tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58041582012-02-16T01:36:04.281-06:00The blog for bloggers. Support, help, and tips --from Blogger Forum.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755104120872160482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804158.post-58565430240128534672006-12-26T11:39:00.000-06:002006-12-26T12:03:56.428-06:00

Most blogs that I see are not remotely spider friendly. By that I mean the search engine spiders have to wade through a good bit of html only to find there isn't much there but the posts. Each and every blogger has to view their blog the way the spiders do, and then fine-tune things to be not only spider friendly, but also to spoon-feed the spiders what you want them to eat. How do we do that?

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Possibly. We're strongly considering going back to the original blog platform.On the other hand:"But things don't appear to have gone entirely smoothly. According to some Blogger readers, the software exited beta in the manner of an egg nog-filled guest leaving a Christmas party." --CnetStay tuned. It's the war of the blog platforms. We may just run Blogger and WordPress side-by-side so everyone

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Here is one of our favorite posts from the Blogger Blog archives-Simon Waldman has a quiet little British blog he calls Word of Waldman. Recently, as he was going through some old magazines from the 1930's, he ran across an article in Homes and Gardens about Hitler and what a nice chap he was. It occurred to Simon that this would be a good blog subject. That is, how public perceptions are created

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Blogger Blog, which is Blogger Forum's offical blog, can now be viewed at www.bloggerblog.com or www.bloggerforum.com.

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Test of post with Word Blogger now has an add-in for Microsoft Word to allow Blogging to Blogger without leaving Word. I assume you can add color, links and other Word formatting.

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Technorati stats are showing that the number of blogs posted are doubling.Posting volume has doubled this year alone - between January and August, in part due to the growing number of mainstream blogging tools such as MSN Spaces, AOL Journals, Blogger, and LiveJournal. At the end of July, about 37,500 posts were being created every hour.Posting volume is likely a better measure of blog activity

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BlogPulse has updated its site to include more updated blog data.BlogPulse now ranks the top blogs, blog posts, news sources, and news stories daily. "With this new edition of BlogPulse, marketers and bloggers can gain a much deeper understanding of how key bloggers are shaping, catalyzing, and influencing broader perceptions about brands, products, services and everyday issues," said Intelliseek

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Several times a year Google goes through some major tinkering with the algorithms it uses to rank Web sites. These major changes are different from the close to monthly changes you will see in positioning of sites. Around a year ago there was a very major change that dropped most sites by at least one notch. That is, from 6 to 5 --or whatever. The most recent change was almost as dramatic.In the

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Some pretty good tips on using AdSense in your blog come from SelfSEO, like this:Internet users are "trained" to look in certain locations and ignore things that are outside of thier narrow scope of vision. People can look to the sides for information, but the propensity for them to click your ads becomes significantly lower. By putting ads directly "in thier face", you have a greater chance they

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Search engines help you find sites based on relevance to your search topic. For example, if you search on "Blogger Forum" (without the parentheses) you get a linear list of results based on the sites' importance.Now, suppose that instead of a linear result you could get a 3-dimensional result. Suppose further that instead of a return based on a site's importance in relation to your search topic,

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Now that Google has opened AdSense to a larger base (bloggers), there seems to be more reports of Google dropping people from the AdSense program for alleged abuse.A typical email from Google goes like this:Hello xxxx,It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generatedon the ads on your web pages. We have therefore disabled your GoogleAdSense account. Please understand that this

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Now that Yahoo has it's own blogging feature (Yahoo 360), the company has come out with official guidelines for it's employees who choose to blog. Company guidelines are essential since so many bloggers have been fired or otherwise disciplined without any warning in advance as to company policy on the issue.In essence, the policy states that no employee may blog about any company issue unless the

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Fredrik Wacka sums up what all of us have been talking about for about two years (since Google took over Blogger). His open-letter to Google starts out with a statement we have heard over and over again here at Blogger Forum: "I have tried to find ways to switch from Blogger to another publishing system, but there are problems I'd like to avoid. So I figured I could try influencing you to improve

