Over on the Budding Bloggers Network, there has been a lot of discussion about helping fellow bloggers achieve their blogging goals. A couple of suggestions have been put forward including cross blog conversations (something I am yet to be convinced about) and a pro-active approach to encouraging comments. My latest suggestion is one that I have borrowed from my day job, the concept of peer reviews.

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The ever popular blogging engine Wordpress has an accompanying iPhone application. Now at version 1.1 the application remains free and open source. It is well written, runs smoothly and has some nice touches that inspire confidence during use. It is a shame then that the focus of this application is on a task not suited to the mobile environment.

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Things Touch is a task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch from the team over at Culture Code. It is the mobile sibling of Things, the desktop task manager for OS X. I’ve been using Things Touch for a couple of weeks now and on the whole the application is well thought out and easy to use. There are a couple of areas where more work is needed, and it is good to see that most of these are promised in future updates.

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