Ghost Bloggers?

I don't know about software, but I've heard rumors that certain agents hire other people to blog for them.  Like you said Marie, it defeats the purpose.  Doesn't really show your personality.

Marie.. I've never heard of Blogging Software.  I think blogging is already very easy... and additive. 

I agree with Valerie and Kim.  I think the purpose of blogging is to demonstrate something about us.  To show we are thinking people!

I will ghost blog for someone, but I make it clear that they can't declare the material as their own.  Additionally, I won't just "write stuff" something has to come from the person whose blog it is.  We discuss topics and I try to write in a way that doesn't clash with their style.  But this isn't cheap.  I charge $15-20/hour to do it. It's really for someone who doesn't have the time or who hates to write.  But it absolutely needs to reflect what the blogger wants to present and it can't be mindless.  If there is "software" for this, I'm assuming that hundreds (if not thousands) of people are using the same material and that will negatively affect google juice as the spiders are going to recognize it as "boiler plate."  NOT GOOD.

I've heard these rumors too.  The few people I help right now use me to "fill in."  They write as much as they can themselves. I have a couple of people who run their own storefront businesses and there really is little time to write. So I set them up and write something once a week or so.

Hi Marie, that's the distinction.  Some simply don't have the time. But they can't "cheap out" and have it work. The idea that a good blog can built on "boiler plate" stuff is crazy. It won't get well ranked in the search engines and I think people can smell "canned" a mile away.

I can't get with the idea of buying blogs from others or using "blog software" to write.  I spent over an hour yesterday writing and editing a blog.  Ghost blogging erases the distinction between an agent's thoughts and un-original filler.