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more recently we <a href="http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/10/adsense-for-feeds-now-available.html">added AdSense for Feeds</a> to help you generate revenue from the distribution of your blog via RSS and Atom. Today we launched a third option: direct integration with Amazon Associates to search Amazon’s product catalog and add links to products that earn you commissions when your readers buy products you recommend.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TUsUZ_QvHnwizdZvj320QNhIeanTdvxWpBB0Ma9ew52FUicu2Z1fnv7aegrqoFv9V5uKcHvLrXgF1I9A7KfbUjuQn7FHn_HICHfxXlT2PyM9wbq0p57Aw4vnbWyrPDqOZOez/s1600-h/amazon-stephen-king.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TUsUZ_QvHnwizdZvj320QNhIeanTdvxWpBB0Ma9ew52FUicu2Z1fnv7aegrqoFv9V5uKcHvLrXgF1I9A7KfbUjuQn7FHn_HICHfxXlT2PyM9wbq0p57Aw4vnbWyrPDqOZOez/s200/amazon-stephen-king.png" /></a>With this feature, you can search Amazon directly from the Blogger editor and add pictures and links to Amazon products right into your posts. Your readers will earn you commissions whenever they buy the products you recommend, and if you don’t already have an Amazon Associates account, you can sign up for one for free without leaving Blogger.<br /> <br /> If you’ve ever written a blog post about a book, recommended a gadget, or reviewed a toy you bought for your kids, you’ve likely gone through the process of drafting the post, opening up a separate window to go to find a site that sells the product, then going back to Blogger to paste the link to the product into the post editor. <br /> <br /> Starting today, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts. Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase. (For more on affiliate programs in general, <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/07/what-is-affiliate-marketing/">here is a good overview</a> at ProBlogger from this summer, and Darren’s “<a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/08/19/amazon-associates-tips/">11 Lessons Learned</a>” post about Amazon Associates is a good review of how to get the most out of the program.)<br /> <br /> To get started, click on the Monetize tab for your blog and click “Amazon Associates”. Walk through the setup wizard, and add the Product Finder once you’re done.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp85pp1h4Kr5NzR8a2uPoVF_3YE1YEaLeQW4AiJlgCwo2Pp5yNAQO1evRFmj78NFviFDYOxIBHpDVh5iVsrV9yCQm3hPaRizEobOycM3gi4V9CwWYRzks_ZtY1cmSffbtek3NI/s1600-h/amazon-setup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp85pp1h4Kr5NzR8a2uPoVF_3YE1YEaLeQW4AiJlgCwo2Pp5yNAQO1evRFmj78NFviFDYOxIBHpDVh5iVsrV9yCQm3hPaRizEobOycM3gi4V9CwWYRzks_ZtY1cmSffbtek3NI/s320/amazon-setup.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> Now for the fun part: when you are writing a post on Blogger, you’ll see an Amazon gadget to the right of your post editor (the “Product Finder”). You can search the Amazon product catalog from within Blogger — type in the name of the product you are writing about, and insert a link to the product, an image of the product, or an iframe containing the image, price details and a “buy it now” button. Every link that’s created contains your unique Associates ID, ensuring that Amazon will credit you for any purchases that result from readers clicking the link on your blog.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNDsBsietHQv-vvPD55Ie1GZfZYSkCw-OYAkeAHfsw0QCpcsmK36ST17IgjYqwN_gDtYRwqRv4uZMc4ZRRDv08XH9OHwujl4tBXWrwzwVyv2CZ0gPCJ9eumyetZnURlIDszpp/s1600-h/amazon-publishing-with-blogger.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNDsBsietHQv-vvPD55Ie1GZfZYSkCw-OYAkeAHfsw0QCpcsmK36ST17IgjYqwN_gDtYRwqRv4uZMc4ZRRDv08XH9OHwujl4tBXWrwzwVyv2CZ0gPCJ9eumyetZnURlIDszpp/s320/amazon-publishing-with-blogger.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> If you’re an existing Amazon Associate, completing this setup simply makes the Product Finder available on Blogger for you — you continue to earn the same referral rate from Amazon. New Associates receive the same referral rate from Amazon that they would have received if they signed up directly. If you’re not interested in earning a referral, you can still install the Product Finder: from the “Amazon Associates” page under the Monetize tab, click “I'll do this later — show me more Amazon options” and then click “Add the Product Finder” button.<br /> <br /> A quick note about trust: affiliate programs work well when readers trust you. You should avoid promoting products simply because of the referral fee you might earn — readers may lose some of that trust if they sense your posts exist solely to make you money. You may also want to disclose to your readers that you will earn a commission on their purchase — some readers even prefer knowing that you benefit from their business.<br /> <br /> There’s more information about this integration at <a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/blogger">Amazon.com</a>, and <a href="http://affiliate-blog.amazon.com/2009/12/amazon-associates-and-google-blogger-now-integrated.html">the Amazon Associates blog</a> has some more details. This integration is the result of months of collaboration between the engineers at both companies, and we’re very excited to share the results of this collaboration with you. Happy blogging! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Earlier this year we simplified the process for monetizing your blog by <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/04/monetize.html">adding a “Monetize” tab</a> in the Blogger app. We started with AdSense, which allows you to add contextual advertising to your pages; more recently we <a href="http://adsenseforfeeds.blogspot.com/2009/10/adsense-for-feeds-now-available.html">added AdSense for Feeds</a> to help you generate revenue from the distribution of your blog via RSS and Atom. Today we launched a third option: direct integration with Amazon Associates to search Amazon’s product catalog and add links to products that earn you commissions when your readers buy products you recommend.<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TUsUZ_QvHnwizdZvj320QNhIeanTdvxWpBB0Ma9ew52FUicu2Z1fnv7aegrqoFv9V5uKcHvLrXgF1I9A7KfbUjuQn7FHn_HICHfxXlT2PyM9wbq0p57Aw4vnbWyrPDqOZOez/s1600-h/amazon-stephen-king.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TUsUZ_QvHnwizdZvj320QNhIeanTdvxWpBB0Ma9ew52FUicu2Z1fnv7aegrqoFv9V5uKcHvLrXgF1I9A7KfbUjuQn7FHn_HICHfxXlT2PyM9wbq0p57Aw4vnbWyrPDqOZOez/s200/amazon-stephen-king.png" /></a>With this feature, you can search Amazon directly from the Blogger editor and add pictures and links to Amazon products right into your posts. Your readers will earn you commissions whenever they buy the products you recommend, and if you don’t already have an Amazon Associates account, you can sign up for one for free without leaving Blogger.<br /> <br /> If you’ve ever written a blog post about a book, recommended a gadget, or reviewed a toy you bought for your kids, you’ve likely gone through the process of drafting the post, opening up a separate window to go to find a site that sells the product, then going back to Blogger to paste the link to the product into the post editor. <br /> <br /> Starting today, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts. Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase. (For more on affiliate programs in general, <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/07/what-is-affiliate-marketing/">here is a good overview</a> at ProBlogger from this summer, and Darren’s “<a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/08/19/amazon-associates-tips/">11 Lessons Learned</a>” post about Amazon Associates is a good review of how to get the most out of the program.)<br /> <br /> To get started, click on the Monetize tab for your blog and click “Amazon Associates”. Walk through the setup wizard, and add the Product Finder once you’re done.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp85pp1h4Kr5NzR8a2uPoVF_3YE1YEaLeQW4AiJlgCwo2Pp5yNAQO1evRFmj78NFviFDYOxIBHpDVh5iVsrV9yCQm3hPaRizEobOycM3gi4V9CwWYRzks_ZtY1cmSffbtek3NI/s1600-h/amazon-setup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp85pp1h4Kr5NzR8a2uPoVF_3YE1YEaLeQW4AiJlgCwo2Pp5yNAQO1evRFmj78NFviFDYOxIBHpDVh5iVsrV9yCQm3hPaRizEobOycM3gi4V9CwWYRzks_ZtY1cmSffbtek3NI/s320/amazon-setup.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> Now for the fun part: when you are writing a post on Blogger, you’ll see an Amazon gadget to the right of your post editor (the “Product Finder”). You can search the Amazon product catalog from within Blogger — type in the name of the product you are writing about, and insert a link to the product, an image of the product, or an iframe containing the image, price details and a “buy it now” button. Every link that’s created contains your unique Associates ID, ensuring that Amazon will credit you for any purchases that result from readers clicking the link on your blog.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNDsBsietHQv-vvPD55Ie1GZfZYSkCw-OYAkeAHfsw0QCpcsmK36ST17IgjYqwN_gDtYRwqRv4uZMc4ZRRDv08XH9OHwujl4tBXWrwzwVyv2CZ0gPCJ9eumyetZnURlIDszpp/s1600-h/amazon-publishing-with-blogger.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNDsBsietHQv-vvPD55Ie1GZfZYSkCw-OYAkeAHfsw0QCpcsmK36ST17IgjYqwN_gDtYRwqRv4uZMc4ZRRDv08XH9OHwujl4tBXWrwzwVyv2CZ0gPCJ9eumyetZnURlIDszpp/s320/amazon-publishing-with-blogger.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> If you’re an existing Amazon Associate, completing this setup simply makes the Product Finder available on Blogger for you — you continue to earn the same referral rate from Amazon. New Associates receive the same referral rate from Amazon that they would have received if they signed up directly. If you’re not interested in earning a referral, you can still install the Product Finder: from the “Amazon Associates” page under the Monetize tab, click “I'll do this later — show me more Amazon options” and then click “Add the Product Finder” button.<br /> <br /> A quick note about trust: affiliate programs work well when readers trust you. You should avoid promoting products simply because of the referral fee you might earn — readers may lose some of that trust if they sense your posts exist solely to make you money. You may also want to disclose to your readers that you will earn a commission on their purchase — some readers even prefer knowing that you benefit from their business.<br /> <br /> There’s more information about this integration at <a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/blogger">Amazon.com</a>, and <a href="http://affiliate-blog.amazon.com/2009/12/amazon-associates-and-google-blogger-now-integrated.html">the Amazon Associates blog</a> has some more details. This integration is the result of months of collaboration between the engineers at both companies, and we’re very excited to share the results of this collaboration with you. Happy blogging! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blogger integrates with Amazon Associates&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/12/blogger-integrates-with-amazon.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/12/blogger-integrates-with-amazon.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7536809109411854673' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/coming-up-next.html' itemprop='url' title='Coming up Next...'> Coming up Next... </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> November 10, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Helen Kang, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm4tG4MrygfPJn50kgSdxVi2DMT5wGzJptKo4Zn-Sm6yYEnlGrhq41LPE-m27-qTxuGHdssxPaKkSPN1Ys4A1-jXcGFJSzYfNOjclcVvRD8JsyGTBtJONK2pdp1B1x9ckOFH8/s1600-h/nextblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm4tG4MrygfPJn50kgSdxVi2DMT5wGzJptKo4Zn-Sm6yYEnlGrhq41LPE-m27-qTxuGHdssxPaKkSPN1Ys4A1-jXcGFJSzYfNOjclcVvRD8JsyGTBtJONK2pdp1B1x9ckOFH8/s400/nextblog.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Some of you must have wondered what the Next Blog link on the NavBar does, and clicked on the link once or twice. Next Blog used to take you to a random blog, written by a random blogger. Your fellow blogger could have been writing her blog in a language that you don't know how to read. Or you might be someone who likes to read about food and restaurants in Germany, but your randomly chosen next blog could have been focused on sports, and written in Tagalog.<br /> <br /> We've made the Next Blog link more useful, by taking you to a blog that you might like. The new and improved Next Blog link will now take you to a blog with similar content, in a language that you understand. If you are reading a Spanish blog about food, the Next Blog link will likely take you to another blog about food. In Spanish!<br /> <br /> You might discover a cool blogger who has hobbies similar to yours, has similar taste in electronic gadgets, likes sports that you're into, or has similar curiosities and interests. We will finish rolling out the new and improved Next Blog link over the next week and hope that you will enjoy discovering blogs that are likely to interest you.<br /> <br /> This has been a fun, collaborative effort on the Blogger team and we've enjoyed the support we received from other Google teams. We really hope you enjoy the new, more relevant Next Blog as much as we do. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Helen Kang, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm4tG4MrygfPJn50kgSdxVi2DMT5wGzJptKo4Zn-Sm6yYEnlGrhq41LPE-m27-qTxuGHdssxPaKkSPN1Ys4A1-jXcGFJSzYfNOjclcVvRD8JsyGTBtJONK2pdp1B1x9ckOFH8/s1600-h/nextblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm4tG4MrygfPJn50kgSdxVi2DMT5wGzJptKo4Zn-Sm6yYEnlGrhq41LPE-m27-qTxuGHdssxPaKkSPN1Ys4A1-jXcGFJSzYfNOjclcVvRD8JsyGTBtJONK2pdp1B1x9ckOFH8/s400/nextblog.jpg" /></a></div><br /> Some of you must have wondered what the Next Blog link on the NavBar does, and clicked on the link once or twice. Next Blog used to take you to a random blog, written by a random blogger. Your fellow blogger could have been writing her blog in a language that you don't know how to read. Or you might be someone who likes to read about food and restaurants in Germany, but your randomly chosen next blog could have been focused on sports, and written in Tagalog.<br /> <br /> We've made the Next Blog link more useful, by taking you to a blog that you might like. The new and improved Next Blog link will now take you to a blog with similar content, in a language that you understand. If you are reading a Spanish blog about food, the Next Blog link will likely take you to another blog about food. In Spanish!<br /> <br /> You might discover a cool blogger who has hobbies similar to yours, has similar taste in electronic gadgets, likes sports that you're into, or has similar curiosities and interests. We will finish rolling out the new and improved Next Blog link over the next week and hope that you will enjoy discovering blogs that are likely to interest you.<br /> <br /> This has been a fun, collaborative effort on the Blogger team and we've enjoyed the support we received from other Google teams. We really hope you enjoy the new, more relevant Next Blog as much as we do. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Coming up Next...&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/coming-up-next.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/coming-up-next.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6056645194519257248' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/blogger-in-your-own-words.html' itemprop='url' title='Blogger in Your Own Words'> Blogger in Your Own Words </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> November 06, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last week we asked you for a few words to describe both the Blogger of the present and the Blogger you'd like to see in the future. You responded overwhelmingly, and now as promised we'd like to share the unedited results with you:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Blogger Today</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(click for large version)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDndajw-gD0uG9XiGXS3d8nobMqIm8ZVWkGUdB9N2bRgF-AuBEA2DSleIyp0OiirJdH0CsiDleLsjkiaGQ1cQtdk_Xjcha1tUQcjTS7o10raA5VdWLWQidUIn67zOV5n_qkT1ZQ/s1600-h/bloggernow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDndajw-gD0uG9XiGXS3d8nobMqIm8ZVWkGUdB9N2bRgF-AuBEA2DSleIyp0OiirJdH0CsiDleLsjkiaGQ1cQtdk_Xjcha1tUQcjTS7o10raA5VdWLWQidUIn67zOV5n_qkT1ZQ/s320/bloggernow.png" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Blogger in the Future</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">(click for large version)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsemzVjiGjUqEcNLEirUuqKw9J45QbPp9G2H8LW6nJyuLrdsnUxyF0QNLcqwBcy-Sq3cOvDPoDzUVmxLzPEU5mCJ0fqhTZyeUHJi_sbNG724MUobeLrPLOzgVseczdnLY90kMveQ/s1600-h/bloggerfuture.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsemzVjiGjUqEcNLEirUuqKw9J45QbPp9G2H8LW6nJyuLrdsnUxyF0QNLcqwBcy-Sq3cOvDPoDzUVmxLzPEU5mCJ0fqhTZyeUHJi_sbNG724MUobeLrPLOzgVseczdnLY90kMveQ/s320/bloggerfuture.png" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Thanks to everyone who pitched in their two cents; we're very excited to take your words and start writing the next chapter of Blogger.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>(And of course thanks to </i><a href="http://www.wordle.net/"><i>Wordle</i></a><i> for the awesome word clouds!)</i></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Last week we asked you for a few words to describe both the Blogger of the present and the Blogger you'd like to see in the future. You responded overwhelmingly, and now as promised we'd like to share the unedited results with you:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Blogger Today</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(click for large version)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDndajw-gD0uG9XiGXS3d8nobMqIm8ZVWkGUdB9N2bRgF-AuBEA2DSleIyp0OiirJdH0CsiDleLsjkiaGQ1cQtdk_Xjcha1tUQcjTS7o10raA5VdWLWQidUIn67zOV5n_qkT1ZQ/s1600-h/bloggernow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDndajw-gD0uG9XiGXS3d8nobMqIm8ZVWkGUdB9N2bRgF-AuBEA2DSleIyp0OiirJdH0CsiDleLsjkiaGQ1cQtdk_Xjcha1tUQcjTS7o10raA5VdWLWQidUIn67zOV5n_qkT1ZQ/s320/bloggernow.png" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Blogger in the Future</b></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;">(click for large version)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsemzVjiGjUqEcNLEirUuqKw9J45QbPp9G2H8LW6nJyuLrdsnUxyF0QNLcqwBcy-Sq3cOvDPoDzUVmxLzPEU5mCJ0fqhTZyeUHJi_sbNG724MUobeLrPLOzgVseczdnLY90kMveQ/s1600-h/bloggerfuture.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsemzVjiGjUqEcNLEirUuqKw9J45QbPp9G2H8LW6nJyuLrdsnUxyF0QNLcqwBcy-Sq3cOvDPoDzUVmxLzPEU5mCJ0fqhTZyeUHJi_sbNG724MUobeLrPLOzgVseczdnLY90kMveQ/s320/bloggerfuture.png" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Thanks to everyone who pitched in their two cents; we're very excited to take your words and start writing the next chapter of Blogger.