I hate being required to do anything. Being required to be connected to the Internet to have an application work is especially ugly to me. To that end, I downloaded w.bloggar. It is a freeware application that allows you to enter your blogs in a Windows application and publish the entries to your blog server. It has worked rather well so far. However, in order to get this to work with .Text, you need to take a look at this. I had to make sure that the content handlers were working properly (I used the wrong web.config file) and that I could log in properly (I had the wrong value for the blog_config.Flag column). After that, the directions in the link are all you should need to get going. Be sure to add the Categories that you want in the .Text web interface too, as I couldn't find a way to add categories from w.bloggar.

I also took a brief look at BlogJet. It appears to be poised to be better than w.bloggar in many ways. The GUI is crisper. It supports .Text out of the box. However, I'm a bit concerned about the pre-beta status and having it time expire on March 15, 2004. They're also going to make it shareware as opposed to freeware. I'm OK with buying shareware, but it better add value over freeware apps then. w.bloggar will suffice for now.

Lastly, I did some digging on RSS aggregators. In my mind, FeedDemon stood head and shoulders above the rest. Plus, Nick Bradbury is a Delphi guy who writes amazing software (see HomeSite).