WordPress.com is open to public! And it’s free.

Here’s the tip on how to post pictures to your WordPress.com with BlogJet 1.5/1.6 beta 1: when creating account in BlogJet, select “Movable Type API” instead of “WordPress”.

Provider: Movable Type API
Host: yourname.wordpress.com
Page: /xmlrpc.php

Update: Matt says they opened it for a bit.

Steve Pavlina launches his Million Dollar Experiment. Wow! Good luck, Steve!

Maybe I’ll try this experiment too, huh? It would be fun, I think 

Update: And I'm trying :)

Here’s a rumor I read on some Russian blog:

Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) is a nice guy. But he’s not the real owner of Google. Google is the project of US National Security Agency, which conceal an Internet division of NSA called “Echelon”. “Public” Google as we know it takes only 1% of the whole capacity [so 99% are for military purposes].

Cool. Oh, now I think it’s Al Gore who invented Google as well.

P.S. Do you want a rumor about Microsoft and Bill Gates?

There’s a competitor to BlogJet. I won’t call its name but it has something to do with rockets and posts . One more hint: it costs $150.

I’ve noticed it when I typed “blogjet” in Google and found its AdWords ad that claimed: “Faster than BlogJet” (update: now it’s smarter ). He-he. I sent a letter to Google and ask them to remove this ad. They didn’t answer. That’s OK ‘cause I don’t care too much. Maybe I should put an ad on “blogjet” keyword: “Don’t believe this guy”?

OK. Today I surfed and found their page. What did I see? “It’s the only blog editor with WYSIWYG editing”. Ha-ha. Have you seen BlogJet? WB Editor? Qumana? Sure you have, since you advertise with “Faster than BlogJet” slogan.

The guy just doesn’t get the nature of the Web and the power of blogs. If you don’t tell the truth, somebody will notice it and blog about it. Then somebody else will see the post and blog about it. Then everyone will be blogging that you’re a liar. Do you want this to happen? No? Tell the truth.

Tim Coyle publishes an interview with me.

I’ve done a mini-interview with Jack Trout for my Russian marketing-related blog. I decided to publish it here too. If you don’t know who Jack is, you don’t know what “positioning” means.

Dmitry Chestnykh: What do you think about weblogs (blogs)?

Jack Trout: Like "letters to the editor" in newspapers, some are interesting. But most are of little value. If you're going to read, there are many books far better than blogs. I don't read blogs because they are not properly edited.

Dmitry Chestnykh: How do you think marketers can use the power of direct talk with customers via blogs?

Jack Trout: Maybe. But you have to organize them so that opinions represent a good cross-section of your market.

Dmitry Chestnykh: Do you think blogsphere will be a 'PR-medium of the 21st century'?

Jack Trout: Blogs that are perceived as "independent" might have some PR value. If not, they will lose credibility or third party validity.

Dmitry Chestnykh:  Thank you very much for your answers! Keep up a good work.

NewsGator has acquired FeedDemon and TopStyle, and brought Nick Bradbury on board in the process.

Read more…

Great news for WordPress fans – WordPress 1.5.1 has been released. Please, everyone who has problems with posts, published by BlogJet, not showing on the main page, update to this version.

Google moved their blog to Blogspot (Blogger’s hosting):

To make the Google Blog a bit easier to manage behind the scenes, we're now publishing it to its new home at Blogspot: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

Now, Google, don’t you want a few copies of BlogJet to replace that “a bit easier to manage” with “super-mega-easier to manage”?

BlogHerald: “Number of blogs now exceeds 50 million worldwide”.

Blah blah blah:

“BlogJet…  this is really cool! finally the ability to blog on a plane. bring it on! ”

Comments:

• “Well, cool as long as you're not the pilot.”
• “What is blogjet? Is this an actual service provided by airlines?”

Doug Tygar:

The html generated by BlogJet is far more robust than HTML generated by Blogger. It also has a very clean toolbar (although I wish I could add an auto “blockquote” button.)

Yes, Doug, I want this button too. Advanced toolbar is what I’m going to implement in the future versions.

Micro Persuasion – Google to Host Vlogs?:

"It's an experiment we want to run," said Page of the video-uploading service, which he said the company will formally announce "in the next few days." Page made the non-announcement announcement during Monday's opening panel discussion at the National Cable & Telecommunications Show here, upstaging his luminary fellow panelists John Chambers of Cisco, Brian Roberts of Comcast, Jon Miller of AOL and Jeffrey Katzenberg of Dreamworks.

By the way, if you want to post a video to your blog via BlogJet, just click Tools > Attach File, select the video file:

and it will be attached to your post.

Michael Hyatt wrote an article on How to Start a Blog. My favorite part? Of course #5:

Consider using an offline blogging client. This isn’t a necessity but it will make blogging much easier. An offline blogging client is like a word processor for blogging. It enables you to write when you’re not online and then upload your post when you connect to the Internet. The two most popular are BlogJet and ecto (yes, the lowercase “e” is part of the branding).

Thanks, Michael!

In yesterday’s post I’ve cited the short review of BlogJet from The Great Software List, which contained the comparison with ecto – another blog client available for PC and Mac. Someone might think that I did this to make a bad PR for my competitors. No. No way.

Let me cite Guy Kawasaki (Selling The Dream book):

There are two types of enemies: conceptual and tactical…

When I was sa president of ACIUS, our tactical enemy in the Macintosh database market was Fox Software. Both companies, however, shared a conceptual enemy: ignorance among people that Macintoshes can manage databases.

The problem for ACIUS and Fox Software was not achieving greater market share but expanding the market size. In this kind of situation, tactical enemies have to stop fighting each other and fight the conceptual enemy. For example, ACIUS and Fox Software could have jointly sponsored Macintosh database seminars to show people how Macintosh databases can improve their productivity. Then, when the pie was bigger, ACIUS and Fox Software could have focused on market share.

So instead of fighting each other, we want every blogger to know that she can improve her blogging productivity by using a blog client.

That’s why I joined with Yiyi Sun, author of another blog client – WB Editor, to create BlogClients.Info –  a wiki where any developer can write about her blog client, share information on blogging APIs, etc. (Are you a blog client dev? Go ahead and let others know about it!)

That’s why I want you to choose the best blog client for your needs. I’ll be happy if you choose BlogJet, and I’ll be happy even if you choose ecto, w.bloggar, WB Editor or any other – at least, I’ll know that you use a blog client and you understand how it improves your blogging experience.

Finally, if you use a blog client, tell your friends about it!