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i>(And of course thanks to </i><a href="http://www.wordle.net/"><i>Wordle</i></a><i> for the awesome word clouds!)</i></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blogger in Your Own Words&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/blogger-in-your-own-words.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/blogger-in-your-own-words.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8958049676058453378' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/improving-our-communication-of-blogger.html' itemprop='url' title='Improving Our Communication of Blogger Service Interruptions'> Improving Our Communication of Blogger Service Interruptions </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> November 04, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> By Eddie Kessler, Blogger Engineering Manager<br /> <br /> After a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the <a href="http://status.blogger.com/">Blogger Status blog</a> within 3 business days to provide details about what went wrong and what we're doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.<br /> <br /> During any outage, we try to keep the <a href="http://status.blogger.com/">Blogger Status blog</a> updated once we know about an issue. Of course sometimes — as was the case on Saturday — affected users who cannot reach Blogger cannot reach the Status blog either. In such cases, we will try to post updates on the <a href="http://twitter.com/blogger">Blogger account on Twitter</a> to keep users apprised of what we know and when we expect a resolution.<br /> <br /> We don't like it when our users experience problems like what we saw on Saturday, but we hope the combination of transparency around these issues and our commitment to learn from our mistakes will help assure you that we're doing everything we can to keep Blogger a robust and reliable service for you. As always, thank you for using Blogger. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> By Eddie Kessler, Blogger Engineering Manager<br /> <br /> After a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the <a href="http://status.blogger.com/">Blogger Status blog</a> within 3 business days to provide details about what went wrong and what we're doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.<br /> <br /> During any outage, we try to keep the <a href="http://status.blogger.com/">Blogger Status blog</a> updated once we know about an issue. Of course sometimes — as was the case on Saturday — affected users who cannot reach Blogger cannot reach the Status blog either. In such cases, we will try to post updates on the <a href="http://twitter.com/blogger">Blogger account on Twitter</a> to keep users apprised of what we know and when we expect a resolution.<br /> <br /> We don't like it when our users experience problems like what we saw on Saturday, but we hope the combination of transparency around these issues and our commitment to learn from our mistakes will help assure you that we're doing everything we can to keep Blogger a robust and reliable service for you. As always, thank you for using Blogger. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Improving Our Communication of Blogger Service Interruptions&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/improving-our-communication-of-blogger.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/11/improving-our-communication-of-blogger.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4550556755426318146' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/new-transparent-navbar-styles.html' itemprop='url' title='New Transparent Navbar Styles'> New Transparent Navbar Styles </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> October 30, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> As a blog author, you've probably spent more than a little time getting exactly the right "look" for your blog. A blog is an outlet for creative expression, and how your blog looks says as much about you as what is written on it. And we at Blogger are committed to giving you the tools to make a great-looking blog.<br /> <br /> The Blog*Spot navigation bar ("navbar") is one area where we realized that there was some room for improvement. Our four traditional color scheme choices — Blue, Black, Tan, and Silver — are somewhat limited, especially if your blog's background color is <span style="background-color: lime;">lime green</span> or <span style="background-color: magenta;">hot pink</span>.<br /> <br /> That's why we have added two new color schemes — "Transparent Light" and "Transparent Dark." These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as "alpha blending"). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog's background color and pattern. The "Transparent Light" color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of "Transparent Dark" is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tG5p9ezuwSTRr90o3fQC23vfBS35l1LFCqpeCJlqltb43qsn9TNNV9vwgXvahyphenhyphenvvyEp4IVr9bv8juvOf6LGrCIqRj5cwRekzAargt90ps_LKE9ekG-hqH0aCMr-Pm5N8X_2E/s1600-h/navbartransparentlight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tG5p9ezuwSTRr90o3fQC23vfBS35l1LFCqpeCJlqltb43qsn9TNNV9vwgXvahyphenhyphenvvyEp4IVr9bv8juvOf6LGrCIqRj5cwRekzAargt90ps_LKE9ekG-hqH0aCMr-Pm5N8X_2E/s640/navbartransparentlight.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbAplKgjNuEAE0PboJST-j8Yg4omhwj6tQFsnCB_zB9Sq815lMwoW-gED-Z0vA_sIP0XVqJSDgMHQGf7M56gRjRqTrTA5ivgKyvTyRgzbbV7tdDvhVUOw0st9DuEeE6LwHuB/s1600-h/navbartransparentdark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbAplKgjNuEAE0PboJST-j8Yg4omhwj6tQFsnCB_zB9Sq815lMwoW-gED-Z0vA_sIP0XVqJSDgMHQGf7M56gRjRqTrTA5ivgKyvTyRgzbbV7tdDvhVUOw0st9DuEeE6LwHuB/s640/navbartransparentdark.jpg" /></a></div><br /> In addition, we've simplified and slimmed down the look of all the navbars, so that they will be more likely to harmonize with the aesthetics of your blog.<br /> <br /> To enable the <i>Transparent Light</i> or the <i>Transparent Dark</i> navbar, go to <b>Layout | Page Elements</b>, then click <b>Edit</b> next to the navbar widget:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLson6KpS_learF8NTBfU0H-VSqgOaG0p4S7Lzv_raHvZa2WjYxaiXXuVOSIZysUVirK3iXtRTzV6nyxAwb_u7stEk8fS9rDEP8dOFh8NIwRd5xOGrot5RLnafp6Kw-GMDBQd2/s1600-h/editnav.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLson6KpS_learF8NTBfU0H-VSqgOaG0p4S7Lzv_raHvZa2WjYxaiXXuVOSIZysUVirK3iXtRTzV6nyxAwb_u7stEk8fS9rDEP8dOFh8NIwRd5xOGrot5RLnafp6Kw-GMDBQd2/s320/editnav.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> We had a lot of fun adding this feature and hope you like it too. Try it out! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> As a blog author, you've probably spent more than a little time getting exactly the right "look" for your blog. A blog is an outlet for creative expression, and how your blog looks says as much about you as what is written on it. And we at Blogger are committed to giving you the tools to make a great-looking blog.<br /> <br /> The Blog*Spot navigation bar ("navbar") is one area where we realized that there was some room for improvement. Our four traditional color scheme choices — Blue, Black, Tan, and Silver — are somewhat limited, especially if your blog's background color is <span style="background-color: lime;">lime green</span> or <span style="background-color: magenta;">hot pink</span>.<br /> <br /> That's why we have added two new color schemes — "Transparent Light" and "Transparent Dark." These new color schemes take advantage of the ability of modern browsers to render transparency (a technique known to web designers as "alpha blending"). This allows the navbar background to blend together with your blog's background color and pattern. The "Transparent Light" color scheme has a semi-transparent white background, producing subtle pastel colors, while the background of "Transparent Dark" is a semi-transparent black that produces a shaded look.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tG5p9ezuwSTRr90o3fQC23vfBS35l1LFCqpeCJlqltb43qsn9TNNV9vwgXvahyphenhyphenvvyEp4IVr9bv8juvOf6LGrCIqRj5cwRekzAargt90ps_LKE9ekG-hqH0aCMr-Pm5N8X_2E/s1600-h/navbartransparentlight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tG5p9ezuwSTRr90o3fQC23vfBS35l1LFCqpeCJlqltb43qsn9TNNV9vwgXvahyphenhyphenvvyEp4IVr9bv8juvOf6LGrCIqRj5cwRekzAargt90ps_LKE9ekG-hqH0aCMr-Pm5N8X_2E/s640/navbartransparentlight.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbAplKgjNuEAE0PboJST-j8Yg4omhwj6tQFsnCB_zB9Sq815lMwoW-gED-Z0vA_sIP0XVqJSDgMHQGf7M56gRjRqTrTA5ivgKyvTyRgzbbV7tdDvhVUOw0st9DuEeE6LwHuB/s1600-h/navbartransparentdark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7IbAplKgjNuEAE0PboJST-j8Yg4omhwj6tQFsnCB_zB9Sq815lMwoW-gED-Z0vA_sIP0XVqJSDgMHQGf7M56gRjRqTrTA5ivgKyvTyRgzbbV7tdDvhVUOw0st9DuEeE6LwHuB/s640/navbartransparentdark.jpg" /></a></div><br /> In addition, we've simplified and slimmed down the look of all the navbars, so that they will be more likely to harmonize with the aesthetics of your blog.<br /> <br /> To enable the <i>Transparent Light</i> or the <i>Transparent Dark</i> navbar, go to <b>Layout | Page Elements</b>, then click <b>Edit</b> next to the navbar widget:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLson6KpS_learF8NTBfU0H-VSqgOaG0p4S7Lzv_raHvZa2WjYxaiXXuVOSIZysUVirK3iXtRTzV6nyxAwb_u7stEk8fS9rDEP8dOFh8NIwRd5xOGrot5RLnafp6Kw-GMDBQd2/s1600-h/editnav.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLson6KpS_learF8NTBfU0H-VSqgOaG0p4S7Lzv_raHvZa2WjYxaiXXuVOSIZysUVirK3iXtRTzV6nyxAwb_u7stEk8fS9rDEP8dOFh8NIwRd5xOGrot5RLnafp6Kw-GMDBQd2/s320/editnav.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> We had a lot of fun adding this feature and hope you like it too. Try it out! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:New Transparent Navbar Styles&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/new-transparent-navbar-styles.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/new-transparent-navbar-styles.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1988679651595153804' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/next-chapter.html' itemprop='url' title='The Next Chapter'> The Next Chapter </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> October 23, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> As we close the chapter on the first ten years over here on Blogger, the team couldn't be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead over the next ten. And while we've got some great things planned already, we know that the ideas and passion of the Blogger community will inspire us further. So in that spirit, we're going to once again ask for some help writing out the next chapter of Blogger. Only this time, we mean it quite literally :-)<br /> <br /> <div class="im">We'd like you to take a second to think about where Blogger is today, and then where you'd like to see it in the future. What are some words that come to mind? How would you describe it?<br /> <br /> </div>Specifically, we're looking for six adjectives—three to describe the present, and three to describe hopes for the future. And when you've come up with them, please take a second to <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFhPYUpwbWkxZ2FBb1UzUnRhS3JnWlE6MQ%20" target="_blank">let us know what you are thinking</a>. Once we've heard what everyone has to say, we'll follow-up here to share the results.<br /> <div class="im"><br /> Once again, we really do appreciate your words!</div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> As we close the chapter on the first ten years over here on Blogger, the team couldn't be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead over the next ten. And while we've got some great things planned already, we know that the ideas and passion of the Blogger community will inspire us further. So in that spirit, we're going to once again ask for some help writing out the next chapter of Blogger. Only this time, we mean it quite literally :-)<br /> <br /> <div class="im">We'd like you to take a second to think about where Blogger is today, and then where you'd like to see it in the future. What are some words that come to mind? How would you describe it?<br /> <br /> </div>Specifically, we're looking for six adjectives—three to describe the present, and three to describe hopes for the future. And when you've come up with them, please take a second to <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFhPYUpwbWkxZ2FBb1UzUnRhS3JnWlE6MQ%20" target="_blank">let us know what you are thinking</a>. Once we've heard what everyone has to say, we'll follow-up here to share the results.<br /> <div class="im"><br /> Once again, we really do appreciate your words!</div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:The Next Chapter&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/next-chapter.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/next-chapter.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6857567567605455729' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-2009.html' itemprop='url' title='Blog Action Day 2009'> Blog Action Day 2009 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> October 13, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Guest post by Robin Beck, <a href="http://blogactionday.org/">Blog Action Day</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI7IaqmEzIb6CC5QgKqtpw95e9iqXPR4dmpcp55OscVDre2OeKWu7MNNeUDABLi7ncJ68OG7TSSX3X79bnUFsLCztyNZW6yfbVjkhWcIv6QvvAURqutJMY6QwMo8t5fezcZSTfA/s1600-h/blogactionday.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI7IaqmEzIb6CC5QgKqtpw95e9iqXPR4dmpcp55OscVDre2OeKWu7MNNeUDABLi7ncJ68OG7TSSX3X79bnUFsLCztyNZW6yfbVjkhWcIv6QvvAURqutJMY6QwMo8t5fezcZSTfA/s320/blogactionday.PNG" /></a></div><br /> This is Robin Beck here from Blog Action Day central, and I want to thank Rick and the Blogger team for helping support Blog Action Day 2009. <br /> <br /> For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every <b>October 15th </b>where bloggers across the world unite to write about a single issue on a single day.  We like to think of it as one big blogfest for good, and our goal is to spark conversation on an issue of importance across the web.<br /> <br /> This year’s topic is climate change, and we’ve thus far had more than <b>4,000 bloggers</b> from <b>123 countries</b> register, including many of the world’s largest blogs. <br /> <br /> Our aim is to make Blog Action Day 2009 the largest social change event on the web as a demonstration of global concern about the climate crisis. To achieve this, we want to invite the entire Blogger community to get involved and commit to writing a single post about climate change on your blog on October 15th. <br /> <br /> You can register your blog <a href="http://blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new%20">here</a>.<a href="http://blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new%20"></a><br /> <br /> In addition to joining thousands of other bloggers, you’ll also be supporting the work of the dozens of leading nonprofits who are also participating – including Oxfam, 350.org, The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, The United Nations Foundation, and more than forty organizations affiliated with the <a href="http://tcktcktck.org/">TckTckTck</a> campaign.<br /> <br /> You can learn more about the issue of climate change and see sample topics you might write about at <a href="http://www.blogactionday.org/">www.blogactionday.org</a>.  There you can also find additional ways to get involved by taking action with leading nonprofits and posting a snazzy widget to your blog.<br /> <br /> Thanks so much for your support – we hope to have you all as part of the event!<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/3CnIJ19EVMo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/3CnIJ19EVMo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="405" height="252"></embed></object> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Guest post by Robin Beck, <a href="http://blogactionday.org/">Blog Action Day</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI7IaqmEzIb6CC5QgKqtpw95e9iqXPR4dmpcp55OscVDre2OeKWu7MNNeUDABLi7ncJ68OG7TSSX3X79bnUFsLCztyNZW6yfbVjkhWcIv6QvvAURqutJMY6QwMo8t5fezcZSTfA/s1600-h/blogactionday.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI7IaqmEzIb6CC5QgKqtpw95e9iqXPR4dmpcp55OscVDre2OeKWu7MNNeUDABLi7ncJ68OG7TSSX3X79bnUFsLCztyNZW6yfbVjkhWcIv6QvvAURqutJMY6QwMo8t5fezcZSTfA/s320/blogactionday.PNG" /></a></div><br /> This is Robin Beck here from Blog Action Day central, and I want to thank Rick and the Blogger team for helping support Blog Action Day 2009. <br /> <br /> For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every <b>October 15th </b>where bloggers across the world unite to write about a single issue on a single day.  We like to think of it as one big blogfest for good, and our goal is to spark conversation on an issue of importance across the web.<br /> <br /> This year’s topic is climate change, and we’ve thus far had more than <b>4,000 bloggers</b> from <b>123 countries</b> register, including many of the world’s largest blogs. <br /> <br /> Our aim is to make Blog Action Day 2009 the largest social change event on the web as a demonstration of global concern about the climate crisis. To achieve this, we want to invite the entire Blogger community to get involved and commit to writing a single post about climate change on your blog on October 15th. <br /> <br /> You can register your blog <a href="http://blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new%20">here</a>.<a href="http://blogactionday.org/en/blogs/new%20"></a><br /> <br /> In addition to joining thousands of other bloggers, you’ll also be supporting the work of the dozens of leading nonprofits who are also participating – including Oxfam, 350.org, The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, The United Nations Foundation, and more than forty organizations affiliated with the <a href="http://tcktcktck.org/">TckTckTck</a> campaign.<br /> <br /> You can learn more about the issue of climate change and see sample topics you might write about at <a href="http://www.blogactionday.org/">www.blogactionday.org</a>.  There you can also find additional ways to get involved by taking action with leading nonprofits and posting a snazzy widget to your blog.<br /> <br /> Thanks so much for your support – we hope to have you all as part of the event!<br /> <br /> <object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/3CnIJ19EVMo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/3CnIJ19EVMo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="405" height="252"></embed></object> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blog Action Day 2009&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-2009.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-2009.