Background Colors
Things they have added include background colors. In your control panel, you will now find a color picker you can use to select custom background colors.
Or if you don’t want to use the control panel [...]

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The big ad network of the day is Chitika. Their new mini-malls format has been getting rave reviews from just about everyone.
The concensus is that the eMiniMalls provide a lower click through rate, but a higher rate per click. I have recently signed up to have the ads on my site, but don’t take [...]

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quickSub is a cool little JavaScript that makes your RSS feed link come to life with one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators. Once your reader places they’re mouse over your XML link they are presented with a ton of choices. Try it on the author’s website.

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RMail is a web based application where you enter your favorite RSS feed and RMail will send you an email with every new blog posting.
Found via Google Blogoscoped.

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WordPressDash OS X Widget is a blogging tool for your Mac OsX dashboard. Derived from DashBlog, WordPressDash was built especially for WordPress users and offers category support.

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PubSub LinkStats displays your inlinks and outlinks both textually and graphically for the past 30 days.

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It seems forever and a day since I started my first blog using B2 back in June 2003. At that time B2 had a thriving community surrounding it and the discussion forums read very much like the WordPress forums do today. I don’t know the whole story but apparently official development of B2 ceased and [...]

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When will I be able to track the number of subscribers to my RSS feed? I don’t want to use Feedburner or any other 3rd party tool. I could look at Apache logs or look at the stats from BAStats but WordPress feeds can be accessed from different URL’s so I never know how [...]

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This application and tutorial creates a WordPress aggregator blog where you can aggregate all of your favorite blogs creating a WordPress look and feel. This is similar to the [[python]] application Planet but places individual feed items into familiar blog posts.

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Feed Shark is an RSS submission service that submits your RSS feed to over 20 different sources.

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For all you Mac users:
Photon is smart, intuitive, and highly configurable and gives you the power to manage your Movable Type™, TypePad™, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto.
It’s the missing link between the world’s greatest photo management software and the world’s favorite blogging platforms.

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