The New Version of Blogger Unknown 17.30 Add Comment Unknown The new version of Blogger in beta is dead! Long live the new version of Blogger! (P.S. The old version of Blogger is not dead, but it woul... Read More
Peace Corps Blogging Unknown 16.34 Add Comment Unknown A fellow Googler just let us know that her friend Aaron is currently blogging his Peace Corps experience from Togo, West Africa . In his ow... Read More
Switching with team blogs and getting out of beta Unknown 09.30 Add Comment Unknown Just before the weekend we added the final piece to the transition from old Blogger to the new Blogger in beta: members of team blogs can no... Read More
News for Curious Cooks! Unknown 19.23 Add Comment Unknown If you happen to be a foodie, and enjoy reading foodie books, you've probably got a copy of On Food and Cooking somewhere on a nearby b... Read More
Eric Case talks Blogger Beta on videoblog Unknown 10.15 Add Comment Unknown Eric Case , of Blogger and Google Developer Relations, chatted with noted videobloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson about videoblogging,... Read More
So long, and thanks for all the Blogger! Unknown 16.15 Add Comment Unknown Today we’re saying goodbye to Steve Jenson , who is leaving Blogger and Google. SteveJ — seen here with his backing band — has worked on ... Read More
(BLOG) RED Unknown 11.39 Add Comment Unknown From the Google Blog : You might have noticed from the Google homepage that today is World AIDS Day . We want to remember all those who hav... Read More
Blog*Stars Unknown 15.01 Add Comment Unknown With those of us in the U.S. about to celebrate Thanksgiving, it's a good time for us to express a bit of appreciation. In that spirit, ... Read More
JSON on the new Blogger Unknown 17.48 Add Comment Unknown From Michael Bolin’s post on the GData APIs blog : For those of you who have been trying to build client-side GData mashups but have been th... Read More
New Accounts on New Blogger Unknown 10.00 Add Comment Unknown Today we’ve reached another milestone in our transition to a better Blogger: all new accounts are being created on the new version of Blogge... Read More
Switch your FTP blog to the new Blogger Unknown 14.45 Add Comment Unknown Last week we added FTP publishing to the new Blogger in beta . Today we’re letting you switch your FTP-publishing blog from the current Blog... Read More
Blogger Beta: Feature Complete! Unknown 12.34 Add Comment Unknown This morning's push marks a huge milestone for the version of Blogger in Beta - it's finally feature complete! Aside from its inte... Read More
Join a User Study Unknown 09.03 Add Comment Unknown We're currently looking for bloggers to participate in a user study to improve our product. You've given us feedback and we've l... Read More
The Blogger Outages (a novel) Unknown 17.22 Add Comment Unknown It was a dark and stormy night. The air was quiet. Too quiet. Yet stormy. Suddenly, a beep rang out from a bedside pager. The engineer woke ... Read More
Chowing down on dogfood Unknown 11.44 Add Comment Unknown There's a saying in the software industry -- it's always good to eat your own dog food. Wikipedia has a great article about this: &... Read More
Labels Management for Blogger in Beta Unknown 13.12 Add Comment Unknown Want to add labels to all your old posts? There's a new labels management feature to make this easy. On the Edit Posts page, you can ... Read More
Make Money with your Beta Blog Unknown 11.44 Add Comment Unknown We've made it really easy to put AdSense ads on your blog using the new Blogger in Beta. If you're using the new layouts-enabled t... Read More
Google Earthlings Unknown 07.46 Add Comment Unknown Check out the Google Earthlings blog ! 5 Google folks (plus their dog Sparky) are participating in 24 Hours of Moab the weekend of Oct14-15... Read More
Post to the Blogger beta from Picasa Unknown 12.50 Add Comment Unknown One of the last features missing from the new version of Blogger in beta — posting photos directly from Google’s Picasa photo organizer — h... Read More
AJAX Search API Hackery Unknown 09.32 Add Comment Unknown If you're interested in Blogger template hacking -via-javascript, be sure to check out Google's AJAX Search API . While its home on... Read More
Moblogging on the beta Unknown 15.44 Add Comment Unknown Do you remember the Blogger Mobile jingle ? I am happy to report that we have added “the rest” to the new version of Blogger in beta. If you... Read More