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4397562292213065148' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/keeping-your-blog-secure_09.html' itemprop='url' title='Keeping Your Blog Secure'> Keeping Your Blog Secure </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> October 09, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://imgur.com/w7jiz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /> <img border="0" height="166" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uGfAc1-VB4wRbzgmZ37PffpmPnf_BwLzpWqUcepXHted69P3V_VtU_eMzbBD-qxxVfGB3iKhCvKiIfCUE=s0-d" width="200"></a>While October is to many a month of candy and costumes, it also happens to be <b>National Cyber Security Awareness Month</b> in the U.S. In that spirit, we thought we'd take a minute to look at a few different things you can do to make sure both your content and account are secure on Blogger.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Third Party Code</b><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adding site counters, templates, and other third-party code to your blog can be a great way to add some flare to your content, but can also leave your blog vulnerable to malicious activity if you aren't familiar with its source.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Over the years we've seen a number of third party scripts disguise themselves as helpful add-ons, when in fact they are performing a malicious operation behind the scenes. For example, a site counter widget may indeed be providing your blog with helpful tracking data, but at the same time may also be discreetly sending that information to advertisers for the purpose of collecting the online habits of your readers. A blog template you downloaded from a third party site might include pop-up ads or links to dangerous sites that install malware on visitor's computers.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The good news though is that most of the add-ons you will run across are perfectly legitimate. To protect yourself from the small minority of add-ons that are nefarious, we've put together a few tips to keep in mind when adding third party code to your blog:<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Take a moment to review the code and look for anything that seems out of place. </b>For example, if you are adding a weather gadget to your blog and notice in the code that there are links pointing to unrelated sites, take that as a red flag and keep searching for another weather gadget. There is no reason that a weather gadget should include a snippet like <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://completelyfreemoney.com">Make Money Online!</a></span><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Before saving new template code, always preview first.</b> Malicious template designers may sometimes include pop-ups or other unexpected ads in the template code, which will usually be revealed with a quick preview. If anything unexpected shows up in the preview, go ahead and discard the new code by clicking <b>Clear Edits</b>.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Backup your template!</b> Whenever making significant changes to your blog's template, it's always a good idea to backup your content beforehand just in case you need to reverse changes.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://imgur.com/pY6rN.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vfMbC1kUwzH5GbiWdEzT61J4NVp-tEAoP60M6xyAQnXdGIu4Rd-_88g7Nh2YGhRngAW--x-p-o17oFO7o=s0-d"></a>You can easily do this from the <b>Layout | Edit HTML</b> tab by clicking the <b>Download Full Template</b> link and saving the .XML file to your hard drive. You'll then be able to revert back to this downloaded version by clicking the <b>Upload </b>button, also right under the <b>Layout | Edit HTML</b> tab.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Look first to 'trusted' code repositories for a new template or widget.</b> There are probably thousands of places across the web where you can find widget and template code, but it may be helpful to first check out some of the more widely known and trusted sources.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For templates, we've actually done a bit of scouting work already and collected a handful of great resources laid out <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/06/spruce-up-your-blog.html">in this Buzz post</a> from earlier in the year. That collection comes from a number of well-established designers, and should provide plenty of secure template options to dig though.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For widgets and other scripts, there are a handful of places worth your time. <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/09/06/widgets-2/">Mashable's 50 Great Widgets for Your Blog</a> is a very nice compilation that covers a broad range of categories. <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">Widgetbox</a> is another great portal to countless widget creations, all organized into easily browseable categories. Finally, Blogger's own Gadget Directory has hundreds of gadgets to look through. Simply click the <b>Add a Gadget</b> link under the <b>Layout | Page Elements</b> tab to access them all.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://imgur.com/KNBGQ.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s6TiJSSaqw1ghn2DrQPgOsLSSk_FOXM7n7FcgD_AsWP7BAPhUI11m0MrjPQyaPJdtccVMxBUMefN6eULGH=s0-d"></a><br /> </div><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Permissions</b><br /> <br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Finally we thought it's worth touching on another security area which has proven problematic for some bloggers in the past, and that is your blog's <b>Permissions</b> settings.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Almost every day our support team receives reports from users who've been locked out of their own blog, the result of giving admin privileges to an unfamiliar blogger. Remember, you can always add more authors to your blog, but only extend admin privileges if you absolutely trust the person.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>For more information about National Cyber Security Awareness Month, please check the <a href="http://staysafeonline.org/">StaySafeOnline.org</a> page as well as the security series on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/security">Official Google blog</a>.</i><br /> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://imgur.com/w7jiz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /> <img border="0" height="166" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uGfAc1-VB4wRbzgmZ37PffpmPnf_BwLzpWqUcepXHted69P3V_VtU_eMzbBD-qxxVfGB3iKhCvKiIfCUE=s0-d" width="200"></a>While October is to many a month of candy and costumes, it also happens to be <b>National Cyber Security Awareness Month</b> in the U.S. In that spirit, we thought we'd take a minute to look at a few different things you can do to make sure both your content and account are secure on Blogger.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Third Party Code</b><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Adding site counters, templates, and other third-party code to your blog can be a great way to add some flare to your content, but can also leave your blog vulnerable to malicious activity if you aren't familiar with its source.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Over the years we've seen a number of third party scripts disguise themselves as helpful add-ons, when in fact they are performing a malicious operation behind the scenes. For example, a site counter widget may indeed be providing your blog with helpful tracking data, but at the same time may also be discreetly sending that information to advertisers for the purpose of collecting the online habits of your readers. A blog template you downloaded from a third party site might include pop-up ads or links to dangerous sites that install malware on visitor's computers.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The good news though is that most of the add-ons you will run across are perfectly legitimate. To protect yourself from the small minority of add-ons that are nefarious, we've put together a few tips to keep in mind when adding third party code to your blog:<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Take a moment to review the code and look for anything that seems out of place. </b>For example, if you are adding a weather gadget to your blog and notice in the code that there are links pointing to unrelated sites, take that as a red flag and keep searching for another weather gadget. There is no reason that a weather gadget should include a snippet like <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://completelyfreemoney.com">Make Money Online!</a></span><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Before saving new template code, always preview first.</b> Malicious template designers may sometimes include pop-ups or other unexpected ads in the template code, which will usually be revealed with a quick preview. If anything unexpected shows up in the preview, go ahead and discard the new code by clicking <b>Clear Edits</b>.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Backup your template!</b> Whenever making significant changes to your blog's template, it's always a good idea to backup your content beforehand just in case you need to reverse changes.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://imgur.com/pY6rN.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vfMbC1kUwzH5GbiWdEzT61J4NVp-tEAoP60M6xyAQnXdGIu4Rd-_88g7Nh2YGhRngAW--x-p-o17oFO7o=s0-d"></a>You can easily do this from the <b>Layout | Edit HTML</b> tab by clicking the <b>Download Full Template</b> link and saving the .XML file to your hard drive. You'll then be able to revert back to this downloaded version by clicking the <b>Upload </b>button, also right under the <b>Layout | Edit HTML</b> tab.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Look first to 'trusted' code repositories for a new template or widget.</b> There are probably thousands of places across the web where you can find widget and template code, but it may be helpful to first check out some of the more widely known and trusted sources.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For templates, we've actually done a bit of scouting work already and collected a handful of great resources laid out <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/06/spruce-up-your-blog.html">in this Buzz post</a> from earlier in the year. That collection comes from a number of well-established designers, and should provide plenty of secure template options to dig though.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For widgets and other scripts, there are a handful of places worth your time. <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/09/06/widgets-2/">Mashable's 50 Great Widgets for Your Blog</a> is a very nice compilation that covers a broad range of categories. <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">Widgetbox</a> is another great portal to countless widget creations, all organized into easily browseable categories. Finally, Blogger's own Gadget Directory has hundreds of gadgets to look through. Simply click the <b>Add a Gadget</b> link under the <b>Layout | Page Elements</b> tab to access them all.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://imgur.com/KNBGQ.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s6TiJSSaqw1ghn2DrQPgOsLSSk_FOXM7n7FcgD_AsWP7BAPhUI11m0MrjPQyaPJdtccVMxBUMefN6eULGH=s0-d"></a><br /> </div><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Permissions</b><br /> <br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Finally we thought it's worth touching on another security area which has proven problematic for some bloggers in the past, and that is your blog's <b>Permissions</b> settings.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Almost every day our support team receives reports from users who've been locked out of their own blog, the result of giving admin privileges to an unfamiliar blogger. Remember, you can always add more authors to your blog, but only extend admin privileges if you absolutely trust the person.<br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>For more information about National Cyber Security Awareness Month, please check the <a href="http://staysafeonline.org/">StaySafeOnline.org</a> page as well as the security series on the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/security">Official Google blog</a>.</i><br /> </div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Keeping Your Blog Secure&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/keeping-your-blog-secure_09.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/keeping-your-blog-secure_09.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='3270099569591778038' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/post-to-blogger-with-google-sidewiki.html' itemprop='url' title='Post to Blogger with Google Sidewiki'> Post to Blogger with Google Sidewiki </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> October 01, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ApDkQ9W-r-xH6dw2RSreH18o8dk4F4pxfsDX184ij-w-U_dQr9L-EHg4TxiQS2Dhyphenhyphen1x3duELgwGeQVn2RtBo_1uwpBggwlnA07o2uoPoUi2WhE0eSlSo_sCZNXwgGn0MPXKi_Q/s1600-h/Screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ApDkQ9W-r-xH6dw2RSreH18o8dk4F4pxfsDX184ij-w-U_dQr9L-EHg4TxiQS2Dhyphenhyphen1x3duELgwGeQVn2RtBo_1uwpBggwlnA07o2uoPoUi2WhE0eSlSo_sCZNXwgGn0MPXKi_Q/s320/Screenshot.png" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last week, Google Sidewiki </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">launched to the world</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others right in your browser's sidebar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s1600-h/screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s1600/screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s200/screenshot.png" width="255" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google Sidewiki uses a special relevancy algorithm to display the most helpful entries first, and also has built-in technology to display your entries on other sites which contain the same <left> snippet of text. For a more in-depth look at how it all works, as well as a full overview of all the features that Google Sidewiki has to offer, the team put together a very helpful page which you can check out </left></span><a href="//www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/learnmore.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">One feature in particular did catch our attention here on the Blogger team, and that is the ability to post your Google Sidewiki entires directly to your blog. You can watch a quick video tutorial of how it all works below:</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/AH9clAjqV9w&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/AH9clAjqV9w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></span><br /> <br /> <span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So if you haven't already, </span><a href="//www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/#tbbrand=GZEV" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">download the Google Toolbar</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and give Sidewiki a try. As you come up with new ideas, submit them on the </span><a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=219a8" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sidewiki product ideas page</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">!</span></span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ApDkQ9W-r-xH6dw2RSreH18o8dk4F4pxfsDX184ij-w-U_dQr9L-EHg4TxiQS2Dhyphenhyphen1x3duELgwGeQVn2RtBo_1uwpBggwlnA07o2uoPoUi2WhE0eSlSo_sCZNXwgGn0MPXKi_Q/s1600-h/Screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ApDkQ9W-r-xH6dw2RSreH18o8dk4F4pxfsDX184ij-w-U_dQr9L-EHg4TxiQS2Dhyphenhyphen1x3duELgwGeQVn2RtBo_1uwpBggwlnA07o2uoPoUi2WhE0eSlSo_sCZNXwgGn0MPXKi_Q/s320/Screenshot.png" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last week, Google Sidewiki </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">launched to the world</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others right in your browser's sidebar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s1600-h/screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s1600/screenshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiF38g-f6I9QBIZj1r4fc9Vr_y8E3IgYKwrIgOaXboJLHmzDpxKE8p9y5Cm-kVWHjIr5_KwJKxfNlAmMubbRbqpo0yenBxgehMTk8p6Zz-bQiS52hyphenhyphenzLGgSp4CJ6aMUynjNLxePw/s200/screenshot.png" width="255" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google Sidewiki uses a special relevancy algorithm to display the most helpful entries first, and also has built-in technology to display your entries on other sites which contain the same <left> snippet of text. For a more in-depth look at how it all works, as well as a full overview of all the features that Google Sidewiki has to offer, the team put together a very helpful page which you can check out </left></span><a href="//www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/learnmore.html"><span style="font-family: inherit;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="border-collapse: collapse;">One feature in particular did catch our attention here on the Blogger team, and that is the ability to post your Google Sidewiki entires directly to your blog. You can watch a quick video tutorial of how it all works below:</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/AH9clAjqV9w&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/AH9clAjqV9w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></span><br /> <br /> <span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So if you haven't already, </span><a href="//www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/#tbbrand=GZEV" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">download the Google Toolbar</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and give Sidewiki a try. As you come up with new ideas, submit them on the </span><a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=219a8" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sidewiki product ideas page</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">!</span></span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Post to Blogger with Google Sidewiki&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/post-to-blogger-with-google-sidewiki.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/10/post-to-blogger-with-google-sidewiki.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='508640076363106342' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/bloggers-wanted.html' itemprop='url' title='Bloggers wanted!'> Bloggers wanted! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 25, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we'd like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improving Blogger.