If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why?

What would be your top 5?
Mine are:
Google Reader
Wordpress
Firefox (spellchecker)
Flickr
Akismet

The Blog Herald discusses 29 Traffic Generating Tips From 29 Bloggers.

Entertainment giant Viacom Media has announced that it is going to sue web search engine Google and video sharing website YouTube for $1bn (£517m).

Oh! Paramount – do us all a favour LEAVE STAR TREK ALONE ,your wrecking it! x

And for you Twits out there – Twitter users ,that is, Alex King has been busy…