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Blogger has been quiet for quite some time on what will be next in the Blogger.com world. With the persistent problems in performance, Blogger users would first like to be assured that more effort is being put into developing a more stable and reliable base product.However, there is talk about other enhancements in the development or "We're thinking about it" stage.Here are some ideas that

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One of the busiest guys around and an expert at self-promotion is Phil Town. Phil is a motivational speaker and has a new book coming out on investing for the small investor.Getting a book published is expensive and takes a good bit of time to get up and running. A blog, on the other hand, can be up and running in a day. Then it is just a matter of having something to say.Phil apparently never

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Our own sample blog on Bloggerforum has always been on the Blogger.com platform. However, there are certainly many other platforms out there to choose from. So, how do you make a decision as to the best blog platform to trust your scribblings to?Obviously you want something dependable, easy to use, and nice-looking. Oh, yes, also with all the bells and whistles chronically lacking with

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Blogger Jim Hill has been blogging about Disney for years at www.jimhillmedia.com. Although Disney is his favorite subject, Mickey and his friends probably were not terribly happy with everything Jim had to say about the Disney corporate world on his site. Things got a bit nasty when Jim blogged on the the well-known dispute over management:Hill butted heads with the multimedia giant once before,

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One of the best and most overlooked blogging platforms out there was upgraded on April 15.Finally, after about 8 months of hard development and 6 beta releases the Serendipity Team is proud to finally release version 0.8 of Serendipity.Many new and important features have been introduced, the core code has been made much more flexible, our code is polished up and many bugs and security issues

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Politically correct, that is.Do you have an obligation to make your blog accessible to the handicapped? What if a blind person wants to read your blog. Do you have a way to reasonably accommodate your blind readers? It isn't as far-fetched as you might think. Southwest Airlines has already been sued because they have not made their Website accessible to the blind.This isn't the first lawsuit

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Despite some claims that searching on "blogger sucks" (with the quote marks) will get 700,000 hits, the point is still well taken. The fact that Blogger is getting so much bad press should prompt the Blogger/Google folks to take some action.It's getting a little nasty out there.In a post called "Blogger Stinks," Ryan McReynolds, who shares his views on life, God, intimacy, politics and media

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There is apparently an email campaign going on to infect your computer with a new virus.The legitimate looking email seems to come from Microsoft and invites the reader to go to the Microsoft update site to get access to the latest security updates. The site seems to be a good copy of Microsoft's Web site and lures the visitor into downloading a Windows security patch.But should unsuspecting

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Google announced recently that the one gigabyte storage limit for Gmail will be increased to two gigabytes.Of course, the big question is "When is Gmail going to be public?"Makes you wonder why they keep improving the service, but make people beg to get invitations to use the service. Wouldn't it make more sense to move out of the "beta" stage before doubling the storage? Google will not discuss

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There is an interesting (and long) article on blogging via Corante. The article is by Suw Charman and basically is what she brought home from the Blogs in Action seminar put on by the Six-Apart folks. One of the seminar speakers was lawyer David Carr who had this to say about libel:In 97, someone pretending to be one Dr Godfrey posted to a Usenet group and said lots of horrible things about him,

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Yahoo announced a beta version of its new blog service called Yahoo 360. The release will be by invitation only at first until some testing is done.There was talk about this back when Microsoft released MSN Spaces. Spaces, as you may recall, got some big publicity at release time and then faded into obscurity. I'm not sure how Spaces is doing these days. One problem with Spaces is that it has a "

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Here's one of the fascinating aspects of blogging: seeing "unofficial" opinions of the world from new viewpoints.For example, the view of Iran from Venezuela.VCRISIS, with the tagline "Venezuelan News and Analysis, has a recent blog about the visit to Venezuela by Iranian President Khatami. Outside Venezuela, people might wonder why Iran's decision to go forward with it's nuclear capability is

