Ok, I have stumbled on a new (new for me remote blog client) that I feel is as good or better than Windows Live Writer.

The latest version supports dasBlog (including images without FTP) it does not use RSD (Really Simple Discovery) but since complete support of dasBlog is built in, that does not matter!

(Note: BlogDesk expects you to have the older 1.8 series dasBlog installed which BlogDesk only supports images with FTP, so re-edit your blog profile and tell it to support direct images and it will, older verions of dasBlog may not work as well, but the current dasBlog build 1.9+ is 100% supported)

This post was made with BlogDesk!

Your need to check it out! BlogDesk

Except from site:

"No need to use those annoying HTML Tags in the WYSIWYG editor. Images can be directly inserted and are automatically uploaded. Even publishing simultaneously to multiple blogs is a matter of a click.

With the ImageWizard you can not only insert images to your posts - it's possible to edit them as well (crop, resize, rotate, shadow etc., see Examples). Even Thumbnails can be created - the preview will be shown in the blog and a click on the image will open it in its original size (just like here in the right column). Linking and uploading those images is automatically done by BlogDesk."

DasBlog 1.9.6264.0 now supports CoComment   

Track: coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you're following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation.

Share: Publish your conversations to your blog in a click, or send them to your friends via email.

Explore: Check out the top commenters, what articles and posts are generating the most comments, who's  commenting on the same conversations as you.

Cross Post from http://dasblog.info

With the current release we provide dasBlog buttons and badges for the first time. The whole set with many other formats including png is available here.

Simple jpg:

Reflection jpg:

Simple gif:

Reflection gif:

 Cross Post from http://dasblog.info

Please note these new features are a DasBlog contribution by Justice Gray.

Note that the macros below (with the exception of PrevNextSeparator) are currently implemented on Justice Gray's ( http://graysmatter.codivation.com), so you're welcome to take a look there and see how they work.

Previous Entry and Next Entry

These display a link to the previous entry and the next entry.  They *only* display if the user has loaded a page with a single entry on it, i.e. a permalink.  After all, it's pretty useless to have previous and next links if you're on the main page of the site, or looking through a full category worth of entries.  Obviously, if you are on the most recent post the Next Entry Link will not display, and if you are on the very first post you ever made the Previous Entry Link will not display. 

Both of these macros take a string for an argument (which can be empty) that is prefixed to the Previous Link's text or appended to the Next Entry's text. 
e.g. <%previousentrylink("&lt;&lt; ")%> = "<< [Previous Post Title]"
<%nextentrylink(" &gt;&gt;")> = "[Next Post Title] >>"

PreviousNextSeparator

Depending on your formatting desires, there is also a PreviousNextSeparator macro that will display a separator string of your choice if:
a) the user is on a page with only one blog post (e.g. a permalink)
b) that page is not displaying either the most recent blog entry or the earliest (because, obviously, you're not going to have both a previous and a next at the end of the spectrum).

e.g. <%previousNextSeparator(" | ")%> = " | " when in the situations described above.

RecentEntries (FrontPageTitleList)

There were two reasons I didn't like using FrontPageTitleList:
a) The table cells it created are all automatically aligned to the center using align=left, making it impossible to override this even in CSS given the precedence levels.
b) It's a bit disorienting for a user who hits your blog via an old entry to click on a recent post link and all of a sudden be jumped into the middle of nowhere (at least this is apparent in my blog's design).

Hence I made RecentEntries, which is pretty much FrontPageTitleList with two changes:
a) the alignment setting has been removed so that CSS can be used to align it
b) the links it produces are now permalinks to individual entries (which happens to work well with the previous and next links)

This docuementation was generated by Justice Gray on the DasBlog Developer E-Mail list.

Cheers

Tom