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, and are using their beta blog to document the whole thing. They’ve even got nifty integration going with Earth a…
If you’re interested in Blogger template hacking-via-javascript, be sure to check out Google’s AJAX Search API. While its home on Code contains a bunch of interesting sample apps for learning and tinkering, Google Engineer Mark Lucovsky recently publis…
(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 Blogger beta – the Boing Boing Digital Emporium:”The four of us at Boing Boing love music, comics, videos, and books. We …
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 been Blogger’s phenomenal Product Manager for the past three and a half years. There’s a blank line in title above, because y…
Alongside yesterday’s Blogger Beta launch comes some great news for Blogger API developers — Blogger now has a Google Data API! This means:There’s lots of great sample code in the Blogger/GData docDownloadable Client Libraries are provided for both C…
We recently heard from the folks at Mann Publishing that their new Blogger book has been released! Here’s what it covers:”With this book, you will learn how to use Blogger’s Post Editor and Dashboard to create sophisticated postings that include imag…
We just heard from the Ozzie developers at bluepulse that they’ve whipped up a Blogger widget for their mobile phone platform; here are a few details from their post about it:Supports HTML, so you can link to a site, another post, or another blog from …
Check out this post by CJ, who’s already integrated Google’s AJAX Search API into his Blogger blog:”A little HTML, a little CSS, and a little Javascript should do the trick. In my HTML, I used two divs, and a link to clear the results. One div is the s…
Just wanted to point to David Weiss’s outstanding blog; David works on Mac apps at Microsoft, and posts about fascinating (uh, to me at least) behind-the-scenes stuff:A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab (where they do automated QA testing)Mac Lab Questions a…
Back in March, the Google Research blog posted details about our sponsorship of this year’s FIRST – “For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” – tournament:”Google jumped at the opportunity to sponsor this organization after Dean K…
The BBC posted an interesting article about Wandering Scribe, a Blogger user in London who’s currently homeless yet managing to reach an international audience with her writings. According to her blog, it’s sounding like things are looking up:Not out o…
Google Sitemaps is now a whole lot easier to use for bloggers: “Some of you aren’t able to use our existing verification method, so we asked for your feedback on an alternate method of verification that uses a meta tag on the root page of your site. Th…
I just came across the Los Angeles Fire Department’s blog via Caterina’s post on the Flickr blog. They’re posting daily about all sorts of things, from bubonic plague facts to swimming pool safety to an Easter Egg hunt at Dodger Stadium, and even a spr…
Dr. Razavi, our on-site Doctor here at work, recently started blogging about things medical. Here are some recent posts of note:Ergonomics: Obeying the Natural Laws of Work to Avoid InjuryWhooping Cough: Why Worry?Altitude Sickness: How High is Too Hig…