I’ve read several posts, and received even more emails over the past few months about folks having trouble publishing images to their blog service from Live writer.  It seems Blogger  users have the most trouble, but it is not limited to them.  This problem also applies to ink blogging from the plugin, since ink is converted to an image format for publishing.

There is one easy solution to this, and that is to publish the images to a third party FTP server.  There are many free services out there, and DriveHQ is one that I have tested with Live Writer, and gives away 1Gig for free!

Two caveats:

• Outlook blocks the DriveHQ confirmation, and deposits it in the junk folder by default – make sure to look for it there
• As with any ‘free’ service, make sure you keep your own backup of published images.  Just in case.

Hope this helps a few more people (with handwriting better than mine 🙂 ) to start ink blogging soon.