What is Pocket Blog?
Pocket Blog extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device. Weblog entries are maintained offline. When Internet connectivity becomes available, such as when your Pocket PC is placed in it's docking cradle or a WiFi card is inserted, changes are automatically posted to your weblog. Pocket Blog also downloads recent weblog entries, enabling you to edit entries that were originally posted from your desktop.
Pocket Blog works with your existing weblog software rather than replacing it. The initial Pocket Blog release implements the Blogger API, which is supported by many popular weblog packages including Blogger, Movable Type, and Radio Userland. A future release of Pocket Blog will also implement the MetaWeblog API, which is presently supported by Radio Userland. The MetaWeblog API adds support for categorization of weblog entries, and should be supported by other weblog software in the future.
Pocket Blog's codename was Mobile Offline Blogger.
The first public Beta of Pocket Blog is due to be released during the afternoon of Friday, April 12th, 2002. The system requirements include a PDA running Pocket PC 2002 with the Visual Basic Runtime, 100kb of storage memory, and 2MB of program memory, and at least 1MB of free program memory for peak (temporary) usage. Memory requirements will vary based on the size and number of cached weblog entries, which is user-configurable.
The developer's testing PDA is an Audiovox Maestro with 32MB RAM and the PPC 2002 Service Release. Modern PPC 2002 devices have 64MB RAM, and therefore should not have memory issues while running Pocket Blog.
Emulator screenshots from Beta 1:
    
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