November 14th, 2005 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Every once in a great while (and much less now than in the past), we have to take Blogger down and poke at it for a bit. Blogger Status is the most comprehensive place for outage alerts, but who wants to have to check another blog? Now we have a new wa…
November 11th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Carla Johnson for AP on rise of blogging by senior citizens:Joe Jenett, a Detroit-area Web designer who has been tracking the age of bloggers for a personal project called the Ageless Project, said he has noticed more older bloggers in the past two yea…
November 9th, 2005 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As a consequence of adding the PuppetVision blog to Blogs of Note, I contributed to overwhelming the quota for their image hosting. Sorry ’bout that. I don’t know if it’s helpful or extortion to mention Blogger images as a way to post images with…
November 4th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’ve just introduced a frequently-asked for feature, comment moderation. By using this feature, you can approve or reject what would-be commenters are looking to post before it goes live on your blog. This is useful in situations where you’re lookin…
November 3rd, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A couple days ago, I picked up David Marusek’s novel, Counting Heads, based on Cory Doctorow’s ecstatic review over on BoingBoing. Last night I finished it, after a week of franticly reading it in every spare second – unable to stop because on each pa…
November 1st, 2005 | by Graham | published in Google Blogger Buzz
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 …
October 31st, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
I remember the first time I read Tony Pierce’s blog because I’d only been working on Blogger for a short time, and the fact that I hadn’t heard of him was pretty bad from a first impressions standpoint.But my fellow Pyrate (Sutter) tipped me off, and t…
October 28th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
As a good number of folks have noted, the cover story of next month’s Forbes magazine features an article titled “Attack of the Blogs.”Seeing as how the article is already being picked apart by the web at large for saying things like “Web logs are the …
October 27th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
We’ve pushed some additional changes this week to make it more difficult for spam to be created using our API and other tools (this includes Hello/Picasa, Flickr, w.bloggar, ecto and many others).The downside to the API changes is that those users whos…
October 20th, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Sounds like cooking blog Chocolate & Zucchini just scored a book deal:”Life changes? Yes, indeed: today seems like the perfect day to announce that I have just signed a book deal with a NYC publisher, that I have quit my dayjob and that I now live …
October 20th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Today we are posting a revised version of the word verification system we released yesterday. With this version we have resolved a number of the problems from the initial launch – the most important of which was the inability of some users to solve th…
October 18th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
One of the ideas I mentioned yesterday was making it more difficult for would-be spammers to post. Earlier today we pushed out a change that will prompt some users to solve a CAPTCHA if our spam classifier identifies the blog as spammy.We plan to quic…
October 17th, 2005 | by goldman | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Spam is a tricky problem. Or as Matt Haughey says “spam bloggers sure are resourceful little bastards.”For a while now, the Blogger team has been contending with spam on Blog*Spot through mechanisms like Flag as Objectionable and comment/blog creation…
October 17th, 2005 | by Pete | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Jacob Nielsen has a new Alertbox column: Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes. He has some good tips and points worth considering, though issue #4 does conflict with my love of Suck-style linking.(Also, I take offense to #10. My Geocities webs…
October 13th, 2005 | by Eric | published in Google Blogger Buzz
Our friends at Photolightning just released their latest version, which incorporates some nifty Blogger functionality — it can post photos to blogs, which can then be purchased at ClubPhoto. Here’s an example blog with some Photolightning posts.