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I suppose this had to happen, the University of California at Berkeley is supposedly offering a graduate course in blogging. The course would be part of the school's college of journalism.Is blogging a form of journalism, a form of self-satisfied egotistic key-tapping, or some mix? Judge for yourself and take a look at Sales Master World for one take on this and then at ktheory for a blogger's

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Time for a little history lesson on blogging in general and Movable Type in particular. After all, most of what we take for granted with blogging can be traced to Mena and Ben Trott, owners of Six-Apart, LTD. Just a few short years ago, when both were 20 years old, Mena got into blogging while Ben followed not as a blogger, but as the programmer of the family. Today, after their acquisition of

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This probably wouldn't surprise anyone who blogs, but The Merriam-Webster Online Web site named “blog” its No. 1 word for 2004, based on the number of people looking it up.“Blog, noun – short for weblog (1999): a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.”The explosive growth of blogging has led to an equally explosive

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But this time, can you guess what corporate employer fired their blogging employee? None other than Google, owner of Blogger. That's right folks, Blogger has fired a Blogger employee for blogging because they didn't like what he was blogging about. Something or other about not being especially happy with Google's renumeration package. Whatever. As pointed out by Suw Charman, Google/Blogger

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For you folks with WordPress and all the other blogs based on PHP and MySQL, here's something new to worry about. A virus called MySQL bot or SpoolCLL (the name of it's executable file) is reported to have infected around 8,000 computers so far. The worm takes advantage of the administrator's use of weak passwords by making a brute force attack with a list of common passwords. If a password

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WebProNews has an interesting article on driving traffic to your blog. The title is Three Overlooked Ways to Get Hundreds of Links and Prospects to Your Blog. OK, I admit the title is a bit over-blown. I suspect the title is geared more towards the search engines than the readers. That is probably a lesson in itself. The first overlooked way is commenting. I don't think this area is really that

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If you aren't familiar with Picasa, it is one of those programs you have to see and use to be able to appreciate. Google, the owner of Picasa, has released version 2 of the program. As before, Picasa is totally free and can revolutionize the way you organize and manipulate photos on your computer. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.

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Well, it finally has happened in Britain: a disgruntled employee with a blog is fired for speaking his mind. Funny thing is, his job was selling other people's opinions in funny little things called "books". Another funny thing, probably nobody knew about the blog until he was fired. Now Joe Gordon and his employer, Waterstone's, both have an international degree of fame they did not have

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Here's an interesting question: now that blogs have gained some degree of influence, will we now start to see "black-blog ops" in the blogosphere? That is, deliberate disinformation from influential blogs. It could be just a matter of time before some of the old-time bloggers start getting offered big bucks to take a particular side or slant a particular story. Or newer "mole" blogs that report

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I don't know why blogging should be any different than other businesses, but you just don't expect the kind of consolidation in the blog world that we have seen in the last year. It wasn't that long ago that Google bought Blogger from Pyra Labs. The latest move by a big player is the coming purchase of LiveJournal by Six Apart. LiveJournal is one of the original big blogging platforms and has a

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The Motley Fool added a blog discussion board to its site. There is also an interesting article on Motley Fool about whether blogs are blooming or not. According to the article, 62% of the population has never even heard of blogs or blogging.

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The latest issue of PC Magazine has named the founders of Blogger (Evan Williams, Meg Hourihan, and Paul Bausch) together with the founders of Six Apart (Mena G. Trott and Ben Trott) as People of the Year. Although blogs have been around for awhile, PC Mag sees them as now being accepted into the mainstream: Select bloggers were allowed the same access as traditional journalists at both the

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Interesting review of MSN Spaces at Blogger Herald: Rank: .5/10 "Whilst some are saying that Microsoft will help grow the market, which is possible, this service will do little to provide the current and future bloggers with anything other mass produced, standardised rubbish..." And from Joe Blade: "So, MSN Spaces. They're not ugly -- not Netscape ugly -- but they all look basically the same.

