Ever want to know what bloggers are saying about a web page but been too lazy to do anything more than watch slick animations? You clearly ...
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Macworld SF bloggers lunch
Just wanted to remind everybody that the annual MacWorld SF blogger lunch is coming up in a few weeks, so mark your calendars! Upcoming.org...
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Blogger Support in Lovento
Last week the folks from Lovento wrote in, letting us know that their site now supports Blogger's API . You can see the functionality...
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Brazilian Belle du Jour
Like Blogger-powered Diary of a London Call Girl , a few months ago a Brazilian blogger ( nsfw ) landed a book deal, and apparently it'...
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A Pulitzer for Blogger Buzz?
Not quite, but according to the CBC , online journalists are now eligible for the Pulitzer Prize : "Internet journalism received a leap...
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Blogger Hoodies
Can you tell it’s a bit of a slow Friday at Blogger? Anyway, here’s Prashant and me being happy and excited in our new Blogger hoodies, whic...
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Tips for Increasing Pageviews
Darren Rowse, blogging at ProBlogger , posts 11 tips for increasing pageviews . This is mostly in the context of advertising on blogs (nothi...
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Blog*Spot is Happy Again
You may have noticed a bit of an unplanned outage for Blog*Spot blogs yesterday afternoon. We’re really sorry about this. There was an unli...
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Recently Updated with less Spam
Because of the improvements we've made over the past several weeks, the amount of spam hosted on Blog*Spot has been significantly reduce...
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Play Blogpoly
Based on a blogging-themed version of the Monopoly board from littleoslo , gaming site Kurnik just launched Blogpoly . From their post abo...
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Additional options for Backlinks
Previously, we tied the post-level setting for Backlinks to the Comments setting. Turns out that proved a little limiting for some folks. ...
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PHP Atom API Library
Beau Lebens recently informed bloggerDev that he's posted a PHP library for interacting with Atom APIs (like Blogger's ): http://d...
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An Argument for Cat Photos
Marc Hedlund, blogging at O'Reilly Radar , makes a case for adding perhaps-inconsequential tidbits about yourself to your blog as a way ...
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Sausage bloggin'
Hot Dog Spot "is the weblog of a crack team of 'dogophiles' who are hot on the trail of the best dog in Los Angeles!" God...
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EFF Guide to Student Blogging
In addition to their Legal Guide , the EFF has published a Guide to Student Blogging ; here's a snippet: Do I Have More Protections for ...
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Blogger Outage Indicator
Every once in a great while (and much less now than in the past), we have to take Blogger down and poke at it for a bit. Blogger Status is ...
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Sorry, PuppetVision
As a consequence of adding the PuppetVision blog to Blogs of Note, I contributed to overwhelming the quota for their image hosting. Sorry ...
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Comment Moderation
We've just introduced a frequently-asked for feature, comment moderation . By using this feature, you can approve or reject what would-...
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Counting Heads
A couple days ago, I picked up David Marusek's novel, Counting Heads, based on Cory Doctorow's ecstatic review over on BoingBoing. ...
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The First Day of the Rest of Your Novel
It's November, and it's novel-writing time! If you haven't signed up already, you can do so at NaNoWriMo.org , or just dive in a...
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Unreliable Narrator
I remember the first time I read Tony Pierce's blog because I'd only been working on Blogger for a short time, and the fact that I ...
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If you can't say something nice ...
As a good number of folks have noted, the cover story of next month's Forbes magazine features an article titled "Attack of the Bl...
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Spam, APIs and Whitelisting
We've pushed some additional changes this week to make it more difficult for spam to be created using our API and other tools (this incl...
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Blog Book Deal
Sounds like cooking blog Chocolate & Zucchini just scored a book deal : "Life changes? Yes, indeed: today seems like the perfect da...
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Spam Barriers (Redux)
Today we are posting a revised version of the word verification system we released yesterday. With this version we have resolved a number o...
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Spam Barriers
One of the ideas I mentioned yesterday was making it more difficult for would-be spammers to post. Earlier today we pushed out a change tha...
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On Spam
Spam is a tricky problem. Or as Matt Haughey says "spam bloggers sure are resourceful little bastards." For a while now, the Blo...
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Weblog Usability
Jacob Nielsen has a new Alertbox column: Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes . He has some good tips and points worth considering,...
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PHP Atom API Code
In case you're ever looking for example code for posting to Blogger's Atom API from PHP, see this post on bloggerDev : " Worki...
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Photolightning
Our friends at Photolightning just released their latest version , which incorporates some nifty Blogger functionality — it can post photos...
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Photolightning
Our friends at Photolightning just released their latest version , which incorporates some nifty Blogger functionality — it can post photos...
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Blogging in the Early Republic
Indeed, blogging demonstrates the persistence of a key truth in the history of reading … that readers, in a culture of abundant reading mate...
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Introducing Backlinks
Interested in finding out who's linking to your posts? We've just introduced a new feature called Backlinks that makes it easy to f...
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Google Reader in the Wild
So we (Google) have launched a service called Reader as an experiment on Google Labs. Reader has been the fascination of a group of develo...