Notable Blogs Unknown 13.19 Add Comment Unknown (just linking to a few notable blogs that crossed my path in the past few days) 1. The Boing Boing crew just launched a new blog on Blogge... Read More
Comment Like a Pirate Day Unknown 19.25 Add Comment Unknown Ahoy sailors. The infamous pirate Edward Teach once wrote in his ship’s log (or “p’slog” in 18th century slang): Such a day found one with a... Read More
Flickr Support for Blogger in beta Unknown 10.42 Add Comment Unknown I’m very pleased to announce that Flickr has added support for the new version of Blogger in beta! Now you can blog and post photos directl... Read More
Update on image upload problems Unknown 15.40 Add Comment Unknown In the past month we’ve made a number of changes to image uploading to detect and solve the problems that some folks have been having. The n... Read More
Known Issues for Blogger in Beta Unknown 16.39 Add Comment Unknown Some of our users have expressed concerns about the lack of up-to-date information on issues and bugs they’re seeing in the new version of ... Read More
Happy Labor Day! Unknown 16.08 Add Comment Unknown Many of us in the USA are celebrating Labor Day today, which marks the end of the summer and is generally a good opportunity to have a backy... Read More
The Design of Everyday Login Boxes Unknown 10.45 Add Comment Unknown In his landmark book The Design of Everyday Things , Donald Norman writes: The human mind is exquisitely tailored to make sense of the world... Read More
New Old Feature on Beta Unknown 20.21 Add Comment Unknown Blogger in beta initially launched without a few features -- it's still a beta version after all -- and it turned out that one of the on... Read More
So long, and thanks for all the ___! Unknown 09.46 Add Comment Unknown I'm saddened to have to do this again , but today we're saying our collective goodbyes to Jason Goldman, Mr. Goldtoe.net , who's... Read More
Happy Birthday Blogger! Unknown 08.55 Add Comment Unknown On this day in 1999, Pyra Labs launched Blogger which Ev announced on his own blog. As you can see , Blogger was quite the looker back the... Read More
Beta Update! Unknown 11.33 Add Comment Unknown Thanks very much to everyone who has submitted feedback thus far on the new Blogger in beta! I wanted to give an update on: migration, login... Read More
Blogger API Update Unknown 17.01 Add Comment Unknown Alongside yesterday's Blogger Beta launch comes some great news for Blogger API developers — Blogger now has a Google Data API ! This m... Read More
Blogger API Update Unknown 16.04 Add Comment Unknown Hi folks, Just posting to let subscribers to this blog's feed know that new Blogger/GData documentation is available on code.google.com ... Read More
Blogger in beta Unknown 12.19 Add Comment Unknown Today we're launching a new version of Blogger in beta! You've been asking for ways to do more with your blog, and you can with this... Read More
Go Mobile Unknown 10.56 Add Comment Unknown A while back we mentioned that we've been working with Sony Ericsson to incorporate blogging into their new generation of cameraphones.... Read More
Blogger in India Unknown 14.43 Add Comment Unknown It has been widely reported that Internet users across India are being blocked from accessing a number of blog hosting sites, including Blo... Read More
It's BlogHer time Unknown 13.53 Add Comment Unknown That's right -- our friends at the homonymous BlogHer are getting ready for their second annual conference, which takes place on July 2... Read More
Act break Unknown 11.55 Add Comment Unknown Alex Epstein has a cool blog about screenwriting in which he gives advice, talks about what he's working on and recently tackled the mo... Read More
Here comes the hammer Unknown 14.35 Add Comment Unknown Congrats to Blogger user F-train for winning the World Poker Blogger Tour 2006 Summer Tournament this past weekend in Vegas. I've been... Read More
New Blogger Book Unknown 05.05 Add Comment Unknown We recently heard from the folks at Mann Publishing that their new Blogger book has been released! Here's what it covers: "With t... Read More
bluepulse Blogger widget Unknown 09.27 Add Comment Unknown We just heard from the Ozzie developers at bluepulse that they've whipped up a Blogger widget for their mobile phone platform; here ar... Read More
Do you know how crazy that sounds? Unknown 20.19 Add Comment Unknown Chelsea Peretti is funny lady who likes pictures of cheese (judging by her blog , anyway). I also recommend her latest video, Roadtrip . Read More