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Comment spamming, which is an epidemic problem with WordPress blogs, has gotten to be a major issue with Movable Type as well. Since inbound links are supposed to increase a site's popularity, some low-lifes have discovered that if they flood blog site commenting with hundreds of links, their own popularity rises. Online gambling sites are especially guilty of this tactic. It has gotten so bad

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How cool is this? You start to type in a search term in the Google search window and a list of suggestions appears in a drop-down as you type. Next to each suggested site is the total hits for that site. As you type more, the list becomes more specific to your search words. This is the new Google Suggest Beta. From their FAQ: "That's pretty cool. How does it do that? Our algorithms use a wide

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Here's something we get asked pretty frequently: how can I post audio and/or video in my blogs? Userplane has announce a free service for creating audio and video for blogs called AVBlogger. "...the AV Blogger service automatically detects the presence of a webcam and microphone, making it easy for even non-technical users to create recordings of up to 10 minutes in length. The service displays

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Microsoft is scheduled to unveil MSN Spaces as early as this week. Spaces is geared to compete directly with Google's Blogger blog platform and BlogSpot blog hosting. Spaces has been up and running in a beta version in Japan since August. (Japan Spaces) Some industry watchers have said they consider Microsoft's move into blogging as a counteroffensive against MSN archrival Google. In 2003,

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Blogger Forum - Blogging help, tips, Blogger support, and blog forum: "I still have a few Gmail invites left" This is a test of Blogit

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Blogging gets more into the mainstream with today's first blog on Pogue's Posts. You can't get more mainstream than the New York Times, where the blog will reside with daily updates. From the inaugural post: I plan to use this space to answer reader questions, follow up on the other columns, flag emerging tech news issues, point out hilarious or important developments on the Web, share cool tips

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Feedster has introduced a blog-only search page as part of its site. Blog Search has come to Feedster. Now you can easily search across ONLY blogs and exclude results from official news sources. Some searches we tried with topics and key words published in our own Blogger Blog did not show up in the search results. Try it yourself for key words that are fairly specific to your blog and see if

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Here is a must-have bit of software: Keyhole. Google bought the company on October 27 and offers a free trial download. With Keyhole, you can zip around the earth with 3D terrain and the best mapping I've ever seen. Just enter your own street address and zoom in on your backyard. You may even catch yourself mowing the lawn! Enter a different address across the country or world and watch Keyhole

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Problems, problems. Seen around the Web the last couple of days: "I can't seem to get into Blogger today, all I get is an error message saying site not found. Is anyone else having this problem? Or is it just me?" "OK. It now looks as though my dissapearing post may be more serious. For the first time i cannot get to any Blogger or blogspot page. None of my favorite blogspot blogs are working

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There is an interesting article by Dean Phillips I ran across that has a contrarian view on search engine optimizing. Or, as the author would probably say, search engine pandering. In the author's view, Google is a trap ("Why are so many people falling into the trap of optimizing their website's to cater to Google's ever- changing algorithms?"), Dmoz naps ("I've heard and read countless horror

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Or, to get rid of the alphabet soup jargon, can Cascading Style Sheets be used to benefit Search Engine Optimization? The answer is yes. We all know, or should know, that CSS is very beneficial for design and maintenance of a blog site. Taken a step further, CSS can also be used to fine-tune a page to be more spider friendly. In other words, a page that is designed to be indexed to maximize key

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The importance of browsers to bloggers should be pretty obvious. Not only do you use your browser to create and maintain your blog, you also have to take into account what browsers your users might be using. I think we're all familiar with the problems with standards compliance that Internet Explorer exhibits. Has anyone thought about why this has come to pass? Why has Microsoft allowed IE to

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It is interesting that Google is reported to have acquired the domain name Gbrowser.com. If you do a search on the name, you find that it is reserved. Now why would they do that? A news story in the New York Post said that four people who worked on Microsoft's Web browser have recently been recruited to work at Google. However, Google declined to comment on the online reports and said it had

