Alex Barnett blog : WLW

FeedDemon 2.1 Beta integrates Windows Live Writer

alexbarnett — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:50:00 GMT

Nick Bradbury announced the beta of FeedDemon 2.1 earlier this week, the feed reader I've been using for years now.

I noticed this snippet in the new features list:

Integration with Windows Live Writer.

"If you don't already have a blog publishing tool configured in FeedDemon, FeedDemon will automatically detect Live Writer. Otherwise, click the "Auto-detect" button on the "Configure Blog Publishing Tools" dialog to add Live Writer."

So I tried it out...It works! This post was created using by right-clicking Nick's post within FeedDemon and selecting Window Live Writer (WLW) from the menu (Send To >> Blog this News Item >> Window Live Writer (on your first run you need to select the 'Auto Detect Feature' - note: you must have already installed WLW on your machine for this to work...) - this copies the content of the post into WLW, ready to edit and post. Easy. Sweet.

P.S - I've got all this running on Windows Vista RC1 without any issues.

Del.icio.us plugin and Live Writer

alexbarnett — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:38:00 GMT

This post is using Scott's Del.icio.us plugin and Live Writer.

Amazon and Delicious Plugins (for LiveWriter)
I'm going to have to play around with the Del.icio.us plugin...

It works...picked up my annotation too...!

**Thinking out loud now**...

Too easy!!

So easy in fact that I think this could be a better way of sharing my bookmarks with you. You know, all those 'Links for 2006-10-05 [del.icio.us]' RSS items are ugly and dull and have no commenting ability nor permalink status on my blog nor trackback. Currently you get these via my Feedburner feed (if you're subscribed) by my splicing in the RSS feed of my bookmarks...The plugin allows me to move away from approach now (if it makes sense for me to do so).

An interesting aspect of the way the del.icio.us plugin works is that it asks you to select from all the tags you've used and then checkbox the link(s) you want to include in the post, which then appear(s) in the body of the post ready to edit. I might create a new tag I'll use on Del.icio.us for this purpose, something like 'alex_to_blog', so I can select from those items to blog.

Another nice thing about this plugin approach is that I can expand on the annotation. Today, the Del.icio.us comment / annotation field has a max char length (shorter than I think is necessary from users pov) and the annotations don't allow markup.. This way, I can to 'via' links, etc....it's just blog post now.

Anyway, initial experiment successful, let's see where this goes.

Now for the tagging (no plugin required for <microformatted> tagging with 3rd party services comes with the new beta update of Live Writer):

Technorati tags: del.icio.us, WindowsLive, tagging

Windows Live Writer Plugins Collection on Codeplex

admin — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:06:00 GMT

Via Jayson Knight and Keyvan Nayyeri, Windows Live Writer Plugins Collection are now on Codeplex.