I’ve written a number of different articles in the past, exploring the difference in the blogging experience between blogging via the browser (i.e. using the built-in WordPress 2.7 AJAX interface), or blogging with the best of the Linux clients (i.e. Flock) or Windows (i.e. LiveWriter). 

Now that I’ve got the newest Windows Live Writer 2009 up and running, I’m preparing to make another go at this.  But before I do, I want to make sure my list is complete, in coming up with the best blogging client and environment on the net. 

Here’s what I’m comparing, and please comment if you know of a better one that I’m missing out on:

  1. image Windows Live Writer 2009:  It’s what I’m writing this current post on, and has been updated as late with a new-look UI, and some nifty new features.  Once more, it’s tough to beat the simplicity and speed of being able to paste the clipboard straight into a blog post as a drop-shadowed or reflected images like this can.  Really pretty slick. 
  2. Microsoft Word 2007:  After years of being an OpenOffice.org man, firing up Word 2007 surprised me when I saw the detailed blogging features it has.  How about the ability to stick smart charts straight into your blog as an image!  Looks cool, but has anybody even used that feature yet?  I have yet to see an Office 2007-authored WordPress blog, so I don’t know – will have to test it.
  3. Flock browser:  Another long-term favorite of mine is the Flock browser’s built-in blogging interface that remembers all of your blog accounts and allows a hotkey-assisted blog-this in any operating system – Mac, Linux or Windows.  And I’ve blogged on each quite extensively, and haven’t seen anything else on Linux that’s as polished. 

    4. Now, unfortunately for me I know there are more (like BlogJet, ScribeFire for Firefox, etc) but will need to see how many of those other ones really bring something neat to the table.  There have been some past reviews of the field from some months ago, but now I want an updated view.

    I’ll get back to you on this thread once I’ve gotten to wring some work out of these clients, but would welcome any suggestions or opinions!