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One of the most famous and interesting blogs has been Belle de Jour. Belle announced today that she was quitting the world of blogging. Doors have opened and I'd like to see where they go. Other doors close, but as my mother said when I was 10 and tennis conflicted with piano on Thursday afternoons, you can't do everything you want to do. So my plans to be elected to Parliament, win a Nobel

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Jessica Cutler, who did so well as the blogger behind some juicy Washington escapades, is now posing nude in Playboy. Jessica, you may remember, was an aid to Senator Mike DeWine and was fired by the Senator over revelations in Jessica's blog about "sleeping around" with Washington big-shots. The Playboy spread is called "Wild in Washington" and appears in Playboy Online, not the magazine:

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Here's an interesting idea: utilize Gmail and it's gigabyte of storage as a blog platform. Some open-source software named Gallina can supposedly do this. Gallina uses Gmail messages as blog entries, and the email service's message star to signify the publish status. Email replies to conversations are posted as comments to an entry. Because Gmail provides 1GB of email storage space for free,

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Whether you're a complete newbie or have been blogging for years, good advice is always good advice. One such bit of good advice was posted on Busblog in June and contains some good tips you don't always see in the usual places. This is probably the case because much of the advice is a bit unorthodox. Some examples from 30 good tips (I especially like #14): 11. say exactly what you want to say

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Never mind free speech, if the boss doesn't like something you have to say in your blog, you could end up jobless. Joyce Park works (worked) for Friendster as a programmer. Her specific job was to speed up the site by switching some key site components from JavaScript to PHP. She made the very bad mistake, apparently, of stating in passing in reply to a question about her PHP operations that the

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If you have ever looked at your Blogger template, you may have seen something like this above the HEAD statement: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" The doctype element is usually the first line of any template and gives some specific instructions to the browser on how some things should be treated. On a very basic level, the doctype element tells the browser what

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What are Metro Blogs, anyway? "We're kind of that friend of yours that always knows what's happening in the city," said Jen Chung, editor-in-chief of the New York-based blog Gothamist.com, where she encouraged theatergoers this week to get out and see New York International Fringe Festival theater, passing along that "we hear that this is the first year that all the venues are air-conditioned --

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The nature of blogging is such that is had to be inevitable: dating sites have discovered the appeal of blogging. It is so absolutely easy for an online dating service to host and integrate blogging that I'm surprised it hasn't been done more often. Blogging is a fun way to interact with a site. Blogs, by their nature, tend to raise the rankings of sites. Take a look at the way eTwine.com has

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There is an interesting thread going on at Outfront on the subject of Page Rank. Specifically, what goes into calculating not only rank, but how rank should be looked at as only part of the equation in determining how a site is treated by Google and some of the other engines. Here is an excerpt from one post in the thread: ... you have on-page optimization factors and off-page optimization

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Suppose you purchased a domain name in 1996 for your personal use called Katie.com. Suppose further that someone wrote a book based on the life of a girl name Katie who was molested: The book, "Katie.com," chronicled the plight of Katherine Tarbox, a 13-year-old from Connecticut who struck up an online relationship with a man she believed was 23. He turned out to be a 40-year-old registered sex

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There is something seriously wrong with Google's approach to page rank. This is especially true when it comes to blogs. Consider this search phrase: "Blogging Tips." The number 2 return (just before Blogger Forum) is a site called "Blogging Tips" located on BlogSpot. Take a look at the site before we continue. Ready? Now, what have you noticed about the site? Right, it is a blog. Now, what

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Picture this: you send your best friend a picture from your weekend trip to the beach. Along with the picture, you lament that you would rather have been on a date. You and your friend both get served a Google AdSense ad for a Web dating service. People have been asking "Why is Google paying big bucks for Picasa and then giving away the software for free?" Put Picasa together with Hello which

