Whilst many blogging platforms come with excellent web-based administration interfaces, a variety of desktop tools can make the experience far more enjoyable. With a useful set of applications installed, managing a blog is a far simpler and more natural experience.

Today we’ll be looking at 60 applications for desktop blogging and tweeting, formatting images for your posts, recording screencasts, utilizing social media, communicating with other bloggers, and keeping track of statistics.

Lots of good apps here. I use several of the tools. For the editor set: ecto and Blogo get my vote. Screenshots: Skitch. News reader: NNW (which is getting a lot of dev attention now).

Maybe blogging is simple enough that we don't need many tools now?