...and finally, this entry is via the RSS Bandit plugin (mentioned below) and Windows Live Writer. It was a little hard to get it unpacked - I had trouble decompressing the binary distribution, but the source distribution worked fine and even had binaries in it - but other than that, it was totally simple.

This is going to make it really easy to post things really quickly. I hope the image below shows up - that has always been one of the hassles with posting in the builtin editor in dasBlog. [fingers crossed] 

I just got an email from J.J. Allaire pointing me to the blog post on the Windows Live Writer plugins blog entitled Windows Live Writer Blog This for RSS Bandit which states

And now comes Blog This for RSS Bandit.

RSS Bandit is a popular feed reader (what are feeds?) which by default can Blog This with w.bloggar (a desktop blogging client) and post to del.icio.us.

Installation is simple albeit manual. Extract the file, highlight the files, then copy and paste them into the RSS Bandit plugins folder: not into the Windows Live Writer plugin folder.

Start RSS Bandit. See something you would like to write about? Right-click on the headline and choose BlogThis using Windows Live Writer.

Windows Live Writer launches with the Select Destination Weblog window where you select which blog to post to. Once selected it takes a moment or two and then there is your screen with the text from the feed’s post:

I just wrote about wanting to write this plugin a few hours ago. I'll probably still write one on my own and replace the w.bloggar plugin in the default install of RSS Bandit with a Windows Live Writer plugin. Perhaps even an installer for existing users who don't want to wait until the next version of RSS Bandit to get this feature? 

Source: Windows Live Writer & RSS Bandit Together at Last
Originally published on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:57:08 GMT