Newsgator 1.3 (an RSS news aggregator) is out. Nice Microsoft Outlook integration and support for newsgroups (an area of declining interest). It does require that you download .Net (20 Mb).
I suspect the next step with Newsgator is to add publishing to a weblog via e-mail (Manila, Blogger, and MT). Despite what people say about MS Word, the primary text editor people use is their e-mail system. Given the direction of Newsgator, e-mail posting to weblogs is a natural evolution of the product.
[John Robb’s Weblog]