To help encourage me to blog a bit more often, I’m trying out some of the blogging clients that are out there. This post has been written in Windows Live Writer, which is written by Microsoft. My first impressions are really good. It’s very well featured, and the plugins available are simply awesome. There’s a website screenshot plugin, so rather than just talk about websites, I can SHOW you them.

There’s a Wikipedia plugin that lets me select a word/phrase and click a button to turn that word into a link to the relevant page. Here, look at the entry for Morecambe.

My house! The Insert map function (no plugin needed) lets you embed images from Microsoft virtual earth. Round where I live the aerial photography is nothing compared to Google Maps/Earth, but MS also go and provide their “Bird’s Eye View” imaging, which gives you a really high res image from all four compass points. I have to say, I’m pretty impressed.

This looks like a truly great blogging client. I’m just hoping that Ubuntu has something as good for my laptop!