<br /> <br /> Interested? <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFo1cXc1QWlpRkVtWnN3RkhvcDV5NVE6MA.." target="_blank">Sign up here</a>.<br /> <br /> Thanks! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we'd like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improving Blogger.<br /> <br /> Interested? <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFo1cXc1QWlpRkVtWnN3RkhvcDV5NVE6MA.." target="_blank">Sign up here</a>.<br /> <br /> Thanks! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Bloggers wanted!&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/bloggers-wanted.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/bloggers-wanted.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5106669293769735872' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/show-your-face.html' itemprop='url' title='Show your face!'> Show your face! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by <a href="http://www.lu-chen.net/">Lu Chen</a>, Blogger Summer Intern (Philadelphia, PA)<br /> <br /> Last October we launched a <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/10/commenting-made-easier.html">comments feature</a> that let you embed comments and the commenting form below your blog posts. <br /> <br /> Today we have extended embedded comments to display profile images next to the comments that your visitors write. Though profile images have been available with the other commenting options, we are happy to bring them to embedded comments as part of the <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger Birthday feature series</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqARbBGySMCiV4cNjjVORiCc1phvrgaBQWCdzzTMP3uB9JN-mf4rQWOOM4MOQiJduCwMV5dYIBYAwLDAgmD7jZ_6rVjxvZK96UMczxs4KrEhTq9UzqVnkpnvi-waWVw7geqhbC/s1600-h/photosincomments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqARbBGySMCiV4cNjjVORiCc1phvrgaBQWCdzzTMP3uB9JN-mf4rQWOOM4MOQiJduCwMV5dYIBYAwLDAgmD7jZ_6rVjxvZK96UMczxs4KrEhTq9UzqVnkpnvi-waWVw7geqhbC/s320/photosincomments.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <br /> We've also made it much easier to upload a profile photo when you leave a comment on a Blogger blog. From the comment preview, click "Add photo" to upload a photo to your Blogger profile. The next time you comment on a Blogger blog, your profile photo will be displayed next to your comment. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoqzj9LBMUeX3DLmgBTdRh7DrN0cBhML3UyxldpbRiMwRRMtR5FW-uTalg-1rsJ69G6blwB0mu_gb80QtYt5Qg0jyWFMTHmtGVh4WGXIhrmdum4e6AuWOm32PhWe1-nFf4xvK/s1600-h/addimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoqzj9LBMUeX3DLmgBTdRh7DrN0cBhML3UyxldpbRiMwRRMtR5FW-uTalg-1rsJ69G6blwB0mu_gb80QtYt5Qg0jyWFMTHmtGVh4WGXIhrmdum4e6AuWOm32PhWe1-nFf4xvK/s320/addimage.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <br /> To enable or disable profile images in your blog's comments, go to <b>Settings</b> | <b>Comments</b>. <br /> <br /> Cheers to photo-filled comments! <br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by <a href="http://www.lu-chen.net/">Lu Chen</a>, Blogger Summer Intern (Philadelphia, PA)<br /> <br /> Last October we launched a <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/10/commenting-made-easier.html">comments feature</a> that let you embed comments and the commenting form below your blog posts. <br /> <br /> Today we have extended embedded comments to display profile images next to the comments that your visitors write. Though profile images have been available with the other commenting options, we are happy to bring them to embedded comments as part of the <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger Birthday feature series</a>.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqARbBGySMCiV4cNjjVORiCc1phvrgaBQWCdzzTMP3uB9JN-mf4rQWOOM4MOQiJduCwMV5dYIBYAwLDAgmD7jZ_6rVjxvZK96UMczxs4KrEhTq9UzqVnkpnvi-waWVw7geqhbC/s1600-h/photosincomments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqARbBGySMCiV4cNjjVORiCc1phvrgaBQWCdzzTMP3uB9JN-mf4rQWOOM4MOQiJduCwMV5dYIBYAwLDAgmD7jZ_6rVjxvZK96UMczxs4KrEhTq9UzqVnkpnvi-waWVw7geqhbC/s320/photosincomments.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <br /> We've also made it much easier to upload a profile photo when you leave a comment on a Blogger blog. From the comment preview, click "Add photo" to upload a photo to your Blogger profile. The next time you comment on a Blogger blog, your profile photo will be displayed next to your comment. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoqzj9LBMUeX3DLmgBTdRh7DrN0cBhML3UyxldpbRiMwRRMtR5FW-uTalg-1rsJ69G6blwB0mu_gb80QtYt5Qg0jyWFMTHmtGVh4WGXIhrmdum4e6AuWOm32PhWe1-nFf4xvK/s1600-h/addimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoqzj9LBMUeX3DLmgBTdRh7DrN0cBhML3UyxldpbRiMwRRMtR5FW-uTalg-1rsJ69G6blwB0mu_gb80QtYt5Qg0jyWFMTHmtGVh4WGXIhrmdum4e6AuWOm32PhWe1-nFf4xvK/s320/addimage.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <br /> To enable or disable profile images in your blog's comments, go to <b>Settings</b> | <b>Comments</b>. <br /> <br /> Cheers to photo-filled comments! <br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Show your face!&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/show-your-face.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/show-your-face.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1769556190215560750' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/turn-your-blog-into-book-with.html' itemprop='url' title='Turn Your Blog into a Book with Blog2Print'> Turn Your Blog into a Book with Blog2Print </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 15, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Guest Post by Caroline Vanderlip, <a href="http://www.sharedbook.com/">SharedBook</a> CEO<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFmObjCRno1vQBqA7n5YpjAK2TKdkk7xqMGPIWwZNfD6G27-17MztDSXz11WkAKEuOZ_RnEBVdeZ8UzgY6-NsUNGN5UPB2iwIeg3g0pFjhgQ4Z5W7jbRw8Mwl_y6l9TKlaIRe/s1600/blog2print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFmObjCRno1vQBqA7n5YpjAK2TKdkk7xqMGPIWwZNfD6G27-17MztDSXz11WkAKEuOZ_RnEBVdeZ8UzgY6-NsUNGN5UPB2iwIeg3g0pFjhgQ4Z5W7jbRw8Mwl_y6l9TKlaIRe/s200/blog2print.jpg" /></a>To continue Blogger's 10th anniversary celebration, I’m delighted to announce that Blog2Print has now <a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/">partnered with Blogger</a>. Blog2Print lets you publish some or all of your posts and photos as a professionally-printed, full-color book. Since 2007, thousands of Blogger users have become Blog2Print fans, using our easy and quick service to save and share all their favorite writings with friends and family or to keep a hard-copy version of their work. You can make books by season, by year, by event or even by theme, and you can choose from soft cover or hard cover versions of your book.<br /> <br /> Your book from Blog2Print.com can include selected comments from your posts, and you can also add your own additional photos and new comments as you edit your book to make a unique edition for posterity.<br /> <br /> Blog2Print is easy to use – just <a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/">enter your blog URL</a>, select the date range for the posts you’d like to include, and choose a cover from among the nine choices. You can add an optional dedication, and then click to produce your book. A table of contents will be generated automatically, and in a few seconds you’ll see a preview of exactly what your finished book will look like.<br /> <br /> Best of all, Blog2Print books start at only $14.95 for a soft cover book. The base price includes 20 pages, but you can add as many pages as you like – just 35 cents each.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Guest Post by Caroline Vanderlip, <a href="http://www.sharedbook.com/">SharedBook</a> CEO<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFmObjCRno1vQBqA7n5YpjAK2TKdkk7xqMGPIWwZNfD6G27-17MztDSXz11WkAKEuOZ_RnEBVdeZ8UzgY6-NsUNGN5UPB2iwIeg3g0pFjhgQ4Z5W7jbRw8Mwl_y6l9TKlaIRe/s1600/blog2print.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFmObjCRno1vQBqA7n5YpjAK2TKdkk7xqMGPIWwZNfD6G27-17MztDSXz11WkAKEuOZ_RnEBVdeZ8UzgY6-NsUNGN5UPB2iwIeg3g0pFjhgQ4Z5W7jbRw8Mwl_y6l9TKlaIRe/s200/blog2print.jpg" /></a>To continue Blogger's 10th anniversary celebration, I’m delighted to announce that Blog2Print has now <a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/">partnered with Blogger</a>. Blog2Print lets you publish some or all of your posts and photos as a professionally-printed, full-color book. Since 2007, thousands of Blogger users have become Blog2Print fans, using our easy and quick service to save and share all their favorite writings with friends and family or to keep a hard-copy version of their work. You can make books by season, by year, by event or even by theme, and you can choose from soft cover or hard cover versions of your book.<br /> <br /> Your book from Blog2Print.com can include selected comments from your posts, and you can also add your own additional photos and new comments as you edit your book to make a unique edition for posterity.<br /> <br /> Blog2Print is easy to use – just <a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/">enter your blog URL</a>, select the date range for the posts you’d like to include, and choose a cover from among the nine choices. You can add an optional dedication, and then click to produce your book. A table of contents will be generated automatically, and in a few seconds you’ll see a preview of exactly what your finished book will look like.<br /> <br /> Best of all, Blog2Print books start at only $14.95 for a soft cover book. The base price includes 20 pages, but you can add as many pages as you like – just 35 cents each.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Turn Your Blog into a Book with Blog2Print&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/turn-your-blog-into-book-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/turn-your-blog-into-book-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5926807868533566816' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/widgetbox-make-widget-from-your-blog.html' itemprop='url' title='Widgetbox: Make a Widget From Your Blog'> Widgetbox: Make a Widget From Your Blog </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 14, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Guest Post by Will Price, CEO of <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="21i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Widgetbox</a><br /> <br /> In honor of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="30i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Blogger’s 10 birthday</a>, all of us at Widgetbox are excited to announce a partnership with Blogger that allows you to quickly and easily <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="68i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">turn your blog into a widget</a>. Whether you want to add your blog’s headlines to your main website, let your fans showcase your content to their audience, or you want a widget that helps make your content more discoverable across the web, Widgetbox-powered widgets will help you get the most visibility for your content, while eliminating the need for any manual updating or management.<br /> <br /> For example, the Blogger Buzz widget below was made in seconds and includes posts, images, and Blogger Buzz branding:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi24i9eyCbs28yltHSivSHy9tvyIPZbvFHcaupv8tw0QZAyxn7vpuecsnPtAsW6OvbAUki3g-OjKnMmBRTG2nag22TOPABE6j32UVJca7z_ixWn4HRLcZB8A8Gs5VAXdc0-jOOF/s1600-h/blogger-buzz-widget.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi24i9eyCbs28yltHSivSHy9tvyIPZbvFHcaupv8tw0QZAyxn7vpuecsnPtAsW6OvbAUki3g-OjKnMmBRTG2nag22TOPABE6j32UVJca7z_ixWn4HRLcZB8A8Gs5VAXdc0-jOOF/s320/blogger-buzz-widget.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> <b>Key Benefits?</b><br /> <ol id="111i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" type="1"><li id="112i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The easiest way to build a widget from your blog</li> <li id="116i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Colorful, interactive, and engaging</li> <li id="126i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Easy to add to Blogger and sites across the web</li> <li id="130i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As you update your blog, the widget automatically updates with the latest posts, headlines, and images</li> <li id="134i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Helps you reach new readers and drive traffic back to your blog</li> </ol><br /> <div id="145i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOkfipqoZFVikETvLKAvYbOlL9K_rq3S9rAqM8Cmnc87uXd_4XTtgYebQWAXCOOf289kXeOAJ0aOZDiZJ5B7vuy8wxbTvYPRoKsnz0GLsjMGWNUKB2qmGeT01_7W42pbuP8Z_/s1600-h/blogger-widgetbox.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOkfipqoZFVikETvLKAvYbOlL9K_rq3S9rAqM8Cmnc87uXd_4XTtgYebQWAXCOOf289kXeOAJ0aOZDiZJ5B7vuy8wxbTvYPRoKsnz0GLsjMGWNUKB2qmGeT01_7W42pbuP8Z_/s200/blogger-widgetbox.png" /></a><span id="147i:-e" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><b id="148i:-e"><span id="149i:-e" style="font-size: small;">How Do You Build Your Widget?</span></b><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="151i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Building a widget</a> with Widgetbox is simple, easy, and fun. Simply:<br /> <ol id="162i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" type="1"><li id="163i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="164i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Enter your blog feed</a></li> <li id="169i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Design your widget’s look and feel</li> <li id="173i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Publish the widget</li> <li id="177i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Add it to your site and watch it spread across the web</li> <li id="181i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Access statistics on unique views, widget installs, and other blogs and domains that have installed your widget</li> </ol><br /> Tens of thousands of Blogger users have already made a widget from their blog on Widgetbox. Take your blog feed, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="203i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">make it into a widget</a>, and share it with everyone. It’s that easy!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Guest Post by Will Price, CEO of <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="21i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Widgetbox</a><br /> <br /> In honor of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="30i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Blogger’s 10 birthday</a>, all of us at Widgetbox are excited to announce a partnership with Blogger that allows you to quickly and easily <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="68i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">turn your blog into a widget</a>. Whether you want to add your blog’s headlines to your main website, let your fans showcase your content to their audience, or you want a widget that helps make your content more discoverable across the web, Widgetbox-powered widgets will help you get the most visibility for your content, while eliminating the need for any manual updating or management.<br /> <br /> For example, the Blogger Buzz widget below was made in seconds and includes posts, images, and Blogger Buzz branding:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi24i9eyCbs28yltHSivSHy9tvyIPZbvFHcaupv8tw0QZAyxn7vpuecsnPtAsW6OvbAUki3g-OjKnMmBRTG2nag22TOPABE6j32UVJca7z_ixWn4HRLcZB8A8Gs5VAXdc0-jOOF/s1600-h/blogger-buzz-widget.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi24i9eyCbs28yltHSivSHy9tvyIPZbvFHcaupv8tw0QZAyxn7vpuecsnPtAsW6OvbAUki3g-OjKnMmBRTG2nag22TOPABE6j32UVJca7z_ixWn4HRLcZB8A8Gs5VAXdc0-jOOF/s320/blogger-buzz-widget.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> <b>Key Benefits?</b><br /> <ol id="111i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" type="1"><li id="112i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The easiest way to build a widget from your blog</li> <li id="116i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Colorful, interactive, and engaging</li> <li id="126i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Easy to add to Blogger and sites across the web</li> <li id="130i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As you update your blog, the widget automatically updates with the latest posts, headlines, and images</li> <li id="134i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Helps you reach new readers and drive traffic back to your blog</li> </ol><br /> <div id="145i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOkfipqoZFVikETvLKAvYbOlL9K_rq3S9rAqM8Cmnc87uXd_4XTtgYebQWAXCOOf289kXeOAJ0aOZDiZJ5B7vuy8wxbTvYPRoKsnz0GLsjMGWNUKB2qmGeT01_7W42pbuP8Z_/s1600-h/blogger-widgetbox.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYOkfipqoZFVikETvLKAvYbOlL9K_rq3S9rAqM8Cmnc87uXd_4XTtgYebQWAXCOOf289kXeOAJ0aOZDiZJ5B7vuy8wxbTvYPRoKsnz0GLsjMGWNUKB2qmGeT01_7W42pbuP8Z_/s200/blogger-widgetbox.png" /></a><span id="147i:-e" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><b id="148i:-e"><span id="149i:-e" style="font-size: small;">How Do You Build Your Widget?</span></b><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="151i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Building a widget</a> with Widgetbox is simple, easy, and fun. Simply:<br /> <ol id="162i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" type="1"><li id="163i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="164i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">Enter your blog feed</a></li> <li id="169i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Design your widget’s look and feel</li> <li id="173i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Publish the widget</li> <li id="177i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Add it to your site and watch it spread across the web</li> <li id="181i:-e" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Access statistics on unique views, widget installs, and other blogs and domains that have installed your widget</li> </ol><br /> Tens of thousands of Blogger users have already made a widget from their blog on Widgetbox. Take your blog feed, <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/affiliate/184/?r=http://www.widgetbox.com/info/blogger/" id="203i:-e" style="color: #551a8b;">make it into a widget</a>, and share it with everyone. It’s that easy!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Widgetbox: Make a Widget From Your Blog&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/widgetbox-make-widget-from-your-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/widgetbox-make-widget-from-your-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='432838778406647895' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/its-date.html' itemprop='url' title='It's a date!'