January 17, 2008
Three new languages and a whole new direction for Blogger
We are excited to announce that Blogger is now available in three more languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian!
Blogger in Hebrew, Arabic, and PersianSupporting these languages is a huge milestone for us because — unlike the other 37 languages Blogger is translated into — Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew are written from right to left. As you can see from the above screenshot, we had to flip the whole interface around.Besides localizing the Blogger interface into these three languages, we have right-to-left templates and have added new toolbar buttons for bi-directional text editing in the post editor.The effort was worth it, however, and we’re tremendously happy to be a part of the growing Arabic-, Hebrew-, and Persian-language blogging communities.Changing your language preferences and settingsTo see the Blogger interface in one of these languages, just use the menu on your Dashboard. You can also choose your language on Blogger’s homepage and via the “Language” link in the footer of most pages.From then on, all new blogs you create will default to using your new language choice.If you need to change the language of an existing blog, just go to Settings > Formatting and select a new language there. Your blog language affects date formatting and other blog text, and, with today’s release of Blogger, your blog’s comments form as well.Right-to-left templatesFor Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew blogs, we will also rearrange your template to read more logically from right to left. So, a blog that once looked like this:will now look like this:Please note that your template won’t change if you’ve customized it with Edit HTML; we wouldn’t dare muck with your data! Also, if you’re still using a Classic template you will have to upgrade to Layouts in order to take advantage of bidirectional language templates. Learn how.Bidirectional text editingWe’ve also added right-to-left and left-to-right buttons to Blogger’s post editor. They’ll appear if your Dashboard language or your blog’s language setting is for a right-to-left language.Clicking on these buttons will set the paragraph you are currently editing to either right-to-left or left-to-right mode. This way you can write truly bidirectional posts.Happy rtl-blogging!
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July 17, 2006
Blogger in India
It has been widely reported that Internet users across India are being blocked from accessing a number of blog hosting sites, including Blog*Spot. We are disappointed and a bit puzzled by these reports. We are also working to understand the situation, and are looking into what we can do to help resolve it. A big thanks to the many bloggers in India and elsewhere who are investigating, reporting, and working to restore access.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:43 PM links to this post
It's BlogHer time
That's right -- our friends at the homonymous BlogHer are getting ready for their second annual conference, which takes place on July 28-29 in San Jose, CA. Last year over 300 attendees learned about issues important to women bloggers, and this year the organizers are expecting double the number of people and sessions. A sampling of the second day's sessions:
7:00 - 7:45: Free Morning Yoga
Blog Crushes: Caffeine and Birds of a Feather out by the pool.
Is the Next Martha Stewart a Blogger?Passes to the second day are still available (the first sold out), and if you happen to be wondering given the conference's name...YES, gentlemen are invited too!Check out http://blogher.org/about-blogher-conference-06 for all the details.
posted by Alex V at 1:53 PM links to this post
July 16, 2006
Act break
Alex Epstein has a cool blog about screenwriting in which he gives advice, talks about what he's working on and recently tackled the most important question of our time: Why did Serenity fail to succeed in the box office?Team Blogger has much love for Serenity and ecourages you to check it out. Also, Joss Whedon? You should come to lunch at Google.
posted by Jason Goldman at 11:55 AM links to this post
July 13, 2006
Here comes the hammer
Congrats to Blogger user F-train for winning the World Poker Blogger Tour 2006 Summer Tournament this past weekend in Vegas. I've been digging on poker blog scene for a while now and was stoked to see the number of folks rocking it on Blog*Spot. Some recommendations include:
Poker Wannabe
Tao of Poker
Party Poker Blog
Sound of a Suckout
Mean GeneNice to see folks getting together IRL to play some cards.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:35 PM links to this post
July 10, 2006
New Blogger Book
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 images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can track your readership, using Blogger Mobile for mobile blogging, and how to archive your blog. For those of you who have your own Web hosting, you will learn how to publish your blog to your own server."
posted by Eric at 5:05 AM links to this post
Blogger in India
It has been widely reported that Internet users across India are being blocked from accessing a number of blog hosting sites, including Blog*Spot. We are disappointed and a bit puzzled by these reports. We are also working to understand the situation, and are looking into what we can do to help resolve it. A big thanks to the many bloggers in India and elsewhere who are investigating, reporting, and working to restore access.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:43 PM links to this post
It's BlogHer time
That's right -- our friends at the homonymous BlogHer are getting ready for their second annual conference, which takes place on July 28-29 in San Jose, CA. Last year over 300 attendees learned about issues important to women bloggers, and this year the organizers are expecting double the number of people and sessions. A sampling of the second day's sessions:
7:00 - 7:45: Free Morning Yoga
Blog Crushes: Caffeine and Birds of a Feather out by the pool.
