It just depends on what you are out to accomplish. They definitely aren't unimpressive or there would be no market for them. Many of the features that high end platforms have allow the greater flexibility with automation tactics. I know wp o matic cannot perform the special features of BlogSense's Amazon or Youtube Modules, which employ scraping additional content from search engine results pages and product pages, as well as gathering and posting user comments as wordpress comments. wp o matic also cannot turn partial rss to full rss like BlogSense can. Its true you can use yahoo pipes for this, but there is a very high learnign curve for yahoo pipes and many get discouraged and quit before they figure it out. Also, my BlogSense provides the ability to source content from article websites that doesnt even provide rss feeds. On top of that there are other features such as mass search and replaceing, automatic link stripping, and same server image hosting.
for autobloggers here: do you manually put the tags and do you manually fill in the "All in one SEO" for each posts?
BlogSense auto creates tags for sure. WP robot the same Autoblogger the same. Or are you talking about something different?
I am using Wp-o-matic and I have the simple tag plugins... I belive SEO works better for posts if the All In ONE SEO form per posts is filled up.. is there a way to automate the tags or All In ONE SEO for each post? have you used All In ONE SEO?
No, I dont use it. Sorry. You could email the author and ask for this though. He is best for updating this. I bet his personal version does it.