It's no secret that we're big Basecamp fans here (and Campfire fans too), so we're as excited as anyone to announce that we just rolled out a new Basecamp integration feature for our popular Blinksale online invoicing service. Now you can import your clients and customers from Basecamp directly into Blinksale for painless invoicing.

If you're a designer, developer, contractor, work-at-home mom, IT consultant, or whatever, Blinksale makes your invoicing a breeze. And now, if you use Basecamp from 37signals, invoicing is even easier. If you've never given Blinksale a try you should sign-up for a free account today. We think you'll be glad you did.

Update: Use the coupon code IHEARTBASECAMP and receive $10 off your first monthly charge when you create a new Blinksale account or upgrade your current Blinksale account to new plan. The coupon is only good for new paid accounts and upgrades, and can only be used onc

We were paid to write this blog post. That's right, paid. Our bias has been disclosed. With that revelation out of the way, let's move on with the show...

Many of you have surely heard about blog advertising site PayPerPost. PayPerPost allows bloggers to make a few bucks by blogging about a product, service, or another website. The only problem (according to many) is that PayPerPost does not require the blogger to disclose the fact that the post was paid for. And they also require that the post be more or less positive in nature about the reviewed product or service. Needless to say, this opens the door for some questionable ethics.

Enter ReviewMe. ReviewMe has the potential to turn the whole "let me pay you to blog about my schtick" thing upside down. We just set up an account to see what all the fuss was about, and for kicks and grins, ReviewMe is offering the handful of bloggers who sign up early cash to blog about their own service. It's rather brilliant when you think about it.

So here we are, making a few bucks to tell you about ReviewMe. So what makes ReviewMe more appropriate than PayPerPost? Well, for starters they require you to disclose that you're being paid for a given post, hence our opening paragraph above. For seconds, your post is not required to be positive. They'll let you write whatever the hey you want, so long as you're on topic. Finally, your post must be at least 200 words long.

ReviewMe is extraordinarily easy to setup and use, and they say payouts range from $20 to $500 per post, depending on your blog traffic, Alexa rank, feed traffic, etc. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the concept, my guess is that they're here to stay. It's a slick service, and while not a fit for everybody, a good handful of bloggers will definitely take a close look at it.

We certainly won't be turning Sparkplug into an informercial. We make our money in other ways. Hopefully you won't think we've jumped the shark by taking the money and running. Really, we couldn't help it. ReviewMe makes it too easy. Really though, I want to know what everyone else thinks about this. Is it right? Wrong? Who cares? Any way you slice it, it's very interesting indeed.

It had been rumored, and now it's for real: Joystsiq is reporting that, come November 22nd, users of Microsoft's Xbox Live online service will be able to purchase TV shows and rent movies — in high definition — right through their consoles.

No optical media required.

Sony has been betting on high-definition Blu-ray movie discs to make its upcoming Playstation 3 compelling for customers. After all, it worked for them with the original Playstation — when DVD players were still in their infancy, many gamers picked up a Playstation to act as both game machine and video playback device.

Unfortunately for Sony, something happened between then and now. Digital distribution — no physical media required — swept the music industry in the form of the iPod and iTunes store. Sony seemed to be caught completely by surprise, and struggled to catch up — making a number of questionable decisions along the way, like the ATRAC audio format and the Sony Bean. Sony is still very, very far from seriously challenging the iPod's dominance in a market they once owned.

But music wasn't the only industry affected. Slowly but surely, movies have begun feeling the gravitational pull of digital distribution. Customers can now buy full-length movies over iTunes to play back on their iPods, computers or (particularly with the upcoming Apple set-top device) on their televisions.

Sony has simply bet on the wrong horse. It's a costly bet, too — the Blu-ray technology seems to be the primary culprit behind the PS3's exorbitant price and constant manufacturing woes. Pace Phil Harrison, higher-capacity physical media isn't future-proof — it's future-stupid. Microsoft is about to beat Sony to the punch with the real version of an HD video future. Where Sony will go from here, having just been robbed of its major "next-generation" selling point, I can't begin to fathom. But suddenly things just got a lot more intriguing for movie fans.

Oh, and can someone talk Kutaragi down off that ledge?

Oh snap! I just received an email a couple hours ago announcing the release of CSSEdit 2.0 for Mac OS X. I've been an avid CSSEdit user for a couple years now, and have recommended it to many of my friends. It's the cleanest, simplest, easiest-to-use CSS editor I've found. In a word, it's beautiful.

CSSEdit 2.0 has outdone itself though. I mean really, truly outdone itself. In addition to typical UI improvements, thoughtful features (like milestones, a lightweight versioning system), and better preview support, CSSEdit now allows you to load a URL into the application and edit the CSS code on the fly with live results. Holy crap!

They call the feature Preview Everything Live and it's totally worth the price of admission (CSSEdit will set you back a paltry $29). If you're building websites on a Mac, you must have CSSEdit. Wow. Great job guys.