Is the Next Martha Stewart a Blogger?Passes to the second day are still available (the first sold out), and if you happen to be wondering given the conference's name...YES, gentlemen are invited too!Check out http://blogher.org/about-blogher-conference-06 for all the details.
posted by Alex V at 1:53 PM links to this post
July 16, 2006
Act break
Alex Epstein has a cool blog about screenwriting in which he gives advice, talks about what he's working on and recently tackled the most important question of our time: Why did Serenity fail to succeed in the box office?Team Blogger has much love for Serenity and ecourages you to check it out. Also, Joss Whedon? You should come to lunch at Google.
posted by Jason Goldman at 11:55 AM links to this post
July 13, 2006
Here comes the hammer
Congrats to Blogger user F-train for winning the World Poker Blogger Tour 2006 Summer Tournament this past weekend in Vegas. I've been digging on poker blog scene for a while now and was stoked to see the number of folks rocking it on Blog*Spot. Some recommendations include:
Poker Wannabe
Tao of Poker
Party Poker Blog
Sound of a Suckout
Mean GeneNice to see folks getting together IRL to play some cards.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:35 PM links to this post
July 10, 2006
New Blogger Book
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 images and hyperlinks, and how to change the look and feel of your blog using templates. Other topics include making money using Google’s AdSense and Amazon.com’s Associates program, using photo blogging services, adding a site counter so that you can track your readership, using Blogger Mobile for mobile blogging, and how to archive your blog. For those of you who have your own Web hosting, you will learn how to publish your blog to your own server."
posted by Eric at 5:05 AM links to this post
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March 30, 2007
New Template Widgets: Newsreel and Video Bar
Thanks to our friends from the Ajax Search API team, we now have two more fun and useful widgets you can add to your new Blogger blog: Newsreel and Video Bar:The Newsreel searches Google News for your chosen keywords and displays an ever-updating list of their search results. The Video Bar does the same for Google Video and YouTube searches, and even lets you play the videos without leaving your blog! Check out Pete's mobile blog for particularly erudite examples of the Newsreel and Video Bar in action.To use the new widgets, click your blog's Layout link on your Dashboard, then click "Add a Page Element." You'll find the new widgets right at the top. As a bonus, the Newsreel will change from a list of summaries to a scrolling ticker depending on whether it's in the sidebar or the main column, so drag 'em around and see what you like.Not using the Layouts feature of the new Blogger? We have a help article that explains how to switch your classic template to Layouts.
posted by Eric at 3:30 PM links to this post
March 08, 2007
Blogger and Picasa Web Albums
Ever wanted to see all the photos you've uploaded to your blog in one place? Head over to Picasa Web Albums and now you can! We've been working closely with the Picasa team on this project - all the photos you've uploaded since December will appear in an album there, and we're working on migrating your older photos as well. (It'll take a while though - there are a lot of them.)Each of your blogs now has its own album in Picasa Web Albums, which is exciting because you now have a photo management interface for your blog's photos - for example you could order prints, use the fancy email this photo feature, or easily embed the album somewhere else on the web. Be careful when you delete photos though, because deletions will affect both your blog and its album. Lastly, Blogger photos are now part of Picasa Web Albums' 1GB of free quota, which can be upgraded.Check out Picasa and Picasa Web Albums!
posted by Eric at 5:13 PM links to this post
March 07, 2007
Blogger SXSW Party, Sunday in Austin, TX
The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival/conference/hipsterstravaganza starts this weekend! If you’re going, or just happen to be around Austin, TX for kicks or livelihood, make sure that you party with us on Sunday.
Drinks are on Blogger (also dancing)Sunday, 11 March 2007, 6–9PMClub De Ville900 Red River St.Austin, TXupcomingmapThis is an invitation only event! The only way you can get in is to find someone from Blogger beforehand and get an invitation - we'll be wearing Blogger gear. There are a ton of us hanging around the conference and we’ll be passing out the invitations wherever we go.Update: Looking for ways to get around Austin? Google Transit just launched service for Austin today. Check it totally out, and use public transportation to join SXSW in being carbon neutral.
