Blogger .com Makeover

11 ^AM May 10, 2004

This morning, David and I noticed that blogger.com was down. It turns out that it had been taken down for a complete makeover.

It is really quite good, and I am having trouble not raving about it.

For instance, I got this little blog going in four minutes flat. Other good things:

It has per-post archives.

Professional, round-edge templates.

Blogger now provide a commenting facility as part of the base product. I feel sorry for Haloscan.

An easily accessible explanation of what Blogger is and how it works.

Still supports syndication (via an Atom feed.)

All this brings to mind a friend, Jed Wesley-Smith. He has been posting interesting tid-bits to odd places for many years now. Jed, in the immortal words of the Silhouettes, “Get a blog. Sha na na na, sha na na na na.”

Boing Boing has a few more details.

By alang | # | Comments (9)

(Posted to Software Development and javablogs)

Comments

At 12:37, 10 May 2004 Charles Miller wrote:

Seconded!

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At 13:11, 10 May 2004 Simon Brunning wrote:

I hyave no opinion one way or t'other, but I gather that not everyone is so happy...

http://www.snowgoon.co.uk/2004_05_01_archive.html#108419233232929102

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At 13:12, 10 May 2004 Simon Brunning wrote:

Hay, another character for your valid-in-URLs list! ;-)

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At 19:38, 10 May 2004 Alan Green wrote:

Simon,

I checked that fix into CVS ages ago. It's just waiting for ops to deploy.

Honest.

Alan.

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At 20:41, 10 May 2004 ToddG wrote:

Their help pages seem python-driven. Wonder what flavor they're using (CGI, mod_python, etc.)?

ie:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=22

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At 00:01, 11 May 2004 Keith Pitty wrote:

I can't believe Jed has commented on this entry yet!

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At 00:25, 12 May 2004 Jed Wesley-Smith wrote:

Well, I left London on Saturday night and didn't get back till Monday morning, and what with jet-lag and seeing the family I've missed terribly, I've had no time or inclination for getting on the computer!

Anyhow, I still don't think I'll be taking the bait ... much as I love computing, I hate computers - nasty, cramped, annoying things that never quite work as advertised, massive time sinks - and so I am hesitant to committing to any activity that demands their usage.

So, for the moment I am going to have to be content being web-master of my son's football team, and otherwise living my bloglife vicariously by commenting when waiting for builds etc. ;-)

But thanks mate, I'll give it a look...

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At 22:23, 14 May 2004 Doug L. wrote:

How much money did they spend on that? And they didn't even bother to PROOFREAD it!?!?!!! (Hint: "Let's" is a contraction for "Let us". It is not a synonym for "allows".)

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At 00:48, 15 May 2004 Gordon wrote:

Contrary to popular belief it is growing on me.. the new Blogger that is..

But I think HaloScan is very safe at the moment, probably more so in the future as well.

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