The results are in from the Blogger Challenge on DonorsChoose.org. Over 100 blogs and their readers helped to raise $420,000 for classroom projects benefitting more than 75,000 students in low-income communities. For more details and a list of some of …
In honor of Blog Action Day, we wanted to highlight some of the many Blogger-powered blogs that are focused on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. Want to see more Blog Action Day participants from around the web? Find them on Blog Sea…
October 15, a week from today, is Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is the environment. If you have a blog and want to join in, all you have to do is use that day to post something related to the environment, in whatever way, shape, or form yo…
Last fall, Jordan introduced us all to our first Blog*Stars: those members of our Blogger Help Group who deserve special recognition for their contributions and their dedication to helping their fellow bloggers. Our original four are all still going st…
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, I’d like to second Jordan’s shout-out to some of our enthusiastic Blogger Help Group members: We have a nice little …
We’re currently looking for bloggers to participate in a user study to improve our product. You’ve given us feedback and we’ve listened, and now we’re looking for more. If you’re interested (and if you’ve been maintaining a blog for at least 3 months),…
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 ones folks missed the most was having an Edit HTML view for their templates in the new Layouts system. I can sympathiz…
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 and start writing. In a few short weeks, you could have your very own shiny new novel. (Hint: Blog your writing as you go, to …
It’s October now, and all you closet novelists out there know what that means: It means it’s almost November. And November means National Novel Writing Month. Signups are now open over at NaNoWriMo.org, so go toss your writer’s block out the window and…
CNBC’s Morning Call has now started The Morning Blog. It’s brand-new still (just announced this morning) but here’s what they say it’s going to be like: What you’ll get when you log on to TheMorningBlog are the insights about the business news of the d…
Here’s one for the audiobook and podcast fans out there. LibriVox is a project that “harnesses the power of the many to record audio versions of books in the public domain, and ‘free’ them in podcast form.” Volunteers can claim chapters, record them, a…
Have you ever played the Exquisite Corpse game? Well, take a look at Unblokt, a collaborative writing experiment. They’re taking the same basic idea, but aiming for an entire novel, written by anyone on the internet who wants to participate. Given two …
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 it out: XBlogThis!This handy little JavaScript link lets you use the regular BlogThis! window, but with some ex…