Must Have for Bloggers

I just found this amazing new tool from Windows Live for my blog.  It's called "Windows Live Writer."  I'm excited to try it out because I don't have to log into Blogger to use it.  Apparently, it works with blogger and I can publish right from the program on my desktop.  It works with WorldPress, too.

You can switch views from HTML, to web layout - actually see your blog post without actually posting.  It makes it nice for previewing how its going to look.  I can insert videos of my fetching cat as well as photos right from the editor.

What's also really cool, you can insert maps of locations, powered by Virtual Earth, so you can count the cars parked in your driveway from

a satellite aerial view.  Here's a map of my friends city in Canada.  I don't have his address yet but I'm going there this summer.

As far as I can tell, every person blogging out there needs this tool.  It's incredibly useful and easy to use.  Plus, you can install it on all your PC's and laptops so you can publish anywhere, not that you couldn't simply log in and do that anyway.

One downfall is the tagging/label system.  Blogger, the site I use, creates labels for your posts and creates html pages based on those labels.  This, however, uses popular tagging sites, like 43 things and del.icio.us