I've been using an excellent RSS aggregator lately from Nick Bradbury (original author of HomeSite and current author of TopStyle) called FeedDemon. I've found that this program is like liquid caffeine for my news addiction. It's still in beta right now, but the latest feature is integration with w.bloggar so you can use FeedDemon to keep you up to date with your favorite blogs as well as to update your blog.
Since I've just started this thing out, I downloaded w.bloggar to give it a spin. While Blogger.com seems to be great, especially since you can blog from anywhere through their web interface, I like having a Windows GUI from which I can blog as well. I use Mozilla FireBird as my browser, so I don't always trust every web site to fully support me. Especially when it comes to doing the kinds of advanced things with HTML that the Blogger.com web site does. I've also heard horror stories from others about their login to Blogger.com timing out while writing longer blogs causing them to lose their post. My parents have been known to suggest that I give the Reader's Digest version of stories from time to time, so the thought of this happening to me didn't sit well either.
So far so good, I think. This is my first post with w.bloggar, so we'll see how things go. It's certainly a pretty slick looking program and I like having an integrated spell checker.