Oops

In this post by Robert Anderson, I made a comment that Windows Live Writer (which I am using now) did not have blockquotes.

Spike Washburn from the Live Writer team said:

>Jim Benson Said: “I must have Blockquotes”
Have you tried the button on the toolbar that looks like a quote (the tab key triggers blockquotes too)? Is there something else you are looking for blockquoting?

Oddly enough, Spike is right.  For some reason, I confused Writer with Flock's blogging tool which does not have blockquotes. 

So, I'm making a retraction of my comment and letting people know that I have a fairly glowing review of Live Writer in an earlier post.

I still want tagging and integration from non-Microsoft services like del.icio.us.  But of all the stand alone blogging tools I've used - this is certainly the nicest.

Of integrated tools, I like Performancing.

For excellent Photo integration, I like Flock.  But IT doesn't have blockquotes.

Update:  I have reviewed the new Windows Live Writer (with Tagging) here.

Comments

[Charles Teague]

Hi,

[I'm from the Writer team]. One more note- the latest verion of Writer (available at http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com) includes built in tagging functionality that supports insert tags to a number of popular sites (technorati, flickr, delicious, etc...).

Best,

Charles

[Robert W. Anderson]

Charles,

Tagging is how this all got started. I am now completely happy with Live Writer because it supports flexible tagging formats.

Cool product.
Robert

[Jim Benson]

Charles,

Great. I'll check it out now. I went earlier today to see if there was a newer version than the one I had. The download page didn't provide a version number and the app itself didn't have an update function.

I hope that's in the new one too!

Jim

[Spike Washburn (Writer Dev Team)]

I see Charles got to you before I had to make a correction about Writer already having tagging support too :-)

Glad to see we seem to be keeping ahead of your Writer needs!