If you are serious to blog, I don"t think you will like to use IE or Firefox to post your blogs effectively, me too. That"s why my third criteria is XML-RPC capablity. If you just want to blog, blog, blog, and blog, most of pure blog engine supports XML-RPC. For more detail, there are 2 XML-RPC APIs listed below.

1. Blogger Atom API
2. MetaWeblog API

Actually, you might see the extended version of MetaWeblog API in form of mt. Don"t think that it stands for MovableType, instead it is Meta. Blogger Atom API is the first innovative XML-RPC APIs for publishing data on website through remote interface invented by Pyra Labs (now Google). Anyway, it doesn"t support lots of features:

1. Upload media e.g. image, audio, video, and etc.
2. Modify title
3. Specify categories
4. Specify keyword

Well, all above features are well supported by MetaWeblog API. Now you should know what you want. If you are not familiar to write seriously in native HTML, you might need a kind of blog client.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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