> It's a date! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 11, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Ross Peter Nelson, Software Engineer, Google Calendar<br /> <br /> Do you have an event you'd like to invite your readers to?  Thanks to Blogger Gadgets, this is now a piece of cake.  Click the <b>Customize</b> link in the toolbar, and go to the <b>Layout</b> tab.  There, you'll see the <b>Add a Gadget</b> link. The Event Gadget is currently one of the featured gadgets, or you can add it directly by clicking "add your own" and entering the URL <a href="//www.google.com/ig/modules/calendar/socialevent/bloggerevent.xml" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/ig/<wbr></wbr>modules/calendar/socialevent/<wbr></wbr>bloggerevent.xml</a>.  You'll then be taken to a configuration page that lets you enter information about your event. Once you click <b>Save</b>, it will be visible on your blog for everyone to see.<br /> <br /> The gadget allows your readers to indicate whether they are going to attend the event, and lets them see which of their <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/02/friendconnect-grow-your-blogs-community.html" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank" title="FriendConnect">FriendConnect</a> friends will be there too. In addition, anyone with a Google Calendar account can simply click a link to have that event added to their Google Calendar.<br /> <br /> You can add multiple events to your blog as long as you give each one a different title or ID, and we'll keep track of who's attending which one.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Ross Peter Nelson, Software Engineer, Google Calendar<br /> <br /> Do you have an event you'd like to invite your readers to?  Thanks to Blogger Gadgets, this is now a piece of cake.  Click the <b>Customize</b> link in the toolbar, and go to the <b>Layout</b> tab.  There, you'll see the <b>Add a Gadget</b> link. The Event Gadget is currently one of the featured gadgets, or you can add it directly by clicking "add your own" and entering the URL <a href="//www.google.com/ig/modules/calendar/socialevent/bloggerevent.xml" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/ig/<wbr></wbr>modules/calendar/socialevent/<wbr></wbr>bloggerevent.xml</a>.  You'll then be taken to a configuration page that lets you enter information about your event. Once you click <b>Save</b>, it will be visible on your blog for everyone to see.<br /> <br /> The gadget allows your readers to indicate whether they are going to attend the event, and lets them see which of their <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/02/friendconnect-grow-your-blogs-community.html" style="color: #114170;" target="_blank" title="FriendConnect">FriendConnect</a> friends will be there too. In addition, anyone with a Google Calendar account can simply click a link to have that event added to their Google Calendar.<br /> <br /> You can add multiple events to your blog as long as you give each one a different title or ID, and we'll keep track of who's attending which one.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #551a8b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:It's a date!&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/its-date.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/its-date.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2769453684867650677' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/you-might-as-well-jump.html' itemprop='url' title='You Might As Well Jump!'> You Might As Well Jump! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 09, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Sean McCullough, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;">It's time to announce another Blogger Birthday feature! Many users have been asking for an easy way to implement "Read more" links on their blog's index page. In fact, for years bloggers have been implementing "Read more" jump breaks themselves <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42215">by manually editing their HTML</a> --- a process that was complicated and error prone. <br /> <br /> Today we are excited to announce our latest birthday present: <b>Jump Breaks</b>. <br /> <br /> With Jump Breaks you can show just a snippet of your post on your blog's index page. Blogger will insert a "Read more" link to the full post page where your readers can keep reading.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJgtmfbQXCqZfoSOiPkUp99irC_mxMjcgaIlHgjJCJbyKdAtksa6Vud9EYghu3TjUyhHpA7HIuBhhqG-ypPbn2RYS_eEa-tGGTTCD79Pq6jYvepSloG4YkeuBNEpBWmyPfKK-N/s1600-h/readmore2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJgtmfbQXCqZfoSOiPkUp99irC_mxMjcgaIlHgjJCJbyKdAtksa6Vud9EYghu3TjUyhHpA7HIuBhhqG-ypPbn2RYS_eEa-tGGTTCD79Pq6jYvepSloG4YkeuBNEpBWmyPfKK-N/s400/readmore2.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <br /> There are a couple of ways to insert a "Read more" jump to your posts. If you use the <b>new post editor</b> (available on <a href="//draft.blogger.com/">Blogger in Draft</a>, or <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156829#enable">by enabling it via the Settings tab</a>), you'll notice the "Insert jump break" icon in the editor's toolbar. Click this icon and the "jump break" will be inserted into your blog post at your cursor's position.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmTe4CbLIyxZJINYQVP05As9Uyd4aoRsvfIXkN8FErXCqjBOJgEKXOxbC6HpPqR6I91fylCRBys6kQbfIdf4mjprOzvJ1pQu6qBT6XYDj30zyf1ouv8_EWo0Sy7WXy0b8F9o/s1600-h/readmore.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmTe4CbLIyxZJINYQVP05As9Uyd4aoRsvfIXkN8FErXCqjBOJgEKXOxbC6HpPqR6I91fylCRBys6kQbfIdf4mjprOzvJ1pQu6qBT6XYDj30zyf1ouv8_EWo0Sy7WXy0b8F9o/s400/readmore.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> If you don't use the new post editor, you can still insert a jump break in <b>Edit HTML</b> mode by adding <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><</b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">!-- more --></span> </b>where you want to position the jump break.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuy8k9JmFumhK_AtTP8ChXJCyMX2zVeCI4TS2-Mjo2_gfz6M4kmNBUx2GHaVsSmxfz1bqlSozzEn87KHWctIncSdTRINkiYlzMFMdbm2wKT8gNaRr8CO44IHZ_YSiXv-bxJcx/s1600-h/jumppoint.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuy8k9JmFumhK_AtTP8ChXJCyMX2zVeCI4TS2-Mjo2_gfz6M4kmNBUx2GHaVsSmxfz1bqlSozzEn87KHWctIncSdTRINkiYlzMFMdbm2wKT8gNaRr8CO44IHZ_YSiXv-bxJcx/s400/jumppoint.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <br /> Want to change the "Read more" text to something more your style? No problem. You can edit the "Read more" text by clicking <b>Layout </b>and then <b>Edit </b>the <b>Blog Posts</b> widget.<br /> <div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYfg2Y54PK_C_DB_2p9rZl7IZaab7w7o3Ydc_aQBsL7SQtexOn-qNIPhWKQCTbuTEuIKi2vWZd2nfAPKTEFNXqFATM_iVHJv4rc2ZOczw8RYdtpsAm1eR_eNlnvc8ZiCfDAZx/s1600-h/pagepagelinktext.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYfg2Y54PK_C_DB_2p9rZl7IZaab7w7o3Ydc_aQBsL7SQtexOn-qNIPhWKQCTbuTEuIKi2vWZd2nfAPKTEFNXqFATM_iVHJv4rc2ZOczw8RYdtpsAm1eR_eNlnvc8ZiCfDAZx/s400/pagepagelinktext.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> One more note, the Jump Break feature does not change how your post appears in your feed. You can configure post feed options by going to <b>Settings | Basic | Site Feed</b>, and editing <b>Allow Blog Feeds</b>.<br /> <b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Update</b>: Users that have customized their <b>Blog Posts</b> widget or otherwise have highly customized templates: You may need to edit your HTML to enable Jump Breaks. First, <b>back up your template,</b> then follow the instructions at the bottom of this <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=154172">help article</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Sean McCullough, Software Engineer, Blogger<br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: inherit;">It's time to announce another Blogger Birthday feature! Many users have been asking for an easy way to implement "Read more" links on their blog's index page. In fact, for years bloggers have been implementing "Read more" jump breaks themselves <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42215">by manually editing their HTML</a> --- a process that was complicated and error prone. <br /> <br /> Today we are excited to announce our latest birthday present: <b>Jump Breaks</b>. <br /> <br /> With Jump Breaks you can show just a snippet of your post on your blog's index page. Blogger will insert a "Read more" link to the full post page where your readers can keep reading.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJgtmfbQXCqZfoSOiPkUp99irC_mxMjcgaIlHgjJCJbyKdAtksa6Vud9EYghu3TjUyhHpA7HIuBhhqG-ypPbn2RYS_eEa-tGGTTCD79Pq6jYvepSloG4YkeuBNEpBWmyPfKK-N/s1600-h/readmore2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJgtmfbQXCqZfoSOiPkUp99irC_mxMjcgaIlHgjJCJbyKdAtksa6Vud9EYghu3TjUyhHpA7HIuBhhqG-ypPbn2RYS_eEa-tGGTTCD79Pq6jYvepSloG4YkeuBNEpBWmyPfKK-N/s400/readmore2.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <br /> There are a couple of ways to insert a "Read more" jump to your posts. If you use the <b>new post editor</b> (available on <a href="//draft.blogger.com/">Blogger in Draft</a>, or <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156829#enable">by enabling it via the Settings tab</a>), you'll notice the "Insert jump break" icon in the editor's toolbar. Click this icon and the "jump break" will be inserted into your blog post at your cursor's position.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmTe4CbLIyxZJINYQVP05As9Uyd4aoRsvfIXkN8FErXCqjBOJgEKXOxbC6HpPqR6I91fylCRBys6kQbfIdf4mjprOzvJ1pQu6qBT6XYDj30zyf1ouv8_EWo0Sy7WXy0b8F9o/s1600-h/readmore.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmTe4CbLIyxZJINYQVP05As9Uyd4aoRsvfIXkN8FErXCqjBOJgEKXOxbC6HpPqR6I91fylCRBys6kQbfIdf4mjprOzvJ1pQu6qBT6XYDj30zyf1ouv8_EWo0Sy7WXy0b8F9o/s400/readmore.png" /></a></div><br /> <br /> If you don't use the new post editor, you can still insert a jump break in <b>Edit HTML</b> mode by adding <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><</b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">!-- more --></span> </b>where you want to position the jump break.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuy8k9JmFumhK_AtTP8ChXJCyMX2zVeCI4TS2-Mjo2_gfz6M4kmNBUx2GHaVsSmxfz1bqlSozzEn87KHWctIncSdTRINkiYlzMFMdbm2wKT8gNaRr8CO44IHZ_YSiXv-bxJcx/s1600-h/jumppoint.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLuy8k9JmFumhK_AtTP8ChXJCyMX2zVeCI4TS2-Mjo2_gfz6M4kmNBUx2GHaVsSmxfz1bqlSozzEn87KHWctIncSdTRINkiYlzMFMdbm2wKT8gNaRr8CO44IHZ_YSiXv-bxJcx/s400/jumppoint.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /> <br /> Want to change the "Read more" text to something more your style? No problem. You can edit the "Read more" text by clicking <b>Layout </b>and then <b>Edit </b>the <b>Blog Posts</b> widget.<br /> <div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYfg2Y54PK_C_DB_2p9rZl7IZaab7w7o3Ydc_aQBsL7SQtexOn-qNIPhWKQCTbuTEuIKi2vWZd2nfAPKTEFNXqFATM_iVHJv4rc2ZOczw8RYdtpsAm1eR_eNlnvc8ZiCfDAZx/s1600-h/pagepagelinktext.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYfg2Y54PK_C_DB_2p9rZl7IZaab7w7o3Ydc_aQBsL7SQtexOn-qNIPhWKQCTbuTEuIKi2vWZd2nfAPKTEFNXqFATM_iVHJv4rc2ZOczw8RYdtpsAm1eR_eNlnvc8ZiCfDAZx/s400/pagepagelinktext.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> One more note, the Jump Break feature does not change how your post appears in your feed. You can configure post feed options by going to <b>Settings | Basic | Site Feed</b>, and editing <b>Allow Blog Feeds</b>.<br /> <b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Update</b>: Users that have customized their <b>Blog Posts</b> widget or otherwise have highly customized templates: You may need to edit your HTML to enable Jump Breaks. First, <b>back up your template,</b> then follow the instructions at the bottom of this <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=154172">help article</a>.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:You Might As Well Jump!&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/you-might-as-well-jump.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/you-might-as-well-jump.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='7840126751314647071' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/12/one-click-blogging-with-blogthis-chrome.html' itemprop='url' title='One-click Blogging with BlogThis! Chrome Extension'> One-click Blogging with BlogThis! Chrome Extension </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 09, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Chang Kim, Product Manager, Blogger<br /> <br /> More and more of you are using Google Chrome (<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html">more than 30 million active users now</a>!), and we want to let you know that a Blogger extension is included in the Chrome Extensions gallery. The <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">BlogThis! Chrome extension</a> is available now, one of several hundred extensions to be found in the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/">Chrome extensions gallery</a>.<br /> <br /> Using the BlogThis! Chrome extension, you can start writing a blog post in one click. Whenever you are inspired by a web page you are looking at and want to blog about it, just click on the BlogThis! button on your Chrome toolbar, and the Blogger post editor opens up with a pre-populated link to the web page you were on. If you want to include any text in your post, simply highlight it before clicking on the BlogThis! button. Edit the post as you'd like, and publish it instantly or save it as a draft for future posting.<br /> <br /> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413391441032036722" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEySW06zZgc/SyA61ZDawXI/AAAAAAAAACI/HHUxBldohys/s400/2.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 309px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"><br /> To try out the BlogThis! Chrome extension, first switch to <a href="//www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/">Google Chrome BETA</a> (if you are not already on that version), and install the BlogThis! extension by clicking on "Extensions" on your browser toolbar or visiting the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">BlogThis! extension homepage</a>. Note: Extensions are only available for Chrome on the PC and Linux; Extension support on <a href="//www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en">Chrome for Mac</a> is under development. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Chang Kim, Product Manager, Blogger<br /> <br /> More and more of you are using Google Chrome (<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html">more than 30 million active users now</a>!), and we want to let you know that a Blogger extension is included in the Chrome Extensions gallery. The <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">BlogThis! Chrome extension</a> is available now, one of several hundred extensions to be found in the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/">Chrome extensions gallery</a>.<br /> <br /> Using the BlogThis! Chrome extension, you can start writing a blog post in one click. Whenever you are inspired by a web page you are looking at and want to blog about it, just click on the BlogThis! button on your Chrome toolbar, and the Blogger post editor opens up with a pre-populated link to the web page you were on. If you want to include any text in your post, simply highlight it before clicking on the BlogThis! button. Edit the post as you'd like, and publish it instantly or save it as a draft for future posting.<br /> <br /> <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413391441032036722" src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/_pEySW06zZgc/SyA61ZDawXI/AAAAAAAAACI/HHUxBldohys/s400/2.png" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 309px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;"><br /> To try out the BlogThis! Chrome extension, first switch to <a href="//www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/">Google Chrome BETA</a> (if you are not already on that version), and install the BlogThis! extension by clicking on "Extensions" on your browser toolbar or visiting the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk">BlogThis! extension homepage</a>. Note: Extensions are only available for Chrome on the PC and Linux; Extension support on <a href="//www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac&hl=en">Chrome for Mac</a> is under development. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:One-click Blogging with BlogThis! Chrome Extension&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/12/one-click-blogging-with-blogthis-chrome.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/12/one-click-blogging-with-blogthis-chrome.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='302355785954069003' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/earn-charity-donations-on-blogger-with.html' itemprop='url' title='Earn Charity Donations on Blogger with SocialVibe'> Earn Charity Donations on Blogger with SocialVibe </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 02, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Guest Post<br /> by Joe Marchese, <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/">SocialVibe</a> CEO<br /> <br /> In honor of Blogger's 10th anniversary, we are excited to announce that you can now use your blogs to create positive, measurable social change. By adding the SocialVibe gadget to your blog, you'll be turning brand dollars into real charitable donations for the cause of your choice. The World Wildlife Foundation, Nature Conservancy, DonorsChoose, Invisible Children, and Charity:Water are just a few of the great charities you can support on Blogger.<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidn4XAQQeo1AQ8MlSrHcHMH4Z0gil_ZlgmglBtqmOn2OCpY0fRYYBkq4RecN_AmNxJTt3ZdQ_zNLeUefwQn9MYsSjUouzBn2KJ5t0KjlTk-U2MCd4Dfhja77aFMgeY-yqCRBk/s1600-h/socialvibe.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidn4XAQQeo1AQ8MlSrHcHMH4Z0gil_ZlgmglBtqmOn2OCpY0fRYYBkq4RecN_AmNxJTt3ZdQ_zNLeUefwQn9MYsSjUouzBn2KJ5t0KjlTk-U2MCd4Dfhja77aFMgeY-yqCRBk/s320/socialvibe.png" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" width="175" /></a><br /> Once you install the SocialVibe sidebar gadget on your blog, money will be earned for charities every time readers engage with the gadget (e.g. rating a Showtime video clip). You can switch your cause and sponsor as often as you like, and receive regular updates from your charity about goal progress and impact. Thus far, SocialVibe has been able to raise over $500,000 for charities, and we know the Blogger community will be able to significantly increase this amount. In fact, we are setting a goal for the community to raise $50,000 before the end of the year (and remember, you don't raise money by taking money out of your pocket—or your audience's—but rather by getting your readers to engage with your SocialVibe gadget).