This guy shot a construction staple through his hand and now he’s blogging about putting a second story on his house—by himself. Macabre? Perhaps. Good blogging? I think so.He slides the chamber open and calls over the foreman to take a look. Turns o…
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’…
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…
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…
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 …
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.
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…
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…
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…
Three of this blog’s contributors will be speaking at SxSW Interactive this weekend and next week in Austin, Texas. Jason Goldman is on a panel called Blogging Showdown, danah boyd will be talking about How to Leverage Decentralized Social Networks, an…
Before our big May 2004 redesign the team blog was smack dab on the Blogger front page (old school Blogger). When we gave Blogger its new look, the team blog became part of the dashboard—this is a great place to reach our users because you have t…
Let’s call it Celebrity Bloggers in The New York Times Thursday and leave it at that. There’s another article in today’s Arts section about Rosie O’Donnel’s blog: Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie O’Donnell’s Method: Create It by the Blogful.”One of them…
There’s a nice article in the New York Times Arts section today called A Computer Is Also a Screen, Wil Wheaton Discovers about Wil, his blog, and his various other endeavors.Thus was born wilwheaton.net, a site that celebrates his current roles: husba…
Natalie Glance has co-authored a paper about the political influence of blogs that “examines the degree of interaction and behavior among top conservative and liberal political bloggers during the November Presidential election.” Should be fun reading …
Tim Bray has written an excellent post about blogging and work.Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career You have to get noticed to get promoted. You have to get noticed to get hired. It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I…