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You can't have too many tips when it comes to blogging. One good source is an article at NetGuideWeb which is pretty successful at compiling tips from various blog authors into one place. Here's one of my favorites:   "In a personal blog, there needs to be something that sets it apart from others in its class. It might be that it's particularly useful -shares inside-track knowledge, provides

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Keep in mind that Google is in a forced "quiet" period pending the public offering of Google stock. That is why you may not have heard too much about the recent purchase of Picasa by Google.   If you don't know anything about Picasa, just think management and manipulation of digital photographs.   Immediate speculation raised the idea Google would go beyond radio and TV clips and enter the

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There is a very interesting thread at Thomas Brunt's Outfront on site design. Frontpage? Javascript? Frames? Some good information on what to include and what to avoid on your site.

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It happens to all of us. The old feeling that writing that blog has become a chore rather than fun. One or two days go by without blogging and you feel a sense of obligation to get something posted. I coined a word a couple of years ago for this (I think I was the first, anyway): the "Blahgs". One long time blogger (Counterspin Central) quit entirely on June 10. Markos Juniga writes the Daily

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Originally put together in 1996 and updated in 1999, the "Top Ten Mistakes" is still good advice for bloggers and Webmasters today. Well worth the read. Here's one snippit that some bloggers should pay heed to: "It is as hard as ever to read scrolling text, but aggressive use of distracting animation now causes even more problems than in 1996: users have started equating such designs with

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Why is it that the mainstream media continues to miss the point of blogging entirely? For some reason the "journalists" are under the impression that blogging is reporting and, as such, all blogs should consist of balanced reporting. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are some very good points made in this regard on the Captain's Quarters: "No one expects blogs to be balanced and

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With all the thousands of people hot to get Gmail invitations, it was nice to see that one of my favorite people got an invitation through Blogger Forum's Gmail exchange link. Michelle Malkin, who is one of the best syndicated editorialists in the country, noted in her blog that she received a Gmail invitation courtesy of SpaceMonkey. Michelle noted that she had no idea the invitations were such

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Nothing is more annoying than having your email accounts flooded with spam. Studies have shown that a large portion of spam comes from spam-bots that surf the Web looking for usable email addresses. So, if you have joe@gmail.com on your site, you can bet that within days your Gmail account will start being flooded with spam. There are ways to avoid this. One is to use a utility that scrambles

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Dave Winer, back when he created Userland, also created a free hosting site for blogs on his own servers. He called the free hosting site Weblogs.com which hosted about 3,000 blogs. Yesterday, Dave pulled the plug on Weblogs.com citing the amount of work he was expected to do for free and health problems. Still, users were very upset to find their blogs gone with no prior warning. ...bloggers

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Here's a fun thing from Flooble: a utility that creates a random blog for you. Don't feel like blogging today? Got blogger's block? Just go to this site and have it create a blog for you. Here's one that was randomly generated for us: I honestly hate my uncle The Boz. On weekends he is a little demented, and yesterday he just intrigued me... I needed his years of training talking to someone

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It has been reported to us that some of the Gmail sales on eBay may be less than legitimate. According to one poster on the Blogger Forum, he purchased what he thought was a Gmail invitation and all he got was a link to us here on the Gmail Exchange forum. Not a very good purchase since probably only about 10% of the requests for Gmail can be filled. Some people will do anything for a buck.