<br /> <br /> Adding the gadget is easy. Here's the low-down on how you can use your blog to make a big impact:<br /> <br /> <b><u>Step 1 - Add the Gadget</u></b><br /> <br /> From your Blogger dashboard, click the Layout tab. Then, click the Add a Gadget link and click on "Featured", then select SocialVibe. (If you don't see it in the Featured gallery, follow <a href="//www.blogger.com/add-gadget?url=http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget">this link</a>, or click "Add your own". In the textbox, add the URL <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget" style="color: #114170; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget</a>.)<br /> <br /> <b><u>Step 2 - Configure Gadget</u></b><br /> Here's the fun part. Choose the cause you want to support from the drop-down list. If you want to customize the size and title, you can do that here as well, and you'll see a preview of your gadget underneath. When you're satisfied, click Save.<br /> <br /> Congratulations, your gadget has now been added to your blog! Your readers can help you earn for your cause by engaging with your gadget, and will even have the chance to leave you comments and add a SocialVibe gadget to their own blog.<br /> <br /> The yellow overlay you see on your gadget is only viewable by you, the blog owner. Click on the link in the overlay to create a <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/" style="color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">SocialVibe.com</a> account and earn even more charity donations by adding it to other networks such as <a href="http://apps.new.facebook.com/socialvibe" style="color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">Facebook</a>, MySpace or WordPress.<br /> <br /> With SocialVibe, the Blogger community can pool our individual influences to create positive change in the world. Never before has making a positive social impact online been this easy.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Guest Post<br /> by Joe Marchese, <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/">SocialVibe</a> CEO<br /> <br /> In honor of Blogger's 10th anniversary, we are excited to announce that you can now use your blogs to create positive, measurable social change. By adding the SocialVibe gadget to your blog, you'll be turning brand dollars into real charitable donations for the cause of your choice. The World Wildlife Foundation, Nature Conservancy, DonorsChoose, Invisible Children, and Charity:Water are just a few of the great charities you can support on Blogger.<br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidn4XAQQeo1AQ8MlSrHcHMH4Z0gil_ZlgmglBtqmOn2OCpY0fRYYBkq4RecN_AmNxJTt3ZdQ_zNLeUefwQn9MYsSjUouzBn2KJ5t0KjlTk-U2MCd4Dfhja77aFMgeY-yqCRBk/s1600-h/socialvibe.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidn4XAQQeo1AQ8MlSrHcHMH4Z0gil_ZlgmglBtqmOn2OCpY0fRYYBkq4RecN_AmNxJTt3ZdQ_zNLeUefwQn9MYsSjUouzBn2KJ5t0KjlTk-U2MCd4Dfhja77aFMgeY-yqCRBk/s320/socialvibe.png" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" width="175" /></a><br /> Once you install the SocialVibe sidebar gadget on your blog, money will be earned for charities every time readers engage with the gadget (e.g. rating a Showtime video clip). You can switch your cause and sponsor as often as you like, and receive regular updates from your charity about goal progress and impact. Thus far, SocialVibe has been able to raise over $500,000 for charities, and we know the Blogger community will be able to significantly increase this amount. In fact, we are setting a goal for the community to raise $50,000 before the end of the year (and remember, you don't raise money by taking money out of your pocket—or your audience's—but rather by getting your readers to engage with your SocialVibe gadget).<br /> <br /> Adding the gadget is easy. Here's the low-down on how you can use your blog to make a big impact:<br /> <br /> <b><u>Step 1 - Add the Gadget</u></b><br /> <br /> From your Blogger dashboard, click the Layout tab. Then, click the Add a Gadget link and click on "Featured", then select SocialVibe. (If you don't see it in the Featured gallery, follow <a href="//www.blogger.com/add-gadget?url=http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget">this link</a>, or click "Add your own". In the textbox, add the URL <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget" style="color: #114170; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">http://www.socialvibe.com/s/blogger/gadget</a>.)<br /> <br /> <b><u>Step 2 - Configure Gadget</u></b><br /> Here's the fun part. Choose the cause you want to support from the drop-down list. If you want to customize the size and title, you can do that here as well, and you'll see a preview of your gadget underneath. When you're satisfied, click Save.<br /> <br /> Congratulations, your gadget has now been added to your blog! Your readers can help you earn for your cause by engaging with your gadget, and will even have the chance to leave you comments and add a SocialVibe gadget to their own blog.<br /> <br /> The yellow overlay you see on your gadget is only viewable by you, the blog owner. Click on the link in the overlay to create a <a href="http://www.socialvibe.com/" style="color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">SocialVibe.com</a> account and earn even more charity donations by adding it to other networks such as <a href="http://apps.new.facebook.com/socialvibe" style="color: #0066cc; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;">Facebook</a>, MySpace or WordPress.<br /> <br /> With SocialVibe, the Blogger community can pool our individual influences to create positive change in the world. Never before has making a positive social impact online been this easy.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Earn Charity Donations on Blogger with SocialVibe&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/earn-charity-donations-on-blogger-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/earn-charity-donations-on-blogger-with.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='5622502049778196975' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/theres-app-for-that.html' itemprop='url' title='There's an app for that!'> There's an app for that! </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> September 02, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeCOcL8wiwCXOoCH7j0UmaUTX7ZQlFo-vH9En421uswf_E5VQyiddFinOHId84MEfVMxetAOZjMVHLmXoYaUXB_u_2QbVxwL6ftmjizsvX9_DdMAKy0I80pKnEkFg8Ns5UHX-/s1600-h/IMG_0121.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeCOcL8wiwCXOoCH7j0UmaUTX7ZQlFo-vH9En421uswf_E5VQyiddFinOHId84MEfVMxetAOZjMVHLmXoYaUXB_u_2QbVxwL6ftmjizsvX9_DdMAKy0I80pKnEkFg8Ns5UHX-/s200/IMG_0121.PNG" /></a></div>We're very happy to announce today that Blogger now has a home on the iPhone. The team behind <a href="http://blogpress.coollittlethings.com/">BlogPress</a> (a popular app already available in the iPhone App Store) decided to build a free version of BlogPress just for Blogger users to celebrate Blogger's 10th birthday. <a href="http://blogpress.coollittlethings.com/?p=lite">BlogPress Lite</a> packs many of the great Blogger features you have come to know into a simple yet powerful mobile application for blogging on the go.<br /> <br /> Rich-text WYSIWYG editing, image uploads, labels, configurable settings, and auto-save are among the many features that are part of BlogPress Lite, as well as a handful of other optimizations for the iPhone experience. <b>Landscape editing</b> mode is supported and will feel very familiar for iPhone users, and blog posts are automatically saved when you have an incoming call—you won't have to ever worry about losing a post.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SHBiEGF4_2MnuUCBssL6cBkhu3Iwz8wm2tx1YSx_DeRiLBG4zICP94dOP5JVyDiTCFRf0t2M5PSjQczVVGxck3566hQnNR_zokVYI7G2ZQoIGRWKApGzyntpZ2a4guUcRvxu/s1600-h/IMG_0125.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SHBiEGF4_2MnuUCBssL6cBkhu3Iwz8wm2tx1YSx_DeRiLBG4zICP94dOP5JVyDiTCFRf0t2M5PSjQczVVGxck3566hQnNR_zokVYI7G2ZQoIGRWKApGzyntpZ2a4guUcRvxu/s320/IMG_0125.PNG" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We're grateful to the team at InfoThinker for adding to the birthday "party." The app has been submitted to the App Store and should be available shortly. (We'll update this post when we see it.)<br /> <br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeCOcL8wiwCXOoCH7j0UmaUTX7ZQlFo-vH9En421uswf_E5VQyiddFinOHId84MEfVMxetAOZjMVHLmXoYaUXB_u_2QbVxwL6ftmjizsvX9_DdMAKy0I80pKnEkFg8Ns5UHX-/s1600-h/IMG_0121.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeCOcL8wiwCXOoCH7j0UmaUTX7ZQlFo-vH9En421uswf_E5VQyiddFinOHId84MEfVMxetAOZjMVHLmXoYaUXB_u_2QbVxwL6ftmjizsvX9_DdMAKy0I80pKnEkFg8Ns5UHX-/s200/IMG_0121.PNG" /></a></div>We're very happy to announce today that Blogger now has a home on the iPhone. The team behind <a href="http://blogpress.coollittlethings.com/">BlogPress</a> (a popular app already available in the iPhone App Store) decided to build a free version of BlogPress just for Blogger users to celebrate Blogger's 10th birthday. <a href="http://blogpress.coollittlethings.com/?p=lite">BlogPress Lite</a> packs many of the great Blogger features you have come to know into a simple yet powerful mobile application for blogging on the go.<br /> <br /> Rich-text WYSIWYG editing, image uploads, labels, configurable settings, and auto-save are among the many features that are part of BlogPress Lite, as well as a handful of other optimizations for the iPhone experience. <b>Landscape editing</b> mode is supported and will feel very familiar for iPhone users, and blog posts are automatically saved when you have an incoming call—you won't have to ever worry about losing a post.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SHBiEGF4_2MnuUCBssL6cBkhu3Iwz8wm2tx1YSx_DeRiLBG4zICP94dOP5JVyDiTCFRf0t2M5PSjQczVVGxck3566hQnNR_zokVYI7G2ZQoIGRWKApGzyntpZ2a4guUcRvxu/s1600-h/IMG_0125.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SHBiEGF4_2MnuUCBssL6cBkhu3Iwz8wm2tx1YSx_DeRiLBG4zICP94dOP5JVyDiTCFRf0t2M5PSjQczVVGxck3566hQnNR_zokVYI7G2ZQoIGRWKApGzyntpZ2a4guUcRvxu/s320/IMG_0125.PNG" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>We're grateful to the team at InfoThinker for adding to the birthday "party." The app has been submitted to the App Store and should be available shortly. (We'll update this post when we see it.)<br /> <br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px;">This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</span> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:There's an app for that!&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/theres-app-for-that.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/09/theres-app-for-that.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6235034569049062620' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/share-from-nav-bar.html' itemprop='url' title='Share from Nav Bar'> Share from Nav Bar </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 28, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger (Mountain View, CA) <br /> <br /> It's fitting that our newest birthday present was <a href="http://twitter.com/Blogger/status/3587341723" id="gc9r" title="announced first on Twitter">announced first on Twitter</a>. Starting yesterday, the <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42269" id="wt4l" title="Blogger Navbar">Blogger Navbar</a> includes a new button: "Share."<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWML0Eac_KyewD0E8NU83ecUCdZx7T5xC0PNyP0IfQLTzOhmftqbUOdoJjVE0yy16E_jcsAd7IKr8fe0yHv4ldjWUHdOXwD5kmE09Bvnh3KxkVcyp902FKNKcX6KmKu4or5rQ/s1600-h/share.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWML0Eac_KyewD0E8NU83ecUCdZx7T5xC0PNyP0IfQLTzOhmftqbUOdoJjVE0yy16E_jcsAd7IKr8fe0yHv4ldjWUHdOXwD5kmE09Bvnh3KxkVcyp902FKNKcX6KmKu4or5rQ/s400/share.png" /></a></center><br /> <br /> When your readers are on your blog's home page, they can click "Share" to post the blog's URL to Twitter, Facebook, or Google Reader. If they navigate directly to an individual blog post, clicking "Share" in the navbar also lets them share the post by email.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFU6aI4XFxotZAwNFzSmor66L7DtFyUJjGgkRf7sNXWcnNrO9KSxlfc3v9DtfvyThwZj_kt8AbNGm9VOzTS-5e3sHObjR3Lca8HDHtykUuZCR1v2o2fnCDeKhOPjol_G1l0UL/s1600-h/sharepopup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFU6aI4XFxotZAwNFzSmor66L7DtFyUJjGgkRf7sNXWcnNrO9KSxlfc3v9DtfvyThwZj_kt8AbNGm9VOzTS-5e3sHObjR3Lca8HDHtykUuZCR1v2o2fnCDeKhOPjol_G1l0UL/s320/sharepopup.png" /></a></center><br /> <br /> We've already seen some nice adoption of this new feature and hope this helps you build out your audience and share your story with the world. Here's a fun hack: each URL that gets shared has a specific parameter appended (?spref=nn, where fb=Facebook, tw=Twitter, and gr=Google Reader). If you're using Google Analytics to measure traffic on your blog, you can search for those strings to see how much traffic you're getting from each source.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, if you're interested in seeing which blogs people are sharing, head on over to Twitter search and <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spref%3Dtw" id="zgwh" title="you can watch as people share blogs they like">you can watch as people share blogs and posts that they like</a>. Don't forget to <a href="http://twitter.com/Blogger" id="hvkx" title="follow us on Twitter">follow us on Twitter</a> while you're there!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger (Mountain View, CA) <br /> <br /> It's fitting that our newest birthday present was <a href="http://twitter.com/Blogger/status/3587341723" id="gc9r" title="announced first on Twitter">announced first on Twitter</a>. Starting yesterday, the <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42269" id="wt4l" title="Blogger Navbar">Blogger Navbar</a> includes a new button: "Share."<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWML0Eac_KyewD0E8NU83ecUCdZx7T5xC0PNyP0IfQLTzOhmftqbUOdoJjVE0yy16E_jcsAd7IKr8fe0yHv4ldjWUHdOXwD5kmE09Bvnh3KxkVcyp902FKNKcX6KmKu4or5rQ/s1600-h/share.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvWML0Eac_KyewD0E8NU83ecUCdZx7T5xC0PNyP0IfQLTzOhmftqbUOdoJjVE0yy16E_jcsAd7IKr8fe0yHv4ldjWUHdOXwD5kmE09Bvnh3KxkVcyp902FKNKcX6KmKu4or5rQ/s400/share.png" /></a></center><br /> <br /> When your readers are on your blog's home page, they can click "Share" to post the blog's URL to Twitter, Facebook, or Google Reader. If they navigate directly to an individual blog post, clicking "Share" in the navbar also lets them share the post by email.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFU6aI4XFxotZAwNFzSmor66L7DtFyUJjGgkRf7sNXWcnNrO9KSxlfc3v9DtfvyThwZj_kt8AbNGm9VOzTS-5e3sHObjR3Lca8HDHtykUuZCR1v2o2fnCDeKhOPjol_G1l0UL/s1600-h/sharepopup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFU6aI4XFxotZAwNFzSmor66L7DtFyUJjGgkRf7sNXWcnNrO9KSxlfc3v9DtfvyThwZj_kt8AbNGm9VOzTS-5e3sHObjR3Lca8HDHtykUuZCR1v2o2fnCDeKhOPjol_G1l0UL/s320/sharepopup.png" /></a></center><br /> <br /> We've already seen some nice adoption of this new feature and hope this helps you build out your audience and share your story with the world. Here's a fun hack: each URL that gets shared has a specific parameter appended (?spref=nn, where fb=Facebook, tw=Twitter, and gr=Google Reader). If you're using Google Analytics to measure traffic on your blog, you can search for those strings to see how much traffic you're getting from each source.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, if you're interested in seeing which blogs people are sharing, head on over to Twitter search and <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=spref%3Dtw" id="zgwh" title="you can watch as people share blogs they like">you can watch as people share blogs and posts that they like</a>. Don't forget to <a href="http://twitter.com/Blogger" id="hvkx" title="follow us on Twitter">follow us on Twitter</a> while you're there!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="szva" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Share from Nav Bar&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/share-from-nav-bar.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/share-from-nav-bar.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='8204240057860705165' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/let-music-play.html' itemprop='url' title='Let the Music Play'> Let the Music Play </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 26, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> Earlier this year, a number of our users <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-05/music/google-39-s-new-killer-app-why-are-music-bloggers-39-posts-disappearing-and-who-is-deleting-them/all" id="wt.y" style="color: #551a8b;" title="complained about their experience">complained about their experience</a> on the receiving end of a DMCA complaint. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/kafka-in-bloggerland-the-mysterious-world-of-the-dmca.ars" id="iliw" style="color: #551a8b;" title="Much speculation">Much commentary</a> at the time focused on claims that we were removing blog posts at the behest of music labels, that we were not notifying users, and that we weren't providing users with any recourse if they were linking to the music with permission. Though <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-05/music/google-39-s-new-killer-app-why-are-music-bloggers-39-posts-disappearing-and-who-is-deleting-them/all" id="injc" style="color: #551a8b;" title="we noted at the time">we noted at the time</a> that we hadn't changed anything and were still following our documented policy, we realized that there was room for improvement. Over the next several months, we talked with the <a href="http://www.eff.org/" id="pimk" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/" id="uyos" title="ChillingEffects.org">ChillingEffects.org</a>, and reached out to a number of users to find out what they'd like to see in our policy moving forward. We're happy to make those changes our latest birthday present for our users. <br /> <br /> First, a quick review: <a href="//www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html" id="rujb" style="color: #551a8b;" title="the DMCA">the DMCA</a> is a U.S. law that says that a copyright holder (a music label, for example) can notify services like Blogger if they see cases where their content is being used without permission. Once we're notified by the music label and we believe the claim to be valid, we are then obligated to remove the content—otherwise we could be found liable for its continued use. Up until today, when we received a DMCA complaint, we would send an e-mail to the owner of the blog, forward a copy of the complaint (usually a fax) to ChillingEffects.org (more about Chilling Effects <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/about" id="xbi7" title="here">here</a>), and delete the post.