Connecting Gadgets, Without Wires. Three years ago, a wireless technology called Bluetooth arrived with great fanfare, then flopped. Now, Bluetooth 1.1 is set for release. Is it any better? By David Pogue. [Headlines From The NY Times]

It won't be ubiquitous for another five years, but why not envision a soon-coming world where you-and-your blogging communities will be in touch 24-hours a day. Optionally. Turn them off when you wish. 1,500 companies are working hard to exploit the technology even now.

9:46:24 PM    

Word Blogger is a port of my previous Word blogging macros to XML-RPC, this means they now work with other blogging tools besides Radio, and also you don't need to fiddle with Radio to enable the SOAP version of the BloggerAPI, it can all be enabled from the prefs page. It also includes a couple of tweaks suggested by Omar Shahine.

The next step is to call blogger.getRecentPosts so that its easier to edit existing posts from Word. The hurdle here is converting the HTML back into a sensible word document [surely Word must be able to do this for me ?] [Simon Fell]

Not for end users quite yet but a harbinger of a world where web services will allow us to choose our editor of choice and post to our weblog tool of choice.

9:34:20 PM