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Turns out I check Blogger about once a year. It might be because Google still hasn't made it easy to create posts on-the-go, like other sites have. Sure, there's more control here over the final product, but getting there is much more difficult on a phone or other mobile device. Mastodon has been where I typically "mobile blog" as its quick and easy to get a post typed out and on the interwebz. 

I'm fairly certain Google hasn't touched this app/service since before I stopped using it regularly (if I ever did - it's really not good for mobile quick blogging like Google+ was). However, there still doesn't seem to be a good open alternative. Many are closed gardens or they're just not in line with my needs... or, they're a Facebook property and due to Facebok, er, Meta sucking, I won't use their services. I won't even have them on my devices.  Anywho, this is the first post to Blogger from my new Android and it's working fairly smoothly, even if it's not convenient. I really would like a quick-post widget or the ability to share a photo from Photos rather than having to come to Blogger and find the photo to share. 

Just changed the image upload setting to "smaller" than originally set in the hopes that blogger will actually upload images for me. ... it's not. In fact, one of the images not showing is one shared to Blogger and the other is one brought in from within this post. Neither are showing as posting. At least not on drafts. I wonder what happens if you try to take a photo from within the Blogger app. I don't think I've tried that in a while, but then again, I don't think Blogger has updated the app in a while either. Update: So, image sharing on the go is not happening in Blogger, but if I use the camera app from within the Blogger app and take a photo it appears to work. So, no edited images or sharing images from the device or the gallery on the go it seems.

This was a test to determine if Google out any effort whatsoever into this Blogger app. And the answer is ... no . I'd hoped to start blogging again but without autofill links (think every other social media site where a preview of articles pops in once the URL is posted) or image posting, what's really the point?

The Blogger mobile app is atrocious. Just a few moments ago I tried to create a post with a photo from my mobile device (Android) and the photo wouldn't attach to the post. This prevented the post from, well, posting.

Like most days these days I came to the library to spend some time before I'm forced back out into the cold with nowhere to go. Some coffee shops don't stay open that late and some do. It's a matter of finding the right one in an area that has ample hobo camping opportunities. So, for example, where I shower and change in the mornings - my gym - doesn't have a coffee shop nearby at all. One must drive miles to get to one and it closes at 9PM. No later than the library. And, since the library has more seats and is usually more comfortable, I go to the library most nights. This afternoon I came to the library and immediately saw on the whiteboard near the front door a listing for a WordPress beginners class for this evening. I registered for the class and then spent the next couple of hours literally watching videos on my laptop. Being homeless means I don't sleep well and not sleeping well means I'm tired throughout the day and being tired throughout the day me...

If you haven't heard, Google is shuttering the quaisi-popular service: Google+. They gave a flimsy excuse and a deadline for everyone to get off-board and go find a new online home. Most people, like myself, have been trying out other options: MeWe , Cake.co , Diaspora/Pluspora , Minds as well as others. I thought I might spend more time Blogger'ing and so attempted a few posts from the Blogger app as the real appeal to G+, aside from the social aspect, was the easy by which one could post on the go. So, I turned to the Blogger app, which hasn't seen any developer love from Google since 2016. That's two years for those of you paying attention to such things. Here's what I've learned: The Blogger app needs some developer love. One cannot post pictures using the Blogger app. Either from the cloud (Photos) or from the Android. In fact, even attempting to do so will crash the app for some ungodly reason and prevent the draft post from saving to Blogger. Dr...

Does this thing work?

This is a first test to see if i can post to Blogger from email.

Oh, come on, Google! This has got to be one of the most annoying websites ever.  Let me explain: We all have that (annoying) red bar at the top of our pages. Saddled between the "SEARCH" bar and our account profile pic are the 9 squares set in a 3x3 formation. Clicking this box opens up shortcuts to Google services. Easy peasy, right? Sure. Unless you're looking for something not there. So, you scroll down and click on "Even more from Google" which opens up the page linked to below.  Great! Right? Well, no.  You find the product you're looking for and instead of clicking on it, thinking it's going to take you to the associated page, you have to know to use the "Getting Started" link below the associated service, then choose for web , for mobile , etc. Click on "Getting Started" And worse yet, not even all products are listed! Where's  +Blogger ? Or Google Voice? Under "Stay in touch" ...

