The Wordpress developer team tries to secure Wordpress. Hence, they deactivated the XML-RPC and the Atom API.
Without these APIs it is not possible to post to your blog using a desktop blogging software like WIndows Live Wiriter.
Thankfully they didn’t delete this API. It can be activated in Wordpress Administration (Settings –> Write).
via Frank Bültge

How to run Windows Live Writer on an Asus Eee PC?
flickr user Irregular Shed shows us how:

This is Windows Live Writer running on Windows XP, running virtually on Ubuntu 8.04 running virtually on Asus Eee PC. This setup let windows use 192 MB RAM. An according to the guy who did this, it’s perfectly usable.
Irregular [...]

As a sideline an anecdote.
The new version number of the Live Writer Technical Preview is 14. When i saw this, I remembered that the previous release had version number 12. I assumed, version 13 was a developer release and never public. So I asked Ste and he forwarded my question to Scott. Apparently Microsoft Software [...]

In the Technical Preview of Live Writer a new SDK is also included.
The new SDK isn’t a release, it’s a Technical Preview like the new Live Writer an therefore it’s not intended for production use. That’s why Live Gallery doesn’t accept plugins based on the SDK 1.1 Technical Preview. It’s also possible that the Developer [...]

After a long time of inactivity, we relaunched the english Live Writer Blog.
The new Live Writer Blog is based on Wordpress instead of dasBlog. Along with this new base there are numerous of new features. You can rate the plugins we write about also the author of a post about a plugin can rate the [...]

There was a dangerous problem brought up on Windows Live Writer MSN Group.
Problem:
When you try to publish a post to your blog you are getting this error: “An unexpected error has occured while attempting to log in: Blog Server Error  Server Error -32700 Occured parse error. not well formed”
Solution:
This Problem occures when you use wordpress [...]

To use the HTML-Tags <abbr></abbr> and <acronym></acronym> one had to insert this tags directly in the html code.
“Insert Acronym Tags” is a small plugin which provides a tiny GUI to insert abbreviations or acronyms.
An article about the use and the future of these two tags can be found on SmackTheMouse.com
Download the plugin
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For those of you using the online storage web service “box” there is a plugin to link shared files in a blog post very easy.
The installation is very easy thanks to the integrated installer. No other configuration has to be done.
After installation a file can be inserted into a blog post by clicking on the [...]