So far I'm very pleased with this Windows live writer... I was looking at the "plug-ins" website and this one looks somewhat interesting to cross post blog entries to other social media platforms such as twitter and FaceBook.  After attempting to install it and wanted me to upgrade to ".net 3.5"... now I see why Microsoft is giving away the software for free... because it forces people to upgrade parts of their operating system which in turn makes developing on the Microsoft platform more attractive to software vendors which in turn creates more software available for Windows which in turn completes the cycle.

You can actually update your web log without logging in to your blog account… you just need to install a program on your computer like rocket post or Windows live writer.  I installed both of them and here are some of my observations: With Windows live writer you can paste screenshots directly into the application from your clipboard… you can then crop, rotate, add borders, adjust contrast, or other special effects. Images are automatically published when you click save. RocketPost would not allow you to paste in screenshots directly from the clipboard… however I did have a "capture screen" […]