Blogger Beta

Blogger beta has been available for the past two months, but I only got around to trying it this week. The first thing I noticed was how streamlined the dashboard was compared to its earlier version. A few of the icons have been removed, and editing posts is a breeze. In fact, all post management […]

How to Gather Factual and Supporting Information for Blog Sites

Bloggers often narrate factual events rather than bookish type of posts. The entries in their blogs would usually be stressed in a freestyle manner, according to what the author really believes in. But of course, the need to have solid references and citations from phrases or even paragraphs borrowed will help make the entire entry […]

Your files, your blog and FTP

Most of of blogging newbies start out with hosted blogging services like Blogger, LiveJournal and these days, WordPress.com. Those blogging services make it easy for newbies to get into writing, posting pictures and other kinds of files rather easily. However, when you start having your own webspace and your own installation of a blogging software […]

Burning RSS Feeds the FeedBurner Way

If you have a Web site, blog, audio/video content or even photos, you can offer a feed of your content as an option. If you are using a popular blogging platform or publishing tool like TypePad, WordPress or Blogger, you likely publish a feed automatically. Even other, non-blogging sites like social photo-sharing service Flickr offer […]

WordPress Installation Tip: Slipstreaming

Avid WordPress users and pro-bloggers using the popular open-source CMS (most popular, arguably) would probably agree with me that setting up WordPress is very easy, with its famous five-minute install (usually even less, actually). But factor in the likelihood that you’ll be installing new themes, customizations, and several plugins, and these five minutes quickly turn […]

Blogger Blogsearch – Powered by Google

Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you’re looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, […]