Florida Coastal Mangroves provides the resources needed to re-establish the mangrove population not just in Florida but for all coastlines where mangroves are endangered. Mangrove services include: The sale of mangrove seeds The sale of mangrove plants Contract growing Habitat restoration Spoil island restoration Mangrove Consultation and Planting Mangrove plants are also available for purchase and perfect for Aquariums! The Importance of Mangroves to our Ecosystem To most people in Florida, just the word "Mangroves" conjures up images of dark green canopied, swampy tangles of algae and barnacle laden reddish brown roots and limbs, crawling with everything from tiny crabs to mosquitoes and no seeums, with a distinct stenchy odor found no where else on the planet earth. In fact, mangroves comprise the most bio-diverse coastal wetland ecosystem found in the state and quite possibly could be the single most threatened, as well. It is almost impossible to imagine the number of acres which have been lost due to waterfront development, infrastructure projects, and the introduction of exotic invasive species. If you were to place an economic value on the remaining 550,000 +/- acres of Mangroves in Florida, the amount would be in the Trillions of dollars. How could that be, you ask? Well, this is how: Mangroves start by filtering out sediments washed into the estuarine zones from inland and upstream sources. They thrive along the coast and intertidal zones providing a nursery for nearly all of the commercial species of seafood harvested and many of the sport fish that are caught off our shores as well.  Birds, barnacles, and algae's also benefit from the limbs and roots of the Mangroves by providing nesting grounds both above and below the waterline. As a secondary benefit they also act as a buffer between ocean and barrier islands and help reduce erosion of the shorelines and act as protecti

New Blog Editor - Blog From Your Phon

I am always looking for ways to be productive while on the go. One of the reasons that I quit updating this blog as frequently as I used to was that I started traveling so much and spending so much time in traffic, I just didn't have time to keep up with all the things I need to do.
I have tried to blog using my phone's browser by connecting to the online blog entry page. That is incredibly painful. Scrolling up and down, trying to click on buttons, zooming in and out; it was a lesson in frustration. Now, I have finally found a tool that allows me to blog, with ease, from my blackberry (although I do have one issue that prevents me from using it on this blog).
The new tool is called BlogLive and it's from a company called imoblive. It runs on BlackBerry and Symbian (and may run on other j2me platforms). You can view the entire list of supported devices.
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Some of the product features (from the publisher web site):

Supports multiple blog accounts
Efficiently create, edit and delete posts
User library support for frequently used words and phrases
Advanced text editor: Easily insert text URL, online image in your posts, without having to enter any HTML codes
Supports major online mobile systems including the Blogger, WordPress, Movable Type, TypePad, and MetaWeblog API for compatibility with a most blog sites

You can see from the screen shot above that it does in fact support multiple accounts. From the menu, you select Add to add a new account. One the new account screen, you enter your connection and XMLRPC information. You can select from a list of blog types.
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I was able to get it publishing for my wordpress blogs but I could not get it to work with Blogger no matter what I did. I think I may have the Xml-Rpc link wrong but I can't find any definitive information for the right link. I used the link that is in my Zoundry Raven blog editor but that didn't work either. If you use this editor and get it working with blogger, please let me know. I would love to get this working.
Once you have it configured, it is a nice, if simple, editor. Select New Article and then start writing.
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If you are going to be entering URLs or images, you might want to use the Advanced Editor. You get a nice large screen as well as some additional options for input. It is still a manual process but I hope they make this even easier over time.
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It also has a spell checker. One of the nicer features is the User Library. In that library, you can add often used snippets of text. Footers, common links, signatures, etc. Open the library, select your snippet and it's added to your post.
The editor costs $17.99 and that price includes a free year of upgrades. Support seems to be minimal; I can't find any beyond an email address. There is a FAQ but it doesn't even mention BlogLive.
Still, even with its issues, I find it to be a nice product. I will wait and see how often it gets upgraded before purchasing it and I want to work out the blogger issue. If I can get it to work with Blogger, I will probably buy it.
Let me know if you use and what platform you use it with. If you get it working with Blogger.com, please, please, let me know.
A funny note. When my spell checker hit XMLRPC, it came up with SMALLPOX as a replacement. I have often thought the same. ;-)
Thanks to,
LewisC

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