“This is Blogger. And we party with scarves on.”
posted by Pete at 6:44 PM links to this post
March 02, 2007
An Emacs Client For Blogger
Post by T.V. Raman, Google Research ScientistFrom The Everything Can Be Done In Emacs Dept...Blogger exposes a clean API based on Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and Google Data APIs (GData). This Emacs module leverages this functionality to enable one to blog from within the comfort of a full-featured editing environment.Where to get itThe Emacs Blogger client is part of g-client, a suite of Emacs clients for accessing Google Services. The current distribution can be downloaded from Google Code and the source code is available via Subversion.Installation
Unpack the tar archive and place the resulting g-client directory on your emacs load-path.
Type make to compile the code.
In your .emacs, add (load-library "g") to set it up.Google Blogger gbloggerThis client implements posting, editing and deleting of blog entries using the new Blogger API --- it replaces the now obsolete atom-blogger that implemented similar functionality using the old Blogger API. It uses value of customization option g-user-email by default; this can be overridden via option gblogger-user-email. See Blogger GData API for the underlying APIs used. For editing posts, I recommend installing nxml-mode.
Browse command gblogger-blog brings up the list of blogs owned by the currently authenticated user.
Posting command gblogger-new-entry takes a post URL and sets up a special buffer where you can compose your article. The post url is obtained from the feed of blogs above; use the post link for the blog to which you wish to post.
Browsing command gblogger-atom-display displays the atom feed for a specified blog as a browsable HTML page. In addition to reading your blog, this helps you find the edit url for individual posts.
Editing command gblogger-edit-entry takes the edit url of a previously posted entry. It retrieves the entry, and sets up a special composition buffer where you can edit the entry.
Submitting - the special composition buffer created by commands gblogger-new-entry and gblogger-edit-entry provide a special command gblogger-publish (bound to C-c C-c) that submits the entry to blogger.
Deleting Command gblogger-delete-entry deletes an entry specified by its edit url.The emacspeak blog has further details.
posted by Eric at 11:55 AM links to this post
March 01, 2007
Blog Search Update
Attention blog searchers: if you use Google Blog Search from within Blogger, you'll notice some slight changes to its look and feel - it was just updated today to be more consistent with the Google styling, and it tested much better in the usability lab.It also means new functionality for the Blogger look 'n feel, notably the date-restrict options in the sidebar. For example, "earthquake san francisco" restricted to March 1st will tell you about the earthquake that just happened, and "snow south lake tahoe" restricted to Feb18-28 reveals some pretty excited people (myself included ;).Check it out!
posted by Eric at 9:15 PM links to this post
New Template Widgets: Newsreel and Video Bar
Thanks to our friends from the Ajax Search API team, we now have two more fun and useful widgets you can add to your new Blogger blog: Newsreel and Video Bar:The Newsreel searches Google News for your chosen keywords and displays an ever-updating list of their search results. The Video Bar does the same for Google Video and YouTube searches, and even lets you play the videos without leaving your blog! Check out Pete's mobile blog for particularly erudite examples of the Newsreel and Video Bar in action.To use the new widgets, click your blog's Layout link on your Dashboard, then click "Add a Page Element." You'll find the new widgets right at the top. As a bonus, the Newsreel will change from a list of summaries to a scrolling ticker depending on whether it's in the sidebar or the main column, so drag 'em around and see what you like.Not using the Layouts feature of the new Blogger? We have a help article that explains how to switch your classic template to Layouts.
posted by Eric at 3:30 PM links to this post
March 08, 2007
Blogger and Picasa Web Albums
Ever wanted to see all the photos you've uploaded to your blog in one place? Head over to Picasa Web Albums and now you can! We've been working closely with the Picasa team on this project - all the photos you've uploaded since December will appear in an album there, and we're working on migrating your older photos as well. (It'll take a while though - there are a lot of them.)Each of your blogs now has its own album in Picasa Web Albums, which is exciting because you now have a photo management interface for your blog's photos - for example you could order prints, use the fancy email this photo feature, or easily embed the album somewhere else on the web. Be careful when you delete photos though, because deletions will affect both your blog and its album. Lastly, Blogger photos are now part of Picasa Web Albums' 1GB of free quota, which can be upgraded.Check out Picasa and Picasa Web Albums!
posted by Eric at 5:13 PM links to this post
March 07, 2007
Blogger SXSW Party, Sunday in Austin, TX
The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival/conference/hipsterstravaganza starts this weekend! If you’re going, or just happen to be around Austin, TX for kicks or livelihood, make sure that you party with us on Sunday.