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Blogger stirred up quite a controversy when it decided to support only Atom for new Blogger users. That left quite a few people upset and unable to syndicate the more popular RSS. Politics, ego and quite a few non-technical reasons were seen across the blogosphere as the real push for Atom versus RSS. Now, in what might perhaps be a change of heart, Blogger's owner Google seems to be

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Early Gmail users now have an new "Invite a friend to join Gmail" link on their gmail accounts. Gmail is now accepting a new wave of members and this is a pretty logical way to get it done while Gmail is still in Beta. If you have a Gmail account, please take advantage of this offer and let some other folks in. The Gmail exchange thread at Blogger Forum would be a good way to distribute your

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There are many utilities and sites to help you focus on your search engine ranking. One such site is Top25Web which has a handy script to test your ranking in Google by search phrase or term. Here's how it works: You enter a search phrase that you want to establish as highly ranked for your site. Let's say, for example, that your site or blog focuses on wine from the Napa Valley. Obviously you

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I guess a case could be made for the idea that nearly all personal blogs are dull. In other words, about as interesting as talking to somebody in the grocery line. You're never going to see them again so who cares what they have to say. This gets back again to what we call the "Cheese Sandwich" blogs. This term was coined in response to a particular personal blog that was so boring it actually

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This had to happen. Google up the search terms "waffles" and guess what you get? John Kerry's campaign site. They did it to Bush, now Kerry is finding out what it's like to be the recipient of some Google bombing. In case you've been on another planet for the last six months, "Google bombing" is the technique of manipulating Google to return a particular site in response to searching on an

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I've been waiting for an in-depth interview with one of the Blogger-meisters to come out. Finally, Evan Williams and Steve Gillmore do a multi-page "conversation" about the New Blogger in the latest edition of eWeek. Many of the questions we see here in the Blogger Forums get answered. The "why" and "where is this going" get addressed --for the most part. Some samples: On the New Blogger in

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Ouch, didn't see this coming. The new version of Movable Type (3.0) that was just released is not free. Well, not exactly. There is still a "free" version if you look carefully. If you look at the MT price list, a personal license for the product starts at $69.95 (intro price, regularly $99.95). That is a license for a maximum of 3 authors and 5 blogs. A commercial license starts at an intro

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Reviews of the "New" Blogger are starting to come in. I've started thinking of Blogger as "New Blogger" in the sense that Coke came out with "New Coke" at one time. It was a complete failure where New Blogger should do well. One of the best (although short) new reviews I've seen is by Sushubh Mittal. He was a former Blogger who left for WordPress not too long after Google took over. He likes the

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Here's some basic stuff from the National Association of Convenience Stores Web site article on blogging called Blog, Blog Blog: "A blog, or online diary, can be defined as "an online diary that relates personal facts and stories, political opinions or anything else that the writer wants to convey," according to Laurie Brown, a faculty member of the Multimedia and Web Design Department of The

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The latest version of Opera --version 7.5, supports newsfeeds in RSS format. The free download is the first version of the Opera Web browser to offer easy RSS viewing. Setting up is easy. You go to the "Mail" tab and then "Newsfeeds" to choose or create the newsfeeds you want to monitor. Once you have the feeds you want, you only have to go to your mail tab and then choose which newsfeeds you

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If you aren't satisfied with the look of your comments in Blogger, it is very easy to change with a little CSS. If you look at your template, you will notice that the actual comment that is displayed when someone clicks on the "Comments" link is controlled by this statement: div-class="blogComments". If you want to change the standard look of your comments, simply add a formatting statement to

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Here's something I've never understood: why has there been no official Google Blog? I mean, a large cutting-edge company like Google purchases Blogger so they have a foot (a leg, actually) in the blogging door. Then, something like a year later, Google has no blog to call it's own. That has now changed. Google Blog has just been launched to go along with the new Blogger roll-out. "Insight into

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It appears that the more heavily customized your existing template is, the more likely you will run into archiving problems. Here is one cure: overwrite the archive line in your template with some stock archive language from one of the new Blogger templates. For example: posted by [$BlogItemAuthorNickname$] @ [a href="[$BlogItemPermalinkUrl$]" title="permanent link"][$BlogItemDateTime$][/a]

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I'm seeing a lot of talk around the Blogosphere about archiving problems with the new Blogger. On this site, all archive links are double posted for some reason. This, of course leads to 404 file not found errors. So, is this something that can be fixed by fine-tuning settings and re-publishing the entire site? Not so far. Stay tuned.

