May 11th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
May 10th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
May 9th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
May 8th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’re doing some user studies about how folks work with photos online. To participate you must:live in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica or the surrounding areapost photos online We are looking for all levels of users to take part in this study and will p…
May 1st, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
One of our most effective tools for preventing spam and automated abuse of Blogger is our word verification image. We require it to be solved to create a blog or post to blogs our automated spam classifier catches, and offer it as an option for you to …
April 19th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
April 17th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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…
April 12th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Check out the Blogswana project! Background here:”The one-year pilot project will work with a group of about 20 college students from one of the major universities, and provide them with blogging and journalism expertise and guidance. They would commit…
April 11th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
The NYT has a good article about senior citizen bloggers that includes interviews with Blogger users Mort Reichek and Milt Rebmann.Quoth the Times:While the 65-plus age range is notoriously tech-shy, many say that the blog-hosting companies make it sim…
April 6th, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As others have noted, we’ve made good progress in the past six months in reducing the amount of spam on Blog*Spot. One of the tools we’re using is an automatic spam classifier. The risk in using a classifier is that we will mistakenly identify good co…
April 5th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
PC World has some kind things to say about Blogger, in its 101 Fabulous Freebies feature:”Our favorite service is Blogger. The first major free blogging tool (launched in 1999), Blogger stays ahead of the game by remaining incredibly convenient to use …
April 4th, 2006 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Be sure to check out the New York Times redesign that just launched. Anil talks a bit about it at the SixApart blog, and Khoi discusses it on his site. The part I’m most excited about is the Most Popular box in the right column — next to most ema…
March 30th, 2006 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Way back in — one might say — the “D” “A” “Y,” when Blogger was made by Pyra, before Ev forgot how to read, and most people hadn’t heard about these new “web-enabled Internet log pages” (aren’t you glad people stopped calling th…
March 23rd, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Channel 4 in UK has launched a site called 121 for fostering dialogue between paired sets of folks, one in the UK and one in another country. It’s like a public penpal session written in blog format. For example, their first blog is written by Steve -…
March 21st, 2006 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Last Friday, Inside Google posted about a Blog*Spot user who had allegedly received an email from Blogger that stated the MSN Search box on his blog constituted a violation of Blogger’s Terms of Service. I’d like to clarify a couple of points about th…