Drinks are on Blogger (also dancing)Sunday, 11 March 2007, 6–9PMClub De Ville900 Red River St.Austin, TXupcomingmapThis is an invitation only event! The only way you can get in is to find someone from Blogger beforehand and get an invitation - we'll be wearing Blogger gear. There are a ton of us hanging around the conference and we’ll be passing out the invitations wherever we go.Update: Looking for ways to get around Austin? Google Transit just launched service for Austin today. Check it totally out, and use public transportation to join SXSW in being carbon neutral.
“This is Blogger. And we party with scarves on.”
posted by Pete at 6:44 PM links to this post
March 02, 2007
An Emacs Client For Blogger
Post by T.V. Raman, Google Research ScientistFrom The Everything Can Be Done In Emacs Dept...Blogger exposes a clean API based on Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) and Google Data APIs (GData). This Emacs module leverages this functionality to enable one to blog from within the comfort of a full-featured editing environment.Where to get itThe Emacs Blogger client is part of g-client, a suite of Emacs clients for accessing Google Services. The current distribution can be downloaded from Google Code and the source code is available via Subversion.Installation
Unpack the tar archive and place the resulting g-client directory on your emacs load-path.
Type make to compile the code.
In your .emacs, add (load-library "g") to set it up.Google Blogger gbloggerThis client implements posting, editing and deleting of blog entries using the new Blogger API --- it replaces the now obsolete atom-blogger that implemented similar functionality using the old Blogger API. It uses value of customization option g-user-email by default; this can be overridden via option gblogger-user-email. See Blogger GData API for the underlying APIs used. For editing posts, I recommend installing nxml-mode.
Browse command gblogger-blog brings up the list of blogs owned by the currently authenticated user.
Posting command gblogger-new-entry takes a post URL and sets up a special buffer where you can compose your article. The post url is obtained from the feed of blogs above; use the post link for the blog to which you wish to post.
Browsing command gblogger-atom-display displays the atom feed for a specified blog as a browsable HTML page. In addition to reading your blog, this helps you find the edit url for individual posts.
Editing command gblogger-edit-entry takes the edit url of a previously posted entry. It retrieves the entry, and sets up a special composition buffer where you can edit the entry.
Submitting - the special composition buffer created by commands gblogger-new-entry and gblogger-edit-entry provide a special command gblogger-publish (bound to C-c C-c) that submits the entry to blogger.
Deleting Command gblogger-delete-entry deletes an entry specified by its edit url.The emacspeak blog has further details.
posted by Eric at 11:55 AM links to this post
March 01, 2007
Blog Search Update
Attention blog searchers: if you use Google Blog Search from within Blogger, you'll notice some slight changes to its look and feel - it was just updated today to be more consistent with the Google styling, and it tested much better in the usability lab.It also means new functionality for the Blogger look 'n feel, notably the date-restrict options in the sidebar. For example, "earthquake san francisco" restricted to March 1st will tell you about the earthquake that just happened, and "snow south lake tahoe" restricted to Feb18-28 reveals some pretty excited people (myself included ;).Check it out!
posted by Eric at 9:15 PM links to this post
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December 21, 2007
2007 Roundup
2007 has been Blogger's most amazing year yet! As you'll remember, we began it just after we had taken the new version of Blogger out of beta. Here's a quick run-down of many of the fun things we did since then:
Domain association and purchasing
Hindi transliteration
Blogger Photos in Picasa Web Albums
26 new languages
widgets: Videobar, Newsreel, Header Images, Polls, Search Box, Google Gadgets, Slideshow, Subscriptions Links
1000th Blog of Note
Old Blogger shut down, New Blogger for all, and Blogger's 8th birthday
Autosave
Profile Search
Blogger in Draft
Video Upload
Feed Enclosures and Redirects
Blogger Play
Comments: Subscribe via Email, OpenIDIf you're not using any of these on your blog, click through to the various Buzz posts and Help articles that explain them, and check them out — they're really nifty. And many thanks for sticking with Blogger through the transition to the new version earlier this year — it's a powerful and scalable platform on which we'll be building lots of exciting new features in 2008!
