There's been lots of discussion over Microsoft's pretty decent desktop blogging client, Windows Live Writer. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer story that I was quoted in apparently got reprinted all over the place, and I think the basic point was that I'm glad that mostly everybody in the blogging biz uses nice open APIs.
More interesting to me, though, was the evidence of people trying the program out. Just search for "Temporary Post Used For Style Detection" and join the fun.
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There's a detailed explanation about the temporary post phenomena here:
http://primordial.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/got-temporary-post-used-for-style-detection