March 24th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Last year Jennifer Garret wrote an article called New Jocks on The Blog about sports fever and blogging. It looks like things are heating up again. The spring training announcer for the Chicago Cubs just wrote in to Blogger Buzz to let us know that he’…
March 23rd, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
In the next few weeks, British climber Gavin Bate will be attempting a solo summit of Mount Everest, for a charity called Moving Mountains. He’s blogging the adventure, and will also be phoning in reports via AudioBlogger. Here are the key dates: 28t…
March 21st, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The latest issue of BlackBook is all about diaries, journals and weblogs:”Among publishers it’s an article of faith that people no longer want to read books; they just want to write them. The old adage that everyone has a novel in them is being teste…
March 21st, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
OurMedia.org, a joint effort by Marc Canter, J.D. Lasica, Drupal/Bryght and the Internet Archive, just launched. From the FAQ:”The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff…
March 21st, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Looks like Lions Gate Films set up Blogger blogs for a few of their upcoming movies. So far David Duchovny and Rob Zombie are blogging, and a few other DirectorBlogs are coming soon. Neat!
March 19th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Wendy Cheng aka the award winning blogger XiaXue (Are you worshipping the ground she walks on?) scored an endorsement deal from a t-shirt company called LocalBrand because of her blog.SINGAPORE BLOGGER SCORES A HITThis Singaporean was signed on in Dece…
March 18th, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
If you’re into newsreaders, be sure to subscribe to the Blogger Status feed — it’s the quickest way to stay on top of the massages Blogger’s been having lately.Here’s the URL: http://status.blogger.com/atom.xml
March 18th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
It just occured to me that there are Blogger t-shirts available at the Google Store. They’re both comfy and we designed one to look like an old gym shirt. I love the descriptions:Blogger T: “Sure, there are plenty of T-shirts out there. But this one is…
March 17th, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Gosh, it must be Code Week or something at Google. My and Steve’s project launched Monday on the Google Blog: “We just pushed an updated version of Blogger’s Atom API live, and wanted to post about it here to spread the word… In addition, we’ve re-la…
March 17th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
I just recieved an email from a Blogger user named Wayne asking if we were going to address some of the slowness issues with Blogger. We do still update Blogger Status (although there was a recent glitch with it). Performance is a huge priority for us …
March 16th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Eric and Steve posted a Blogger API update over at the Google blog yesterday. There will be more about that sort of stuff at The Blogger Developers Network so feel free to check it out from time to time if that happens to be your cup o’ tea.
March 16th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Thanks to everyone who came by our party last night in Austin. There were all sorts of folks showing up and it was great meeting many of you. In fact, I’m pretty sure there were a lot more people this year than there were last year. Maybe it has somet…
March 13th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
If you’re in the Austin area, you might like to know we’re throwing a party. Food and drinks are on us—just leave me some hummus. I do so like the hummus. It was fun last year so we’re doing it again same place, same time:Club De Ville900 Red River S…
March 12th, 2005 | by Biz | published in Google Blogger Buzz
There has been an interesting development in the Apple vs. Bloggers situation. There’s more about it here: Apple Can Demand Names of Bloggers, Judge Says.Judge James P. Kleinberg of the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., said in a 1…
March 11th, 2005 | by Jason | published in Google Blogger Buzz
“The Photobloggies is an annual award ceremony celebrating photoblogging around the world. Through the Photobloggies, you can find some of the best photoblog sites on the internet, chosen by photobloggers and photoblog readers. Organized by Brandon Sto…
