I’ve been helping friends getting their blogs setup with the new features from Blogger. Suddenly anything from the paid pro version of Blogger is free. We’re talking titles and picture uploads. I think most of the Bloggers I’ve helped are more excited about the picture uploads even though you could do it manually if you were adept at HTML and could upload a picture. Now Blogger will do it for you.
I’m more excited about the title feature, which makes Blogger almost as good as Movable Type. Almost. Still can’t have decending posts and other customized output files with Blogger. However as far as being cheap and easily setup and incorporated into your homepage, I’d recommend Blogger for the first time weblogger.
Interestingly enough, Todd hasn’t been blogging as much since he transfered from UT to FHU. He calls it being busy. Whereas his blood brother Scott seems to blog more often than in April when he first got started blogging. A casual reference as the “King of Blogging” has been used occassionally whenever someone posts frequently. Scott is fascinated with posting pictures. I’d imagine we’re going to see alot of Bluecoats pictures before it’s all over with.
Josh? Somehow if I were in Hungary I’d probably have less priority on blogging, and more priority on experiencing culture. Then again I’d probably be getting online frequently to combat homesickness by talking to friends.
Budapest is different than my experience in China. My online time in China was very limited. Dialup. Bad connection. Just enough time to send a handful of emails home and that about it. No wonder Mark never really wanted to hang around and chat much in China. However Josh appears to have a broadband connection in Budapest. He’s always connected. And much of the time, especially late afternoon for me…he’s actively online…when it’s late night in Buda.
Budapest seems like a fascinating countries. I’ve been looking at Josh’s pictures of the city and statue park. Great pictures.
And I helped Jesse with her blog. Getting her setup on UT’s servers rather than the less dependable Blogspot. She even gave me props on one of her entries.
Also I think that Blogger.com ought to filter out vulgar titled blog names on their front page. Having curse words on a front page for “Recently Updated Blogs” would probably discourage visitors from taking it seriously. Plus it just doesn’t look good for a corporation to do that.
On a less interesting note, my sister lost her domain. Her network administrator let it expire and someone else snagged it. Doh! I hate it for her. Actually I’m probably more upset about it than she was when I told her about it. There’s no getting it back anytime soon. And I feel like her website is significant enough, at least among Kindergarten teachers, that its a good thing. No wonder someone snagged it.