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Over the last week or two I have been evaluating some blogging applications for OS X Leopard. The two which I received several recommendations for were MarsEdit 2 by Red Sweater Software, and ecto 3 (beta). Both of them seem great at what they do, and if I had to purchase one today, I would have a very hard time deciding which one.

So before I really start evaluating both of these, I wanted to ask the community again for recommendations. There are so many applications out there I don’t want to overlook anything else that people are using. So if you know of any other blogging applications for the Mac, please drop me a note, or leave your comments in this thread.

Sarah Perez over at ReadWriteWeb wrote a great article today and social media, and the time spent using it by people.  She took an “unscientific” poll on Twitter and came up with some really interesting responses.  Check out the full article on ReadWriteWeb.

Link: Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media

Piracy, whether it be of games, movies, software, or music is a pretty hot topic these days.  On one side you have people against piracy who usually claim copyright should be protected and what people are doing is just plain stealing.  On the other side there are people who think attempts to squash piracy are against someones “freedom” and argue that piracy doesn’t affect the bottom line in business.

I have been looking through a bunch of websites that one could say the readers are more “supportive” of piracy and I noticed that what seems like a majority of these people seem to also be vocal in U.S. politics.  It also seems many of these people lean more to the left of the political spectrum, although I can’t find any data to officially back that up with.  However, I think it’s an interesting question to ask.  Does ones political affiliation and beliefs lessen or strengthen their stance on piracy?

Now before people get all bent out of shape, let me say I’m not accusing someone of advocating piracy because they are more liberal or conservative, but I do have my personal theory that one side is more acceptive of the practice than another.  It’s common to hear that people who are younger are typically more receptive to piracy than someone much older, but you never here much about their politial, or even religious, preferences.

My belief is people who are more liberal, meaning fairly far left, will be more likely to accept the practice of piracy.  Why do I think that?  Well first of all, far left thinking is that capitalism is bad, and anyone who makes a profit is somehow “evil”.  This also goes back to the reality that liberalism is more in favor of entitlement, and that someone who makes money somehow “owes” it back to society.  This creates an attitude of basically “I don’t care” and that stealing someones copyrighted material doesn’t mean anything because they are retalitating against the “greedy” industry.

What is your opinion?  Do you think an individuals political leaning affects their stance on piracy, or do you think it has no connection at all?

The much anticipated WordPress 2.5 was released earlier today.  This is a pretty significant update and a ton of new features were added, one of the most notable being the redesigned Dashboard.

There are just too many features for me to describe, so just check out the WP 2.5 blog post for all the information.

I updated my personal blog in less than 10 minutes without any problems.

Download: WordPress 2.5