posted by Eric at 4:40 PM links to this post
2007 Roundup
2007 has been Blogger's most amazing year yet! As you'll remember, we began it just after we had taken the new version of Blogger out of beta. Here's a quick run-down of many of the fun things we did since then:
Domain association and purchasing
Hindi transliteration
Blogger Photos in Picasa Web Albums
26 new languages
widgets: Videobar, Newsreel, Header Images, Polls, Search Box, Google Gadgets, Slideshow, Subscriptions Links
1000th Blog of Note
Old Blogger shut down, New Blogger for all, and Blogger's 8th birthday
Autosave
Profile Search
Blogger in Draft
Video Upload
Feed Enclosures and Redirects
Blogger Play
Comments: Subscribe via Email, OpenIDIf you're not using any of these on your blog, click through to the various Buzz posts and Help articles that explain them, and check them out — they're really nifty. And many thanks for sticking with Blogger through the transition to the new version earlier this year — it's a powerful and scalable platform on which we'll be building lots of exciting new features in 2008!
posted by Eric at 4:40 PM links to this post
hamdy elhalwany
December 19, 2006
The New Version of Blogger
The new version of Blogger in beta is dead!Long live the new version of Blogger!(P.S. The old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while... maybe go to Hawaii or play World of Warcraft all day? It begs you to let it play World of Warcraft all day.)I am overjoyed to announce that today we have o’ficially graduated the new version of Blogger from “in beta” to “.” Why is this significant? Allow me to explain via analogy:
Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene : Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos :: Old Blogger : New BloggerThe new version of Blogger is metaphorically bursting with features, from the big guns like drag-and-drop template editing and post labels (which are perfect, by the way, for indexing the 131 historical figures you may have written about), to little polishes like a better-designed Dashboard or that you no longer need to solve a word verification CAPTCHA to post a comment on your own blog.We’re excited about the new version of Blogger, both for what it can do now (which also includes access control for blogs and better input fields for post dates) and what we’ll add to it in the future, now that we have a new, stable, powerful infrastructure to work with. We’re done with “beta,” but we’re far from done with the new Blogger.It’ll still take a bit more transition time to move everyone from the old version to the new, so for now we ask on our homepage which version of Blogger you use. If you’ve been using the beta, either because you switched or because you created your account after 10 November 2006, click “New Blogger” and sign in with your Google Account.If you haven’t yet switched, click “Old Blogger” and use the same Blogger account you’ve always used, or — and this is the better choice — click “Switch Now” button*. After you sign in with or sign up for a Google Account (free!), you’ll be switched over to the new Blogger, which is both reassuringly the same (your blogs will keep the same URLs, and your templates and profile will be the same too) and significantly better (see above sampling of new features and comparisons to a masterful science fiction television program).Finally, shouts out to all of the people and teams who have made this possible; the new Blogger is the combined effort of engineering, QA, support, management, product, marketing, PR, infrastructure, [music swells] design, partners, clients, users, hackers, Blog*Stars, cats, dogs, ferrets, and everyone and everything else that helped, assisted, or enabled. Thank you!* = Update, 12/20: If you don’t see the “Switch Now” button on the homepage, it’s because a ton of people are already switching to the new Blogger, and we only let so many run simultaneously in order to give everyone a good experience. Just log in to old Blogger for now, and we’ll give you a heads up on your Dashboard when we’re ready for you.
