• Works on Mozilla as well as IE
• Rich interface (GUI for simple markup such as bold and italics)
• Interface to MetaWeblog API/Blogger API

Mozblog working with Radio Userland is coming close, but couldn't we go one step further in the GUI department and use the NNTP reader that is built-in to Mozilla? The NNTP user interface is compelling:

• Folder view on left pane to display subscribed blogs, with built-in alerts for new messages
• Nice composer GUI for new posts
• Can easily copy a blog post to another folder in your mail archive - or to remote IMAP server.
• Posts can be read off-line (Radio Userland does this also)

• It would be great to be able to post comments to blog posts in the same way you comment to newsgroups - hit reply. So, does the genecast RSS -> NNTP service have an interface to blogcomments? Those comments should be nested beneath the post.
• How would categories fit into the NNTP scenario? Could I have a view of my blog posts based upon category? How would I post to several categories? Would that be the equivalent to cross-posting to several newsgroups? Hmmmm - perhaps each category would be the equivalent to a newsgroup:
  • vetula.books
  • vetula.bulgaria.news
  • vetula.linux
  • etc...
• Interface to MetaWeblog API/Blogger API

If Genecast can do these things, I would certainly be interested in subscribing to their service. Is it worth $36/year? Could they offer a blogger rate?

Some interesting NNTP links:

• Forumzilla - a Mozilla XUL-based application that provides a three-paned Usenet newsreader-like interface to web discussion forums. I think it is inactive. What's interesting is that it is similar in concept to the blog browsers everyone is talking about.
• Colobus, a news (nntp) server written in perl that serves up ezmlm mailing list archives as newsgroups.
• php-based web to nntp gateways

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