The BlogThis! function that you can get as a right-click menu plug-in for IE & Firefox (and most likely other browsers) and that is also available in the Google Toolbar and Mozilla Googlebar is a pretty handy dandy feature for those of you who get into running your own blog.

But besides letting you post to your blog from any webpage (e.g. you don’t have to sign into Blogger.com everytime) it also allows you to upload files which in turn makes it an ftp program that you can essentially use in combination with your Blogger account’s free hosting, Hello!/Picassa, Audioblogger & Notepad to create a pretty serious webpage without paying a dime.

More about the implications of what all of this free software might mean…