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Write a Novel!
It's October now, and all you closet novelists out there know what that means: It means it's almost November. And November means Nat...
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The Number One* Neil
A few of us got to have lunch with Neil Gaiman today — he's on tour and stopped by to give a short talk about (and reading from!) h...
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Buy Low, Blog High
CNBC's Morning Call has now started The Morning Blog . It's brand-new still (just announced this morning) but here's what they s...
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At the ole (kick)ball game
On Saturday, the Blogger team squared off against our good friends from Flickr in the sport of kings ... kickball. (Well, it's the spor...
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Blogger @ Webzine 2005, SF
Jason Goldman demoing Blogger during the blogging tool dance-off.
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New Blogging Handbook
Reporters Without Borders just released a "Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents:" "Reporters Without Borders has produ...
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Get Rich Quick(er)
We've just made it a lot easier for Blogger users to make money using their blogs. Our new integration with AdSense lets you signup fro...
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Scheduled Outage later today
Sorry for the late notice, but there'll be a brief outage (~15 mins) at 4pm PST today, for a server memory upgrade. Details are on Statu...
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Better the Bottom of Your Blog
If you’re looking for ideas for meddling with your blog’s template, take a look at how Derek Powazek focused on the bottom of the page when...
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Webzine 2005
A bunch of us Bloggerfolk will be at Webzine 2005 this weekend in San Francisco. If you're in town, please come by and check us/it out...
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New Voices
This sounds like a fantastic program : "New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United Sta...
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Be a Narrator
Here's one for the audiobook and podcast fans out there. LibriVox is a project that "harnesses the power of the many to record aud...
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Blog Search: Quick update
Both of the Blog Search issues mentioned the other day have been resolved. (Also did you know we had advanced operators? It's true .)
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Insert Sentence Here
Have you ever played the Exquisite Corpse game? Well, take a look at Unblokt , a collaborative writing experiment. They're taking the s...
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Alexa blog
I just noticed that the main news column on Alexa is powered by Blogger ! Looks like the Alexa team is digging Blog Search : "I don...
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Blog Search: Redirects and Indexing
The great thing about launching Blog Search is that it's very easy to find out what people are saying about the product. And the feedba...
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Explore Blogs
How often do you update your blog? Weekly? Hourly? Secondly? Hundreds of new blog posts go through Blogger every minute of every day . That’...
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So long, and thanks for all the Knowledge
Jason Goldman saying goodbye to Blogger Buzz's founding father . Good luck at Odeo , Biz!
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Great Use of Blogger Images
Photo-A-Day is a picture from each day of Tim Halberg's life from August 31, 2005 on. ( Via being jennifer garrett - yet again, I know...
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Katrina Thanks Blog
Katrina Thanks is a public forum to express thanks to individuals, organizations, and countries that have assisted with relief efforts. The...
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Editors' Blog
The UK newspaper The Guardian recently underwent a complete redesign and now the editors there are letting us behind the scenes with their ...
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Today's Blog Is
A while back, Jen Garrett made a pledge to visit 100 blogs in 100 days . That is a bold endeavor and only the most stubborn among us could p...
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The Future of Moviegoing
MobMov is a grass roots guerilla drive-in movie event type of thing. They represent the future of going out to watch movies with friends. D...
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Flag Day!
Matt Haughey has inspired other bloggers to organize an official day to help us find spam blogs. This is such cool idea! In addition to hel...
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Blogger's Block?
Check out these Writing and Blog Prompts, Topic Generators, and Photo Inspiration : "Need an idea or a writing prompt or two to get you...
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There Will Be Many Stories
Michael Homan shares his personal account, One of the Millions of Hurricane Katrina Stories . "There was a group of officials going aro...
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Next Blog, Now With Less Spam!
I am sure that many of you enjoy clicking the "Next Blog" button on the Blogger Navbar and browsing the fascinating blogs of fell...
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Daily Scare
Eugene Smith is posting a monster a day over on his new blog, Monstercake . Spooky.
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Blogger Op-Ed
Blogger user Jeremy Blachman has a great Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, for his writings on Anonymous Lawyer ; here's a snippet: ...
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Eine Kleine Nacht Blog
One night the gifted young pianist Jeremy Denk accompanied Emma Bell in Mozart and Debussey songs, and also played Bach's Third English...
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The Revolution Will Be Pencilized
Pencil Revolution is a blog about pencils . "Wooden wisdom." Nice. I like the list of famous pencil users including Leonardo da Vi...
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Blogads Logo Contest
Blogads is having a Logo Contest and they hope you (the bloggers) can help. $1000 to the creator of the new logo and $300 to the blogger wh...
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BlogThis! on Steroids
Do you use BlogThis! ? Ever wish you could customize how it works? Ken Dyck had some good ideas and decided to do something with them. Check...
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Running and Blogging
Scott Dunlap wrote in to let us know that his blogspot-hosted A Trail Runner's Blog was voted Best Health and Fitness Blog by Forbes M...