posted by Pete at 5:30 PM
The New Version of Blogger
The new version of Blogger in beta is dead!Long live the new version of Blogger!(P.S. The old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while... maybe go to Hawaii or play World of Warcraft all day? It begs you to let it play World of Warcraft all day.)I am overjoyed to announce that today we have o’ficially graduated the new version of Blogger from “in beta” to “.” Why is this significant? Allow me to explain via analogy:
Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene : Battlestar Galactica with Edward James Olmos :: Old Blogger : New BloggerThe new version of Blogger is metaphorically bursting with features, from the big guns like drag-and-drop template editing and post labels (which are perfect, by the way, for indexing the 131 historical figures you may have written about), to little polishes like a better-designed Dashboard or that you no longer need to solve a word verification CAPTCHA to post a comment on your own blog.We’re excited about the new version of Blogger, both for what it can do now (which also includes access control for blogs and better input fields for post dates) and what we’ll add to it in the future, now that we have a new, stable, powerful infrastructure to work with. We’re done with “beta,” but we’re far from done with the new Blogger.It’ll still take a bit more transition time to move everyone from the old version to the new, so for now we ask on our homepage which version of Blogger you use. If you’ve been using the beta, either because you switched or because you created your account after 10 November 2006, click “New Blogger” and sign in with your Google Account.If you haven’t yet switched, click “Old Blogger” and use the same Blogger account you’ve always used, or — and this is the better choice — click “Switch Now” button*. After you sign in with or sign up for a Google Account (free!), you’ll be switched over to the new Blogger, which is both reassuringly the same (your blogs will keep the same URLs, and your templates and profile will be the same too) and significantly better (see above sampling of new features and comparisons to a masterful science fiction television program).Finally, shouts out to all of the people and teams who have made this possible; the new Blogger is the combined effort of engineering, QA, support, management, product, marketing, PR, infrastructure, [music swells] design, partners, clients, users, hackers, Blog*Stars, cats, dogs, ferrets, and everyone and everything else that helped, assisted, or enabled. Thank you!* = Update, 12/20: If you don’t see the “Switch Now” button on the homepage, it’s because a ton of people are already switching to the new Blogger, and we only let so many run simultaneously in order to give everyone a good experience. Just log in to old Blogger for now, and we’ll give you a heads up on your Dashboard when we’re ready for you.
posted by Pete at 5:30 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2008
elgeneralmanager
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Video upload is currently not working. Our engineers are working to fix it.Update, 9:30AM: This has been fixed.
Posted by Pete at 08:42 PST
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Invitations to team blogs and private blogs are currently returning error code bX-tgu0qs. We're investigating.Update: This error code is also appearing when logging in via the comment form.Update (16:30 PST): This should mostly be fixed, though there are some lingering issues with Internet Explorer 6, which we're still working on. If that affects you, you should still be able to use these features from another browser, such as Firefox.
Posted by Graham at 10:06 PST
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Blogger is currently experiencing issues with video upload. Our engineers are working on it. Thank you for your patience.
Posted by Jessica at 17:21 PST
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Blogger is currently having trouble publishing to a number of FTP hosts. We're investigating and will update as the situation develops. Thanks for your patience.Update: This issue was fixed on 11/6 at 8:30PM PST.
Posted by Graham at 12:41 PST
Blogger will be unavailable Tuesday (11/6) at 11:00PM PST for about 10 minutes for maintenance.Update (11:10PM): The maintenance is over and lasted for about 8 minutes.
Posted by Jessica at 10:04 PST
Monday, October 29, 2007
Blogger’s video upload is currently down. Our engineers are working on the problem.Update, 7PM: Video upload has been restored to full functionality.Update, 8:15PM: After being fixed for a bit, video uploads are failing again, languishing in a “processing” state. Blogger engineers are working to resolve this.Update, 9:15PM: We have identified the root problem and resolved it. Video uploading now works as normal.
Posted by Pete at 17:08 PST
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Blogger engineers are currently investigating problems with photo uploading, which is manifesting as the “bX-9pjt6o” error code when clicking on the image upload button.Update, 9:00PM: This has been fixed. Photo uploading has resumed to normal operation.
Posted by Pete at 19:59 PST
Zoundry Updated
We just heard from Lawrence Lee of Zoundry that their Blog Writer app has been updated to support SSL and Blogger's AtomAPI. It's a Windows app for doing WYSIWYG blogging from the desktop.
posted by Eric at 9:20 PM links to this post
March 28, 2005
Evan Williams hates the elderly
Or at least that's what I took away from the NYT's piece on the evolving relationship between gossip blogs and gossip columnists. Since you can't fill 40 columns with "These are different formats doing different things" why not conjure up a new v. old media smackdown! In one corner, we have octogenarian gossip Liz Smith. In the other, the Blogs That Dish.Gone are the days when FDR used to dish dirt with Walter Winchell. Sadder still is the loss of all those fabulous hats the pro-gossips used to wear.It's all been washed away by a tide of anti-hat, anti-old-lady bloggery. Ev - how could you be so cruel.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:47 PM links to this post
March 27, 2005
Blog Attack!
