Autoblogger
Autoblogger made me snicker. (Thanks to Eszter over at Crooked Timber). The byline is: “You have a life. AutoBlogger helps you live it”.

From the site’s FAQ
1. What is AutoBlogger?AutoBlogger is a powerful content-authoring software tool designed for online columnists and bloggers. Upon installation, AutoBlogger uses a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithm to ‘read’ the public entries of your journal/blog to triangulate a sense of your writing style. From that point forward, any time you hit a writer’s block, want to take a vacation, or simply wish to step away from your computer for a few days, AutoBlogger can be set to take over, using what it has learned about your posting and writing patterns to author original content in a voice consistent with your existing prose.
AutoBlogger frees the busy blogger to a life outside computers, by giving your readers the impression you are constantly online.
Anyway, it’s firmly in the “just because you blog doesn’t mean you’re interesting camp”, and all the healthier for it.
[Update: not sure about the personal attacks page in the stories, though. At all]







Strange, I saw the “personal attacks” as self-effacing contributions, or at least ironic. No ?