Walt Mossberg’s vacation-time replacement, Thomas E. Weber, introduces WSJ readers (free link for 7 days) to news readers in today’s Journal. He especially recommends Bloglines for beginners. That’s my reader of choice, too.
Bloglines just underwent a nifty new redesign. Have just skimmed the surface of the blogging features and find them pretty basic (and this from someone who uses Blogger). I’d anticipate this kind of integrated reader/blogging software would be handy for link posting, but it’s unlikely to be able to compete with the more full-featured blogging software like that from SixApart.
I dream of the unified blog tool, but for now it seems there are those that are best for pictures (for me, my T-Mobile Photoblog), those that are best for links (Bloglines), and those that do everything else. Then there are things like FeedBurner, the features of which I could see being incorporated into a full-fledged blogging service at some point.