I'm brand new to blogging so I get overly excited about every little tool which might possibly make my life easier. It was about a month when I had first heard about LiveSpaces, and ever since then I have completely changed the way that I interact with the Internet. Now, instead of using Firefox for viewing all of my RSS feeds, I imported all of them to my Live.com homepage, also instead of using stupid MySpace for my social-network-time-killing activities I now use LiveSpace which is great. Although I do have one huge complaint about it, it doesn't support the ability to leave a comment on someone's page unless it is in reference to a blog entry. I'm sure it won't be long until someone makes a gadget for this but until then I think its gonna be hard to move anyone over from MySpace. Enough about that.

When first contemplating which .Net blog engine to use, I basically narrowed it down to Community Server and DasBlog. Although I thought Community Server looked much better (the dasBlog themes are lacking a lot), I decided to go with DasBlog mostly because I felt that some of the features in Community Server were overkill for the kind of blog which I was looking to start.

LiveWriter offers:

1. Manage your blog(s) from a local windows application.
2. Automagically upload all local images which were locally added to your posts. (for DasBlog this needs to be configured using FTP)
3. Bult-in publishing support for DasBlog, Community Server, Word Press, of course LiveSpace, and many more.
4. An SDK for developers to extend its functionality.

Download LiveWriter (beta)