If recent news is any indication, this very blog my be in danger of dinosaur attack. Is there a blog you'd like to see decimated by rampaging dinosaurs, flaming meteors, flooding water, or just a good, old-fashioned slow burn? Netdisaster can help you out with that. (via Waxy)Link
posted by Biz at 9:12 AM links to this post
March 26, 2005
Ouch
This guy shot a construction staple through his hand and now he's blogging about putting a second story on his house—by himself. Macabre? Perhaps. Good blogging? I think so.
He slides the chamber open and calls over the foreman to take a look. Turns out the gun's NOT jammed - it's empty. I shot myself with the last staple.He writes about why he started the blog but hasn't gotten to the real work yet because there seem to be so many strange and funny things to share about the existing house. The x-ray makes me wonder how this whole thing will turn out but one thing's for sure: This house needs some serious help.Link
posted by Biz at 4:59 PM links to this post
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Video upload is currently not working. Our engineers are working to fix it.Update, 9:30AM: This has been fixed.
Posted by Pete at 08:42 PST
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Invitations to team blogs and private blogs are currently returning error code bX-tgu0qs. We're investigating.Update: This error code is also appearing when logging in via the comment form.Update (16:30 PST): This should mostly be fixed, though there are some lingering issues with Internet Explorer 6, which we're still working on. If that affects you, you should still be able to use these features from another browser, such as Firefox.
Posted by Graham at 10:06 PST
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Blogger is currently experiencing issues with video upload. Our engineers are working on it. Thank you for your patience.
Posted by Jessica at 17:21 PST
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Blogger is currently having trouble publishing to a number of FTP hosts. We're investigating and will update as the situation develops. Thanks for your patience.Update: This issue was fixed on 11/6 at 8:30PM PST.
Posted by Graham at 12:41 PST
Blogger will be unavailable Tuesday (11/6) at 11:00PM PST for about 10 minutes for maintenance.Update (11:10PM): The maintenance is over and lasted for about 8 minutes.
Posted by Jessica at 10:04 PST
Monday, October 29, 2007
Blogger’s video upload is currently down. Our engineers are working on the problem.Update, 7PM: Video upload has been restored to full functionality.Update, 8:15PM: After being fixed for a bit, video uploads are failing again, languishing in a “processing” state. Blogger engineers are working to resolve this.Update, 9:15PM: We have identified the root problem and resolved it. Video uploading now works as normal.
Posted by Pete at 17:08 PST
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Blogger engineers are currently investigating problems with photo uploading, which is manifesting as the “bX-9pjt6o” error code when clicking on the image upload button.Update, 9:00PM: This has been fixed. Photo uploading has resumed to normal operation.
Posted by Pete at 19:59 PST
Zoundry Updated
We just heard from Lawrence Lee of Zoundry that their Blog Writer app has been updated to support SSL and Blogger's AtomAPI. It's a Windows app for doing WYSIWYG blogging from the desktop.
posted by Eric at 9:20 PM links to this post
March 28, 2005
Evan Williams hates the elderly
Or at least that's what I took away from the NYT's piece on the evolving relationship between gossip blogs and gossip columnists. Since you can't fill 40 columns with "These are different formats doing different things" why not conjure up a new v. old media smackdown! In one corner, we have octogenarian gossip Liz Smith. In the other, the Blogs That Dish.Gone are the days when FDR used to dish dirt with Walter Winchell. Sadder still is the loss of all those fabulous hats the pro-gossips used to wear.It's all been washed away by a tide of anti-hat, anti-old-lady bloggery. Ev - how could you be so cruel.
posted by Jason Goldman at 2:47 PM links to this post
March 27, 2005
Blog Attack!
If recent news is any indication, this very blog my be in danger of dinosaur attack. Is there a blog you'd like to see decimated by rampaging dinosaurs, flaming meteors, flooding water, or just a good, old-fashioned slow burn? Netdisaster can help you out with that. (via Waxy)Link
posted by Biz at 9:12 AM links to this post
March 26, 2005
Ouch
This guy shot a construction staple through his hand and now he's blogging about putting a second story on his house—by himself. Macabre? Perhaps. Good blogging? I think so.
He slides the chamber open and calls over the foreman to take a look. Turns out the gun's NOT jammed - it's empty. I shot myself with the last staple.He writes about why he started the blog but hasn't gotten to the real work yet because there seem to be so many strange and funny things to share about the existing house. The x-ray makes me wonder how this whole thing will turn out but one thing's for sure: This house needs some serious help.Link
posted by Biz at 4:59 PM links to this post
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