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If you're a Blogger user, you will have noticed some big changes in Blogger. Not only is the interface entirely new (and good, by the way), but some of the features users have been screaming about for years have finally been added. Just to name three biggies: Commenting. Yep, you read it right. Blogger finally includes built-in commenting. Email. Being able to post to your blog by email was

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For some time now, google has had a beta version of it's personalized searching available. It works like this: You select topics that are of interest to you to create your own personal profile. Once your profile is created, you search on a word or phrase and move the personalization bar to skew the results more and more towards your areas of interest. Example: suppose you are interested in law

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EDIT: This is a new, empty post that the new Blogger created at random. Weird and interesting.

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Search Engine Journal has a good article on the Google IPO from the viewpoint of "selling out" the Google supposed core values and the future for Google. From the Google Owners Manual: “Now the time has come for the company to move to public ownership. This change will bring important benefits for our employees, for our present and future shareholders, for our customers, and most of all for

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For those of you with Gmail, you have probably noticed that there is a "Invite a Friend" link on the left side of your screen that allows you to send invitations to two people to get Gmail. These are the invitations some are selling on eBay for around $40 each. If you don't have Gmail and want it, see if you can talk a Blogger user into sending you one of theirs. For those who still have

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Didn't get a Gmail invitation? Never fear, you can go to eBay and find Gmail invitations going for around $40.00. How's this for a good sales pitch: "I can't promise you anything, but I got the exact name I wanted and so did my brother. Mine is just, myfullname@gmail.com. And my name is pretty common...no more need for silly numbers etc! When gmail comes out it's going to be huge, I honestly

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755104120872160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804158.post-1083367943334445422004-04-30T18:32:00.000-05:002004-04-30T18:35:30.700-05:00

Well, what do you know? The prediction that Google would come out with it's IPO disclosures by April 30 turned out to be correct. Now the question is how will the sale take place? Forbes seems to think the price will be too high" "The frenzy, however, creates a real possibility that investors will overpay for Google shares, though the company is profitable and might have years of growth to come

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Say, what is a b-blog, anyway? I may have just made that up, but I'm simply talking about business blogs. Rich Ottum has an interesting piece on WebProNews about how "business weblogs are not rocket science." Yep, it's true. Business blogs are subject to the same common-sense rules that apply to all blogging. Past the fundamentals, you get into some real differences. The basic difference being

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755104120872160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804158.post-1082940167825523102004-04-25T19:42:00.000-05:002004-04-25T19:45:50.983-05:00

A few months ago, you couldn't go anywhere on the Internet without running into speculation about the Google IPO. Google, which is a private company, was to score billions in a public offering --somewhere between $8 and $25 billion, depending on who you wanted to believe. Google managed to play all this very close to it's non-corporate vest. So, what's happening now? Some new speculation has it

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755104120872160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804158.post-10827504005290312004-04-23T15:00:00.000-05:002004-04-23T15:04:37.920-05:00

What happens when you get carried away with using toolbars on your browser? pc4media tried it out and got this result: As you can see, it is possible to get carried away with toolbars. As pointed out, most toolbars tend to be "Me-Too" things without much to recommend them.

Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06755104120872160482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804158.post-108267461958607022004-04-22T17:56:00.000-05:002004-04-22T17:59:58.450-05:00

Sometimes you have to go to extremes to find really cool and/or funny things. Sometimes they're right under your nose. Rachel of Rachel and the City is a frequent visitor here at Blogger Forum, but we had no idea about the woman inside the woman. Allow me to explain. Rachel posts that she has decided to take out a personal ad rather than to continue to whine about coming up short in the dating

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Nice little touch for Blogger users: Google is making the beta version of Gmail available for users of Blogger. If you didn't get an email about this from Blogger, then look at your Blogger main page for an invitation. There should be an invitation if you're a registered Blogger user: "As an active Blogger user, we would like to invite you to be one of the first to try out Google's new email

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