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Business Week Best of The Web Survey
BW Online is running some surveys . For the next five days, we're running a series of surveys that give you the chance to vote on the be...
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100 Blogs, 100 Days
Jennifer Garret is going to read a new blog every day for 100 days . That's the idea anyway. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I...
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Communication Nation
Communication Nation : "Communication is one of the most important skills anyone can have, in business and in life. As individuals and ...
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API of the week!
FeedBurner just announced their RESTful Feed Management API : Tired of coming to FeedBurner to analyze your stats? Use the API. Tired of ...
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Not automatic for the people
There have been some good questions sent in about the new Flag feature. One thing we've seen is the worry that blogs could be removed b...
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Word Verification for Comments
We've just introduced the option to require word verification for comments . This option (off by default) gives bloggers a tool to prev...
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Flag As Objectionable?
Have you ever found yourself clicking the Next Blog button over and over again only to come across a blog that wasn't exactly to your t...
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Sneaky Stuff
Work Blog - A Third of Your Life, All of the Time is a blog from Work Magazine. It's a good blog and they have this thing that lets you...
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Cloudburst Mumbai Blog
Cloudburst Mumbai : "News and links to news about the cloudburst on the 26th July, 2005, and its aftermath." (Via BoingBoing )
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Nonprofit Blog Exchange
The Nonprofit Blog Exchange "will be a day (or whatever is decided) where nonprofit bloggers will exchange blogs. This is for any blog...
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Family Guy's 'Freakin' Blog'
There's a Family Guy blog with posts from writers, directors, interns and others that work on the show.
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To Have And To Blog
Word on The Internets has it that Eric and Kathleen were married by blog. Apparently, there's a little known law governing informal ma...
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Help Us Help You
Sometimes I can sense what people are thinking. It's weird. However, when it comes to improving Blogger a more scientific approach is re...
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The Amazing Blogger Twins
Identical twins Cameron and Damien Barrett from Brooklyn, NY are long-time bloggers using a blog to try and up their chances of getting ca...
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BlogMarks support
François Hodierne recently implemented Blogger Atom API support on blogmarks.net: "The good news is that this PHP/PEAR implementation ...
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Public Service Announcement for Bloggers
The Nonist has published ( in PDF form ) an interesting little pamphlet called What Everyone Should Know About Blog Depression . There is a ...
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Two Minor Updates
We've just added two new sections to Blogger's Atom API documentation : Save a Post as Draft Blogger Extensions Draft is what you...
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Laundry! Swimming! Airplanes!
Director Kevin Smith's blog is called My Boring Ass Life . What's in a name?
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Emmy Nominated Blogger
Blogger and news correspondent Kevin Sites has been nominated for an Emmy . Congratulations Kevin! (Via BoingBoing )
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Blogs In Space
Aliens love blogs too! Alien Blog IconSome 60 years ago humans first began transmitting television signals powerful enough to reach beyond o...
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We are widening the corridors
From CNET's latest top 10 list : "Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability t...
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Cambodian Bloggers
Wired News has published an article about Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia . A Cambodian nonprofit worker traverses the country, teaching stude...
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Photos in Blogs
This slideshow of photos from some photoblogs over at the BBC's web site is neato. Should you be so inspired, remember that you can upl...
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Doodle Me This
I was just reading BoingBoing and found this blog by incessant doodler Paige Pooler . She's got a little blogfolio going over there. I ...
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The Great Nanny Wars of 2005
Daddy Types calls attention to some interesting developments of the blogging-at-work variety. There was this Nanny, see. And she had this b...
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Bring Back The Couch
The Daily Show recently underwent a set redesign and people are not happy about the fact that the couch is gone. Especially this guy .
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Open The Hand
I spent last week in Boston. However, before I left I went to an Ottmar Liebert concert at the Saratoga Mountain Winery, the beautiful venue...
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And oh how they danced
photo credit: Graham Waldon (who also writes our Blogger Hacks articles) Got a photo of Blogger cavorting in an exotic locale? Let us kno...
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Dashboard Stats
We've re-enabled post counts on the dashboard. But remember, it's quality not quantity.
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Spam Fighting
Via BoingBoing comes this post at The Republic of Geektronica: The Strange World of Blogspot Spamblogs , which points out a new kind of spa...
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The Blog Business Summit Is Coming!
And Blogger users get a special discounted rate . I went to the last one and it was great. This time, the BBS is being held in a palace. An ...
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A Layout Solution
We have a fix for Blogger users experiencing template woes due to our recent update. First, I'd like to explain what the issue was. In o...
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Layout Solutions
Update#2: There is a way to fix the layout problem without using any special code. It is now just a setting in Blogger: Read all about it . ...
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Lots of Images
The reponse to Blogger Images has been huge! There's LOTS of images being posted and we're psyched. Some users did experience a temp...
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Blogger Images!
As you can see by this screenshot of the Blogger.com front page featuring my cat, we have launched Blogger Images . Now you can put a photo ...
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API from FeedBurner
Dick just announced FeedBurner's Feed Awareness API , which "enables any 3rd party to query feed statistics on FeedBurner feeds....
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