Google Data » Graham https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:09:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 The Generosity of Bloggers https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-generosity-of-bloggers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-generosity-of-bloggers https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-generosity-of-bloggers/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:46:00 +0000 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 the top blogs involved, check out the Official Google Blog.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-generosity-of-bloggers/feed/ 0 Environmental Blog Roundup https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/environmental-blog-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=environmental-blog-roundup https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/environmental-blog-roundup/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:24:00 +0000 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 Search.
  • Cleantech Blog - Commentary on technologies, news, and issues relating to next generation energy and the environment.
  • The Conscious Earth - Earth-centered news for the health of air, water, habitat and the fight against global warming.
  • Earth Meanders - Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues.
  • Environmental Action Blog - Current environmental issues and green energy news.
  • The Future is Green - Thoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature.
  • The Green Skeptic - Devoted to challenging assumptions about how we live on the earth and protect our environment.
  • Haute*Nature - Ecologically based creative ideas, art & green products for your children, home and lifestyle, blending style with sustainability.
  • The Lazy Environmentalist - Sustainable living made easy.
  • Lights Out America - A grassroots community group organizing nationwide energy savings events.
  • The Nature Writers of Texas - The best nature writing from the newspaper, magazine, blog and book authors of the Lone Star State.
  • Rachel Carson Centennial Book Club - Considering the legacy of Rachel Carson's literary and scientific contributions with a different book each month.
  • Sustainablog - News, information and personal meanderings related to environmental and economic sustainability, green and sustainable business, and environmental politics.
  • These Come From Trees - An experiment in environmentalism, viral marketing, and user interface design with the goal of reducing consumer waste paper.
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If you're game for participating, go register your blog with the 7,000+ other blogs (with 5 million readers!) that are already signed up. Also, see the Blog Action Day blog for more on how bloggers can change the world.
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We have a nice little community of Bloggers here and I'm happy to see our membership continue to grow each day. This group is here for you, Bloggers, to get help and trade tips, and I believe we have a few individuals who go above and beyond the call of duty to help folks out. That's right, we've got a few Blog*Stars (the official term) amongst us, and each of them deserve recognition. Chuck (Nitecruzr), Ron (Rat), Peter (Enviroman) and Rose (Swtrose), I'd like to thank you for the help and dedication you've shown in this group. You, my friends, are officially dubbed Blog*Stars.
Thanks to all these folks, and to everyone else who's helped to make the group not only a useful resource but the cool new hangout for our bloggers. (Including you, Jordan!)
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P.S. Just to let you know, filling out the survey doesn't guarantee you'll be contacted.

P.P.S. Thanks in advance. Studies like this are immensely helpful, letting us make Blogger as fun and useful as possible for all of you.
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I love the fact that we've got such cool new ways to just drag 'n' drop parts of your template around, and change fonts and colors with the click of a mouse. And that "shuffle blog colors" option can keep me entertained for hours. But still, there are times when you really just want to muck around in the code and nothing else will do. So for those of you who feel that way, have at it! Edit HTML is now available for Layouts.

One quick warning before you all dive in, though: The new template language is completely different from the old one. So even if you're used to working with classic templates, you'll need to learn some new tricks to directly edit the new templates for Layouts-enabled blogs. We've got some starter documentation on it, with more to come later. Personally, I recommend making a test blog to experiment on while you learn how it all works.

Have fun!
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/new-old-feature-on-beta/feed/ 0 The First Day of the Rest of Your Novel https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-novel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-novel https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/the-first-day-of-the-rest-of-your-novel/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:39:00 +0000 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 create a month-long serialized novel for all your friends. It's fun, and it's harder to quit if you have readers waiting for the next installment.) Good luck!
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For those of you unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo, the basic idea is 50,000 words of fiction in 30 days. It's not a competition -- anyone who participates can be a winner, and the reward is your very own novel. Nearly 6,000 people last year cleared the 50,000 word mark. Whether you're an experienced writer or a complete beginner, it's a creative trip like no other.

(From last year: Blog Your Novel I, Blog Your Novel II, NaNoBlogMo.)
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/write-a-novel/feed/ 0 Buy Low, Blog High https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/buy-low-blog-high/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buy-low-blog-high https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/buy-low-blog-high/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:56:00 +0000 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 day, and more importantly, how we put our show together. [...] You'll find out about our decision-making process: why and how we choose and book guests and segments, what happens when news breaks and how we make sure you get all the market information that's important at that very moment.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/buy-low-blog-high/feed/ 0 Be a Narrator https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/be-a-narrator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=be-a-narrator https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/be-a-narrator/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:00:00 +0000 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, and send them in to be added to the site's podcast, where anyone can listen to them for free. Right now they're working on Boyhood, by Leo Tolstoy and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Check out their blog to see what other books they've made available. According to TeleRead, "this is the birth of an audio book publisher, and everybody gets to witness it."
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/be-a-narrator/feed/ 0 Insert Sentence Here https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/insert-sentence-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=insert-sentence-here https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/insert-sentence-here/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:28:00 +0000 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 adjacent sentences, you get to create a new sentence to go in between them, so the whole project expands outward as you go along. Crazy, but fun (not to mention addictive). There are over 60 pages up already (and you can even read them if you want a peek). This might be a good warmup for NaNoWriMo, for those of you who are already starting to think ahead to November.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/insert-sentence-here/feed/ 0 BlogThis! on Steroids https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/blogthis-on-steroids/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogthis-on-steroids https://googledata.org/google-blogger-buzz/blogthis-on-steroids/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:48:00 +0000 XBlogThis!

This handy little JavaScript link lets you use the regular BlogThis! window, but with some extra options: blockquotes, Technorati tags, and customizable link text. So if these are things you typically add to your posts, then XBlogThis! is what you need.

And while I'm here plugging our clever users, I'll just mention that we keep a whole list of cool ideas like this that people have sent in, over in the Blogger Hacks section of our Help site. If you're itching to do some neat stuff with your blog, take a look over there and see what you like. And if you come up with something brilliant of your own, let us know!
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