Joga Bonito Unknown 15.17 Add Comment Unknown Did you see the Netherlands/Portugal game on Sunday? Wow, not exactly Joga Bonito with a record number of cards given out in a World Cup gam... Read More
Homeless Unknown 12.56 Add Comment Unknown Great article in Wired News about how homeless folks can use blogging to reach out and express themselves online. I never thought about ho... Read More
Stuff to Think About Unknown 17.00 Add Comment Unknown Check out this post by CJ , who's already integrated Google's AJAX Search API into his Blogger blog : "A little HTML, a little... Read More
There are four lights Unknown 16.42 Add Comment Unknown There should be more fictional blogging. As a guide I suggest you check out Jean-Luc Picard's blog : A vital part of engineering has br... Read More
Awesome Blog: David Weiss Unknown 16.19 Add Comment Unknown Just wanted to point to David Weiss's outstanding blog ; David works on Mac apps at Microsoft, and posts about fascinating (uh, to me a... Read More
Alaa Unknown 14.29 Add Comment Unknown See Ethan Zuckerman's blog and Anarchogeek for details. Read More
FIRST Unknown 10.48 Add Comment Unknown Back in March, the Google Research blog posted details about our sponsorship of this year's FIRST - "For the Inspiration and Reco... Read More
Wandering Scribe Unknown 10.27 Add Comment Unknown The BBC posted an interesting article about Wandering Scribe , a Blogger user in London who's currently homeless yet managing to reach ... Read More
Sitemaps and Blogs Unknown 11.19 Add Comment Unknown Google Sitemaps is now a whole lot easier to use for bloggers: "Some of you aren't able to use our existing verification method, ... Read More
I <3 L.A. Unknown 12.32 Add Comment Unknown We're doing some user studies about how folks work with photos online. To participate you must: live in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica o... Read More
Word Verification For All Unknown 16.00 Add Comment Unknown One of our most effective tools for preventing spam and automated abuse of Blogger is our word verification image. We require it to be solv... Read More
LAFD Unknown 10.49 Add Comment Unknown I just came across the Los Angeles Fire Department's blog via Caterina's post on the Flickr blog. They're posting daily about ... Read More
Google Doc Blog Unknown 12.10 Add Comment Unknown Dr. Razavi, our on-site Doctor here at work, recently started blogging about things medical. Here are some recent posts of note: Ergonomics... Read More
Blogswana Unknown 11.50 Add Comment Unknown Check out the Blogswana project! Background here : "The one-year pilot project will work with a group of about 20 college students fro... Read More
NYT: Elderbloggers Unknown 13.32 Add Comment Unknown The NYT has a good article about senior citizen bloggers that includes interviews with Blogger users Mort Reichek and Milt Rebmann . Quoth... Read More
On Spam Removals Unknown 17.09 Add Comment Unknown As others have noted , we've made good progress in the past six months in reducing the amount of spam on Blog*Spot. One of the tools we&... Read More
Blogger's a Fabulous Freebie! Unknown 11.10 Add Comment Unknown PC World has some kind things to say about Blogger, in its 101 Fabulous Freebies feature: "Our favorite service is Blogger . The firs... Read More
NYTimes Most Blogged Unknown 12.51 Add Comment Unknown Be sure to check out the New York Times redesign that just launched . Anil talks a bit about it at the SixApart blog , and Khoi discusses i... Read More
Concerning the Historie and Nature of Blogs of Note Unknown 10.49 Add Comment Unknown Way back in — one might say — the “D” “A” “Y,” when Blogger was made by Pyra , before Ev forgot how to read , and most people hadn’t heard... Read More
Channel 4's 121 Unknown 16.47 Add Comment Unknown Channel 4 in UK has launched a site called 121 for fostering dialogue between paired sets of folks, one in the UK and one in another countr... Read More
Search policy Unknown 10.10 Add Comment Unknown Last Friday, Inside Google posted about a Blog*Spot user who had allegedly received an email from Blogger that stated the MSN Search box on... Read More
Freevlog Unknown 10.06 Add Comment Unknown Last week at SxSW I met Michael Verdi , who pointed me toward Freevlog , "a step-by-step guide to setting up a videoblog for free.&quo... Read More
With Apologies to Mike Judge... Unknown 17.41 Add Comment Unknown You may remember a certain scheduled outage when we removed a particularly hated piece of network equipment from Blogger’s production setup... Read More