Flutterby™! : anti-social software

I finally not only got my login emails from Facebook sometime late yesterday afternoon and got my account somewhat setup, shortly thereafter I got a happy friendly email from a Facebook employee telling me that he'd helpfully reset my password.

I went and fixed that, and was faced with yet another stupid blogging tool that had lock-in notions of identity.

xunker - Super Crossposting Power is looking for the same thing I am, a tool that lets those of us who don't want to let someone else own our data manage this crap better. He points to WriteToMyBlog, a web based tool that doesn't support my web browser and that doesn't give me enough confidence to entrust them with my user name and password, and SwiftPen, a similar service that's still in beta, but I'd be super happy for something that just took a text file and posted it to all of my haunts and would-be-haunts, and ecstatically overjoyed for something that converted all of the stupid markup rules between the various sites and got that crap right.

But really I want one of these sites to let me get some sort of syndication process so that I can know when one of my friends updates a status and open up their identity systems so that I can let users on their service have access to particular entries of my own and to get the hell out of my way otherwise.