For the past couple of years I've been using  +Blogger 's Dynamic Views. They were clean, simple and for those of us without a hint of coding skill, easy to use. I mean, what the hell, it's a personal blog, right? No one really cares about what it looks like, they care about content. Or, at least that's how I look at things. Content is king. Here's a Flower I'd had problems with Dynamic Views over those years. Sometimes it would take far too long to load a post, my eyes getting tired watching those gears move around and around, to just not  loading at all. Recently I posted a blog post and caught a spelling error in it after someone had posted a comment. So, I went to the blogger dashboard, edited the post, hit update  and then clicked "View" to see how it looked. The post wouldn't load. The words were there, but I couldn't scroll down and the little loading  icon just kept spinning and spinning and spinning. So, I made a command decisi...

Just testing out the new feature +Google+ rolled out yesterday. Since I finishing up a book I didn't get a chance to get online and and learned about this until late last night and nearly forgot about it earlier today except for a random comment I saw elsewhere which reminded me of the news I saw late yesterday evening. Above is the Mashable article on how to actually embed the G+ post into websites, and it's fairly basic: copy the code Google gives you and then past that code into your website. But I'm using  +Blogger and Blogger works a little differently. Sure for some people, coding in Blogger's HTML interface is par for course, but there are millions of people just like me who aren't coders, where do we paste that code? In the Compose window or the HTML window (located in the upper left hand corner underneath your blog's name in the blog post editor) I chose to post the code provided by Google+ into the HTML window, just like when I post ...

Are you not using Blogger for your website? Why?  Originally shared by David Kutcher It's been a while since I shared this post (and flamed the Blogger vs #Wordpress  war), but seemed to be the right time to re-share ;) Don't write off #Blogger because the cool kids tell you that you need to use Wordpress; it's simply not true. Blogger has a lot of advantages too.

I recently needed a way to embed a PDF file into a Blogger post. Simply put, sometimes when I'm around the internet it's easier to create a PDF using Chrome's print to PDF function versus a screenshot which might not catch the whole page. So I searched the interwebz. There were many websites purporting to know how to embed PDFs as view-able media by uploading the PDF to free hosting sites or Google Pages (Sites) or a variety of other avenues to approach this problem. Most of them relied on Google Drive and getting a link to the PDF file from the share  function and linking to the file on Drive. But that's not what I wanted to do, I wanted the PDF embedded in the blog post just like a picture or video. Unfortunately, you cannot load a PDF using the image uploader tool in Blogger. File type not supported and all that. However, it's a lot easier than the internet would have us believe. Tools Needed: PDF file Google Drive (Gmail account) Blogger (...

I find it ironic that MySpace became so popular and ushered in the age of social networking when sites like Blogger were already out there for people to write about their day, share their music and show friends their images. Before "social networking" bloggers could follow other bloggers by clicking "follow" and leave comments without a wall or a page. Actually, the more I play around with Blogger, with customization, HTML, embedding videos and slideshows, the more I realize MySpace held no features Blogger didn't already have, they just hit a target market (musicians, bands and entertainers) and made getting your stuff out there much easier than the idea of blogging. After all, blogging is something internet-nerds do, not something hip young people do, right? Unless, of course, you consider Facebook status updates as blogs (which they are), Twitter's 140 character "What I'm doing now" as blogs (which they are and is why Twitter is calle...

The BLOG THIS button in Picasa doesn't seem to be working for me today. It's not really uploading anything to Blogger leaving only a small empty square where an image should be. Very inconvenient. From Stuff

Okay, I just tried this using both the Atom and RSS feeder links , as well as the way described below (using just the blog's URL) with no success. How to Import Your Blog Into Facebook No matter how I try it, FB does not accept the Blogpost address. Is this a case of Google blocking FB or vice-versa? Has anyone tried this, or had luck with this? Let me know how you got it to work, if you got it to work. Thanks

You know how annoying it is to have someone send out a Tweet with a link to some information which takes you not to that information, but to a blog or a Friendfeed or a HootSuite link which then gives you a link to the actual information you were promised in the first place? Does this annoy you, too? For example, I follow someone on Twitter calling himself: @MusicSceneDenver. recently, he or they put out a tweet: musicdenver: St. John's Cathedral Choir http://is.gd/aKIjJ Fine. But when I hit the link and it takes me to your Blogger page and that page has no information on it other than a link to Westword's music page, I have to wonder why I'm following you in the first place. Why not just cut out the middle man and follow Westword directly? I see this often and using Twitter to direct traffic to your blog or website is fine in my book, but to not even make a blog post about it just smacks of spam. I tend to stop following people who do this because it's very irrita...