<br /> <br /> There were several problems: first, some of our bloggers hadn't updated their e-mail addresses in years (<a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="xubg" style="color: #551a8b;" title="Blogger's been around a while!">Blogger's been around a while!</a>). Second, ChillingEffects.org needed to review the faxes we sent to ensure that they weren't inadvertently publishing personal info, sometimes causing lengthy delays in the publication of the complaint. This meant that the blogger couldn't see the substance of the complaint—often for months. Finally, the post was gone! Posts that contained dozens, even hundreds, of links were removed from the Internet because of one link, and often the blogger didn't know the link wasn't acceptable.<br /> <br /> Starting today, we've changed how we handle these situations:<br /> <br /> <ul id="5qzrm"><li id="6qzrm"><b id="qgrj">DMCA Complaints are handled via a web form</b>. <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=blogger_dmca_infringment" id="hohv" style="color: #551a8b;" title="This form">This form</a> makes data intake easier, and makes it possible for us to share information with ChillingEffects.org without passing along personally identifiable information. It also allows us to notify affected bloggers more efficiently, as we provide information on not only the blog post in question but also the actual link(s) at issue.</li> <li id="ryee"><b id="0qgrj">Complaints are sent to ChillingEffects.org automatically</b>. ChillingEffects.org will have a copy of the complaint soon after Blogger receives it, making it possible for the blogger to find the complaint by <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/search/search.cgi" id="i52g" style="color: #551a8b;" title="searching for their URL">searching for their blog's URL</a> at ChillingEffects.org.</li> <li id="w:j2"><b id="m-cx">Blogger notifies affected users through their dashboard as well as by e-mail</b>. While we hope all of our users keep their e-mail addresses current so we can notify them in case there's anything important (hint, hint), we also went further by putting a big status message at the top of their dashboard to let them know about the DMCA complaint.</li> <li id="yf2v"><b id="c3:q">Blog posts are reset to draft status and are not deleted</b>. Now that users have the info they need to know specifically what the complaint was about, they can edit their post (found in their blog's dashboard status message, as well as by searching for posts in "draft" status) to remove the offending content and republish the post.</li> </ul>We realize this birthday present isn't for everyone—we'd hope most of you never receive a complaint. But music bloggers are a large segment of our users—and we know that for those who've received one or more DMCA complaints in the past, this may have been a frustrating experience. Please take care to remove the offending content once notified of the complaint—once you do, you can republish the original post so your audience will continue to have access to the other content contained in the post. <br /> <br /> This was a cross-team collaboration between our legal, policy and engineering groups, and on behalf of everyone who helped make this change possible: happy birthday! <br /> <br /> Rick Klau, Blogger Product Manager<br /> Alice Wu, Google Legal Department<br /> Steven Chen, Google Policy Team<br /> Saurav Shah, Blogger Engineering Team<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="5vgas" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> Earlier this year, a number of our users <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-05/music/google-39-s-new-killer-app-why-are-music-bloggers-39-posts-disappearing-and-who-is-deleting-them/all" id="wt.y" style="color: #551a8b;" title="complained about their experience">complained about their experience</a> on the receiving end of a DMCA complaint. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/kafka-in-bloggerland-the-mysterious-world-of-the-dmca.ars" id="iliw" style="color: #551a8b;" title="Much speculation">Much commentary</a> at the time focused on claims that we were removing blog posts at the behest of music labels, that we were not notifying users, and that we weren't providing users with any recourse if they were linking to the music with permission. Though <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-05/music/google-39-s-new-killer-app-why-are-music-bloggers-39-posts-disappearing-and-who-is-deleting-them/all" id="injc" style="color: #551a8b;" title="we noted at the time">we noted at the time</a> that we hadn't changed anything and were still following our documented policy, we realized that there was room for improvement. Over the next several months, we talked with the <a href="http://www.eff.org/" id="pimk" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/" id="uyos" title="ChillingEffects.org">ChillingEffects.org</a>, and reached out to a number of users to find out what they'd like to see in our policy moving forward. We're happy to make those changes our latest birthday present for our users. <br /> <br /> First, a quick review: <a href="//www.google.com/blogger_dmca.html" id="rujb" style="color: #551a8b;" title="the DMCA">the DMCA</a> is a U.S. law that says that a copyright holder (a music label, for example) can notify services like Blogger if they see cases where their content is being used without permission. Once we're notified by the music label and we believe the claim to be valid, we are then obligated to remove the content—otherwise we could be found liable for its continued use. Up until today, when we received a DMCA complaint, we would send an e-mail to the owner of the blog, forward a copy of the complaint (usually a fax) to ChillingEffects.org (more about Chilling Effects <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/about" id="xbi7" title="here">here</a>), and delete the post.<br /> <br /> There were several problems: first, some of our bloggers hadn't updated their e-mail addresses in years (<a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="xubg" style="color: #551a8b;" title="Blogger's been around a while!">Blogger's been around a while!</a>). Second, ChillingEffects.org needed to review the faxes we sent to ensure that they weren't inadvertently publishing personal info, sometimes causing lengthy delays in the publication of the complaint. This meant that the blogger couldn't see the substance of the complaint—often for months. Finally, the post was gone! Posts that contained dozens, even hundreds, of links were removed from the Internet because of one link, and often the blogger didn't know the link wasn't acceptable.<br /> <br /> Starting today, we've changed how we handle these situations:<br /> <br /> <ul id="5qzrm"><li id="6qzrm"><b id="qgrj">DMCA Complaints are handled via a web form</b>. <a href="//www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=blogger_dmca_infringment" id="hohv" style="color: #551a8b;" title="This form">This form</a> makes data intake easier, and makes it possible for us to share information with ChillingEffects.org without passing along personally identifiable information. It also allows us to notify affected bloggers more efficiently, as we provide information on not only the blog post in question but also the actual link(s) at issue.</li> <li id="ryee"><b id="0qgrj">Complaints are sent to ChillingEffects.org automatically</b>. ChillingEffects.org will have a copy of the complaint soon after Blogger receives it, making it possible for the blogger to find the complaint by <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/search/search.cgi" id="i52g" style="color: #551a8b;" title="searching for their URL">searching for their blog's URL</a> at ChillingEffects.org.</li> <li id="w:j2"><b id="m-cx">Blogger notifies affected users through their dashboard as well as by e-mail</b>. While we hope all of our users keep their e-mail addresses current so we can notify them in case there's anything important (hint, hint), we also went further by putting a big status message at the top of their dashboard to let them know about the DMCA complaint.</li> <li id="yf2v"><b id="c3:q">Blog posts are reset to draft status and are not deleted</b>. Now that users have the info they need to know specifically what the complaint was about, they can edit their post (found in their blog's dashboard status message, as well as by searching for posts in "draft" status) to remove the offending content and republish the post.</li> </ul>We realize this birthday present isn't for everyone—we'd hope most of you never receive a complaint. But music bloggers are a large segment of our users—and we know that for those who've received one or more DMCA complaints in the past, this may have been a frustrating experience. Please take care to remove the offending content once notified of the complaint—once you do, you can republish the original post so your audience will continue to have access to the other content contained in the post. <br /> <br /> This was a cross-team collaboration between our legal, policy and engineering groups, and on behalf of everyone who helped make this change possible: happy birthday! <br /> <br /> Rick Klau, Blogger Product Manager<br /> Alice Wu, Google Legal Department<br /> Steven Chen, Google Policy Team<br /> Saurav Shah, Blogger Engineering Team<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="5vgas" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Let the Music Play&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/let-music-play.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/let-music-play.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2014064750854904093' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/partly-cloudy-chance-of-labels.html' itemprop='url' title='Partly cloudy, chance of labels'> Partly cloudy, chance of labels </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 25, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer, Blogger (Krakow, Poland)<br /> <br /> In April, we <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/04/we-want-to-hear-from-you.html" id="gkxc" style="color: #551a8b;" title="announced">announced</a> that we wanted to hear from you about <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=e828&t=ebf1" id="d0:4" style="color: #551a8b;" title="missing features">your wish list for features</a> in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out two enhancements to the label gadget.<br /> <br /> <b>Label Cloud</b><br /> <br /> Previously, the label gadget showed a list of labels—and by far the most requested enhancement was to present the labels as a "cloud" instead of as a bulleted list. That's now supported in the gadget directly:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s1600-h/label1-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343049382956162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s320/label1-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 187px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s1600-h/label1-1.jpg"></a> Once enabled, the more popular labels appear in a bigger font than the less popular labels:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPElQfupkXock8DF0pSYgTMgfa6cYllaPh4pvFu4RXXj-LAYJ4VxIQcRimqgvTX0luZUEL71Fku7wTRx3ucp7MQIhpGRgo11JIWvjDn6RuqcNSIuivhmBQLLaAm3yw82wSxHL/s1600-h/label2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343294645160146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPElQfupkXock8DF0pSYgTMgfa6cYllaPh4pvFu4RXXj-LAYJ4VxIQcRimqgvTX0luZUEL71Fku7wTRx3ucp7MQIhpGRgo11JIWvjDn6RuqcNSIuivhmBQLLaAm3yw82wSxHL/s320/label2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 120px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 254px;" /></a><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Selected Labels</span><br /> <br /> If you've been on Blogger for a while, you might have more labels than you know what to do with. Don't want to show all of your labels in the widget? No problem: go to the label gadget settings and choose "Selected labels." You will be able to select a subset of labels to be displayed in the widget:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJf5RGvh6z_R8AbgLia7R99lFJfNhqOFmlANvnZx4T1pwdVTi6emRMOt3YNWs4mc8_0AeH2-pi4dwRMgTTprTGYvx91Jni8p4dbo4u7xDWsC6KnjnIWlJxJ4jGWjTmn_R94pY_/s1600-h/label3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343676152119666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJf5RGvh6z_R8AbgLia7R99lFJfNhqOFmlANvnZx4T1pwdVTi6emRMOt3YNWs4mc8_0AeH2-pi4dwRMgTTprTGYvx91Jni8p4dbo4u7xDWsC6KnjnIWlJxJ4jGWjTmn_R94pY_/s320/label3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 311px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 279px;" /></a><br /> We hope you like it!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of </i><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;"><i>Blogger's 10th birthday</i></a><i>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Wiktor Gworek, Software Engineer, Blogger (Krakow, Poland)<br /> <br /> In April, we <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/04/we-want-to-hear-from-you.html" id="gkxc" style="color: #551a8b;" title="announced">announced</a> that we wanted to hear from you about <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=e828&t=ebf1" id="d0:4" style="color: #551a8b;" title="missing features">your wish list for features</a> in Blogger. Many of you said that the label gadget should be more flexible. Today we are rolling out two enhancements to the label gadget.<br /> <br /> <b>Label Cloud</b><br /> <br /> Previously, the label gadget showed a list of labels—and by far the most requested enhancement was to present the labels as a "cloud" instead of as a bulleted list. That's now supported in the gadget directly:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s1600-h/label1-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343049382956162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s320/label1-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 187px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Pc1l5G_iK2p1pJeTMiklB0PAzypO31tQbB8ozPC8bQNTlmqlqb336KhLT8a6cSbZ7_WCstAbT8n6nKWG_k7Kxmbp5Z19D3LN8yn8pyUkCkJF-vjm6H0fli9tDN2RwKKSWKb0/s1600-h/label1-1.jpg"></a> Once enabled, the more popular labels appear in a bigger font than the less popular labels:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPElQfupkXock8DF0pSYgTMgfa6cYllaPh4pvFu4RXXj-LAYJ4VxIQcRimqgvTX0luZUEL71Fku7wTRx3ucp7MQIhpGRgo11JIWvjDn6RuqcNSIuivhmBQLLaAm3yw82wSxHL/s1600-h/label2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343294645160146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPElQfupkXock8DF0pSYgTMgfa6cYllaPh4pvFu4RXXj-LAYJ4VxIQcRimqgvTX0luZUEL71Fku7wTRx3ucp7MQIhpGRgo11JIWvjDn6RuqcNSIuivhmBQLLaAm3yw82wSxHL/s320/label2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 120px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 254px;" /></a><br /> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Selected Labels</span><br /> <br /> If you've been on Blogger for a while, you might have more labels than you know what to do with. Don't want to show all of your labels in the widget? No problem: go to the label gadget settings and choose "Selected labels." You will be able to select a subset of labels to be displayed in the widget:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJf5RGvh6z_R8AbgLia7R99lFJfNhqOFmlANvnZx4T1pwdVTi6emRMOt3YNWs4mc8_0AeH2-pi4dwRMgTTprTGYvx91Jni8p4dbo4u7xDWsC6KnjnIWlJxJ4jGWjTmn_R94pY_/s1600-h/label3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371343676152119666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJf5RGvh6z_R8AbgLia7R99lFJfNhqOFmlANvnZx4T1pwdVTi6emRMOt3YNWs4mc8_0AeH2-pi4dwRMgTTprTGYvx91Jni8p4dbo4u7xDWsC6KnjnIWlJxJ4jGWjTmn_R94pY_/s320/label3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 311px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 279px;" /></a><br /> We hope you like it!<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of </i><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;"><i>Blogger's 10th birthday</i></a><i>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Partly cloudy, chance of labels&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/partly-cloudy-chance-of-labels.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/partly-cloudy-chance-of-labels.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2453574054188528076' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/sending-blogger-some-birthday-cheer.html' itemprop='url' title='Sending Blogger some Birthday Cheer'> Sending Blogger some Birthday Cheer </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 20, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> by Brian Shih, Google Reader Team<br /> <br /> If you use Google Reader to keep track of all the interesting Blogger blogs you're <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/08/get-your-blogger-following-fix-in.html" id="w0.e" title="following">following</a>, you might have run across something you really wanted to share on your blog. With Reader's <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/flurry-of-features-for-feed-readers.html" id="glfj" title="new Send To feature">new Send To feature</a>, we've made it easier than ever to do this. Just head over to Reader's <a href="//www.google.com/reader/settings?display=item-links" id="ao4m" title="settings page">settings page</a> and enable Blogger from the list of services:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMuItRfrMK0zuAsN_HFR7seQhdLy6cRRXt4NZhDrclnYkN5huHVJcoCF2nnp50M4njHu5frcschtjJYCm4zm2NV3Xg2Qds4mW5Kn2q9BfQAjLkj45eVnoC3bQluwZpc-lQHoooQ/s1600/settings.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMuItRfrMK0zuAsN_HFR7seQhdLy6cRRXt4NZhDrclnYkN5huHVJcoCF2nnp50M4njHu5frcschtjJYCm4zm2NV3Xg2Qds4mW5Kn2q9BfQAjLkj45eVnoC3bQluwZpc-lQHoooQ/s320/settings.png" /></a><br /> <br /> Now, when you want to send a post to Blogger, simply click the "Send to" button and choose Blogger. If you're into keyboard shortcuts, "shift-t" will do the same. We'll send you over to Blogger with everything you need to write about the post. And that's it! We hope this makes it easier for you to blog about things you read in Reader - if you have feedback, please head over to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-help">our help group</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/googlereader">Twitter</a>, or <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/google/products/google_google_reader">Get Satisfaction</a>.