I really hope the great blogging tool Windows Live Writer will get better over time. Here’s my wish list, in case anybody from Microsoft is listening:
It’s not much, but it will really help a lot of people.
In 2008, I wrote a review of a new phone. I am more of a journalist than a tech expert, so my opinion was from the consumer side, not from the techie who’s impressed by the accelerometer, whatever that is. The review was mixed, with good and bad, again, focusing on what the consumer needs.
Because of that review I neved got another phone from that company again. It didn’t matter I was right and the phone was a flop, it mattered i didn’t praise it. The company went and lost 50% of its valuation and i am now on the second phone from that fine company.
The question is: is it simpler to ban a blogger rather than send him a better product?
In teh past few days i’ve been approached by people asking or offering me easy jobs. Consulting or seo or other stuff like that.
There is no challenge in optimisation. The real challenge is finding something new to write about. And doing it creatively and making people think and interact with your text.
I’ve reported this problem to Microsoft, but it will probably take another 2 to 6 months before i get an answer.
The answer is simple: wlw checks for an exif. If he finds one, the image is a JPEG, so he leaves it alone. If he doesn’t, he assumes it’s a PNG, so he transforms it into one.
The image on the left is transformed. The one on the right is not.
Four years ago, Razvan Varabiescu, head of an online agency, contacted me for an advertising campaign on blogs. I chose some of the blogs i thought fit for the job and ran the first advertising campaign on Romanian blogs. After that, i stayed in touch with the other bloggers and started to ran campaigns on our blogs, sometimes on all of them, sometimes only on a few. The result was a blog network we called Blog20.