Newsgator 1.3 (an RSS news aggregator) is out.  Nice Microsoft Outlook integration and support for newsgroups (an area of declining interest).  It does require that you download .Net (20 Mb).

I suspect the next step with Newsgator is to add publishing to a weblog via e-mail (Manila, Blogger, and MT).  Despite what people say about MS Word, the primary text editor people use is their e-mail system.  Given the direction of Newsgator, e-mail posting to weblogs is a natural evolution of the product.

[John Robb's Weblog]

12:50:55 PM    

Reading: Mixed grill

The best of the genre fiction I read, usually science fiction or, if you prefer, speculative fiction, has the same merits as the literary fiction I read and write. Writers such as Connie Willis, Greg Bear and Octavia Butler are as capable as some of the 'serious' writers I admire. [Blogcritics]

12:35:52 PM