Via rootprompt.org comes this article by Ubuntu Geek, “Blogging From Ubuntu Using Drivel”. It does a good job covering the basics on installation and usage.

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features.

Drivel Features

• Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals (systems based off these are also supported, including WordPress and Drupal)
• The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries
• Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting
• Offline composition and editing
• Automatic recovery in the event of a crash
• Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and MovableType categories

Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.

In 6.06 Dapper Drake:

1. rm -r ~/.gconf/apps/panel or just move the folder elsewhere if you want to back it up.
2. Log out of GNOME, then back in.
3. There is no step 3.

GNOME/GTK+ Software Repository