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> by Brian Shih, Google Reader Team<br /> <br /> If you use Google Reader to keep track of all the interesting Blogger blogs you're <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/08/get-your-blogger-following-fix-in.html" id="w0.e" title="following">following</a>, you might have run across something you really wanted to share on your blog. With Reader's <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/flurry-of-features-for-feed-readers.html" id="glfj" title="new Send To feature">new Send To feature</a>, we've made it easier than ever to do this. Just head over to Reader's <a href="//www.google.com/reader/settings?display=item-links" id="ao4m" title="settings page">settings page</a> and enable Blogger from the list of services:<br /> <br /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMuItRfrMK0zuAsN_HFR7seQhdLy6cRRXt4NZhDrclnYkN5huHVJcoCF2nnp50M4njHu5frcschtjJYCm4zm2NV3Xg2Qds4mW5Kn2q9BfQAjLkj45eVnoC3bQluwZpc-lQHoooQ/s1600/settings.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfMuItRfrMK0zuAsN_HFR7seQhdLy6cRRXt4NZhDrclnYkN5huHVJcoCF2nnp50M4njHu5frcschtjJYCm4zm2NV3Xg2Qds4mW5Kn2q9BfQAjLkj45eVnoC3bQluwZpc-lQHoooQ/s320/settings.png" /></a><br /> <br /> Now, when you want to send a post to Blogger, simply click the "Send to" button and choose Blogger. If you're into keyboard shortcuts, "shift-t" will do the same. We'll send you over to Blogger with everything you need to write about the post. And that's it! We hope this makes it easier for you to blog about things you read in Reader - if you have feedback, please head over to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-help">our help group</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/googlereader">Twitter</a>, or <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/google/products/google_google_reader">Get Satisfaction</a>.<br /> <br /> <i>This is one of many features announced as part of <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Blogger's 10th birthday</a>. Happy Birthday!</i> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Sending Blogger some Birthday Cheer&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/sending-blogger-some-birthday-cheer.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/sending-blogger-some-birthday-cheer.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1582940574099391641' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html' itemprop='url' title='Blogger is turning 10'> Blogger is turning 10 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> A few months ago we mentioned that <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="xo4j" title="Blogger was turning 10 years old">Blogger was turning 10 years old</a> later this year. That day is almost upon us <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> just six days away in fact <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> and we've been hard at work trying to think about what we could give you to celebrate.<br /> <br /> Wait, what? What <i id="zu3i">we</i> could give <i id="9xiu5">you</i>? That's right. This is our birthday <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> but we're celebrating <i>your</i> contributions over the years. Over the past decade, millions of people around the world have made Blogger what it is today: a vibrant community of real people telling their stories. When we asked you to tell us your Blogger story, you responded: <a href="http://archana.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-blogs-most-ardent-fan.html" id="g.3y" title="connected with far away family">you connected with far away family</a>, <a href="http://whatakerfuffle.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-10th-birthday-blogger.html" id="ls_a" title="shared your art">shared your art</a>, <a href="http://profissaojornalista.blogspot.com/2009/06/agosto-10-anos-de-blogger-setembro-10.html" id="z:ok" title="grew up">grew up</a>, <a href="http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2009/06/story-of-blog.html" id="hn42" title="demonstrated your expertise in an emerging area of research">demonstrated your expertise in an emerging area of research</a>, <a href="http://stepfamilyfromthehood.blogspot.com/2009/06/living-in-purpose-via-blogger.html" id="w7:7" title="overcome childhood adversity">overcome childhood adversity</a>, <a href="http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-and-me-three-year-journey.html" id="iegg" title="met authors and poets you admire">met authors and poets you admire</a>, <a href="http://fortresslinna.blogspot.com/2009/06/thank-you-blogger.html" id="x6py" title="coped with an illness">coped with an illness</a>, <a href="http://micrimas.blogspot.com/2009/07/isolation-and-blogger-gratitude.html" id="b:m4" title="became a parent">became a parent</a>, <a href="http://indiagestao.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-blogger-experience.html" id="j45o" title="learned a new culture">learned a new culture</a>, <a href="http://sunshinemaniac.blogspot.com/2009/06/me-happy-blogger.html" id="r7hd" title="struggled with your parents' divorc">struggled with your parents' divorce</a>, <a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/2009/07/messages-in-bottles.html" id="c8nn" title="placed digital messages in virtual bottles">placed digital messages in virtual bottles</a>, <a href="http://www.consumingexperience.com/2009/08/how-blogger-changed-my-life-my-new.html" id="qcdn" title="helped people fix their cell phones">helped people fix their cell phones</a>, <a href="http://whatplanetareyoulivingon.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-birthday-blog-spot.html" id="sfxx" title="wrote a novel">wrote a novel</a>. You even <a href="http://girlaboutbusiness.blogspot.com/2009/07/loves-blogger.html" id="kopn" title="made the Inaugural Blogging Team at school">made the inaugural blogging team at school</a>, and while there <a href="http://ok-lah.blogspot.com/2009/07/blogger-and-i.html" id="m8.z" title="you're working on your PhD on consumer trends towards blogs">you're working on your PhD on consumer trends towards blogs</a>. There are millions of such stories <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> and they grow by the day.<br /> <br /> As we turn ten, we wanted to give you some presents to commemorate this milestone and thank you for letting us be part of your story. Over the next several weeks we will be releasing a number of new features on Blogger. Some presents are because <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=e828" id="etk1" title="you asked for them this spring">you asked for them this spring</a>. Other presents are because they meant a lot to us. And some are because our friends (both inside and outside of Google) wanted to chip in and give you something. In short, it's a lot like a real birthday: you won't necessarily want or need every present that you get, but keep in mind: it's the thought that counts!<br /> <br /> We're excited to share this milestone with you. Stay tuned, the next several weeks will be a lot of fun! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> A few months ago we mentioned that <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html" id="xo4j" title="Blogger was turning 10 years old">Blogger was turning 10 years old</a> later this year. That day is almost upon us <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> just six days away in fact <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> and we've been hard at work trying to think about what we could give you to celebrate.<br /> <br /> Wait, what? What <i id="zu3i">we</i> could give <i id="9xiu5">you</i>? That's right. This is our birthday <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> but we're celebrating <i>your</i> contributions over the years. Over the past decade, millions of people around the world have made Blogger what it is today: a vibrant community of real people telling their stories. When we asked you to tell us your Blogger story, you responded: <a href="http://archana.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-blogs-most-ardent-fan.html" id="g.3y" title="connected with far away family">you connected with far away family</a>, <a href="http://whatakerfuffle.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-10th-birthday-blogger.html" id="ls_a" title="shared your art">shared your art</a>, <a href="http://profissaojornalista.blogspot.com/2009/06/agosto-10-anos-de-blogger-setembro-10.html" id="z:ok" title="grew up">grew up</a>, <a href="http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2009/06/story-of-blog.html" id="hn42" title="demonstrated your expertise in an emerging area of research">demonstrated your expertise in an emerging area of research</a>, <a href="http://stepfamilyfromthehood.blogspot.com/2009/06/living-in-purpose-via-blogger.html" id="w7:7" title="overcome childhood adversity">overcome childhood adversity</a>, <a href="http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-and-me-three-year-journey.html" id="iegg" title="met authors and poets you admire">met authors and poets you admire</a>, <a href="http://fortresslinna.blogspot.com/2009/06/thank-you-blogger.html" id="x6py" title="coped with an illness">coped with an illness</a>, <a href="http://micrimas.blogspot.com/2009/07/isolation-and-blogger-gratitude.html" id="b:m4" title="became a parent">became a parent</a>, <a href="http://indiagestao.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-blogger-experience.html" id="j45o" title="learned a new culture">learned a new culture</a>, <a href="http://sunshinemaniac.blogspot.com/2009/06/me-happy-blogger.html" id="r7hd" title="struggled with your parents' divorc">struggled with your parents' divorce</a>, <a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/2009/07/messages-in-bottles.html" id="c8nn" title="placed digital messages in virtual bottles">placed digital messages in virtual bottles</a>, <a href="http://www.consumingexperience.com/2009/08/how-blogger-changed-my-life-my-new.html" id="qcdn" title="helped people fix their cell phones">helped people fix their cell phones</a>, <a href="http://whatplanetareyoulivingon.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-birthday-blog-spot.html" id="sfxx" title="wrote a novel">wrote a novel</a>. You even <a href="http://girlaboutbusiness.blogspot.com/2009/07/loves-blogger.html" id="kopn" title="made the Inaugural Blogging Team at school">made the inaugural blogging team at school</a>, and while there <a href="http://ok-lah.blogspot.com/2009/07/blogger-and-i.html" id="m8.z" title="you're working on your PhD on consumer trends towards blogs">you're working on your PhD on consumer trends towards blogs</a>. There are millions of such stories <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span> and they grow by the day.<br /> <br /> As we turn ten, we wanted to give you some presents to commemorate this milestone and thank you for letting us be part of your story. Over the next several weeks we will be releasing a number of new features on Blogger. Some presents are because <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=e828" id="etk1" title="you asked for them this spring">you asked for them this spring</a>. Other presents are because they meant a lot to us. And some are because our friends (both inside and outside of Google) wanted to chip in and give you something. In short, it's a lot like a real birthday: you won't necessarily want or need every present that you get, but keep in mind: it's the thought that counts!<br /> <br /> We're excited to share this milestone with you. Stay tuned, the next several weeks will be a lot of fun! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blogger is turning 10&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='6979717013074155992' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-joins-hubbub.html' itemprop='url' title='Blogger Joins the Hubbub'> Blogger Joins the Hubbub </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 17, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/">speedy</a> as possible, sometimes it can take a while for the bits to travel through the intertubes.<br /> <br /> We're happy to announce that Blogger has rolled out support for the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">PubSubHubbub protocol</a>, which turns feeds into real-time streams. What does this mean to you? As feed readers adopt PubSubHubbub, your posts will surface immediately for their users. For example, <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-support-for-reader-shared.html">Google Reader has started rolling out support for PubSubHubbub</a>; when it's complete, your Blogger posts will surface in Google Reader as soon as you publish them. <a href="http://friendfeed.com/">FriendFeed</a>, <a href="http://reader.livedoor.com/">Livedoor Reader</a> (a feed reader popular in Japan), and <a href="http://favit.com/">FavIt</a> already support PubSubHubbub—which means that their readers are already benefiting from this new feature.<br /> <br /> <div>Best of all, your blog is already broadcasting updates—you don't need to do anything to enable it.<br /> <br /> Some more details: All blog post feeds now contain a "hub" element, and will ping <a href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/">Google's hub</a> on every post update. If you're a developer writing code to monitor feeds and want to get updates efficiently in near real-time, you just need to detect the hub link and subscribe to the hub server. Then, sit back and let the hub push updates to you. To learn more about PubSubHubbub and start adding code to your project, see <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">the PubSubHubbub site</a>.<br /> <br /> Thanks to <a href="//www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz">Brad Fitzpatrick</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/profiles/bslatkin">Brett Slatkin</a> who worked on a 20% project with the Blogger team to add this support over the past few weeks. We encourage any developer who wants to get a near real-time flow of updates from Blogger to use PubSubHubbub for their application—it's simple, efficient, and lightning fast. If you have questions, you can find answers in our <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/bloggerDev">developer support forum</a>, or you can reach us on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/blogger">@blogger</a>.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">This is one of many features announced as part of </span><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="font-style: italic;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. Happy Birthday!</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> When you publish a public blog post, you want to share it with the world—immediately! Blogger helps by feeding your posts to subscribers all over the web. Unfortunately, while we really want things to be as <a href="http://code.google.com/speed/">speedy</a> as possible, sometimes it can take a while for the bits to travel through the intertubes.<br /> <br /> We're happy to announce that Blogger has rolled out support for the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">PubSubHubbub protocol</a>, which turns feeds into real-time streams. What does this mean to you? As feed readers adopt PubSubHubbub, your posts will surface immediately for their users. For example, <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/08/pubsubhubbub-support-for-reader-shared.html">Google Reader has started rolling out support for PubSubHubbub</a>; when it's complete, your Blogger posts will surface in Google Reader as soon as you publish them. <a href="http://friendfeed.com/">FriendFeed</a>, <a href="http://reader.livedoor.com/">Livedoor Reader</a> (a feed reader popular in Japan), and <a href="http://favit.com/">FavIt</a> already support PubSubHubbub—which means that their readers are already benefiting from this new feature.<br /> <br /> <div>Best of all, your blog is already broadcasting updates—you don't need to do anything to enable it.<br /> <br /> Some more details: All blog post feeds now contain a "hub" element, and will ping <a href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/">Google's hub</a> on every post update. If you're a developer writing code to monitor feeds and want to get updates efficiently in near real-time, you just need to detect the hub link and subscribe to the hub server. Then, sit back and let the hub push updates to you. To learn more about PubSubHubbub and start adding code to your project, see <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/">the PubSubHubbub site</a>.<br /> <br /> Thanks to <a href="//www.google.com/profiles/bradfitz">Brad Fitzpatrick</a> and <a href="//www.google.com/profiles/bslatkin">Brett Slatkin</a> who worked on a 20% project with the Blogger team to add this support over the past few weeks. We encourage any developer who wants to get a near real-time flow of updates from Blogger to use PubSubHubbub for their application—it's simple, efficient, and lightning fast. If you have questions, you can find answers in our <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/bloggerDev">developer support forum</a>, or you can reach us on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/blogger">@blogger</a>.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">This is one of many features announced as part of </span><a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/08/blogger-is-turning-10.html" style="font-style: italic;">Blogger's 10th birthday</a><span style="font-style: italic;">. Happy Birthday!</span></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blogger Joins the Hubbub&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-joins-hubbub.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/08/blogger-joins-hubbub.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='865659981563487158' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/tweet-your-blog.html' itemprop='url' title='Tweet Your Blog'> Tweet Your Blog </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> August 03, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtrz6dhnvn40p86RhY2mrYZRj1k8pgdzqxJc-BnjfkzjiGtd9aOoIl8x9u48kxDzKkxnomsPkt072aKUjTf9_tGjpP8-jEQ9cQ-rBq0wn2Uc2rVGhigDi5cB6KeZKwRRIKEg23w/s1600-h/branding.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365853828418310898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtrz6dhnvn40p86RhY2mrYZRj1k8pgdzqxJc-BnjfkzjiGtd9aOoIl8x9u48kxDzKkxnomsPkt072aKUjTf9_tGjpP8-jEQ9cQ-rBq0wn2Uc2rVGhigDi5cB6KeZKwRRIKEg23w/s320/branding.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 92px;" /></a>Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">Twitterfeed</a>, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post. Here's how to set it up:<br /><br />Head on over to the <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">Twitterfeed</a> site, click<b> Sign In with OpenID</b> and type in your Blogger blog's URL. Once you've registered you'll then be taken to the New Feed page where you can start linking blog feeds to your Twitter account.<br /><br />First click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Connect your feed to Twitter Account</span> button, which will prompt you to enter your Twitter login credentials to authorize Twitterfeed's access. You will get a nice little confirmation once you've successfully linked up your Twitter Account.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnkdO8NECiRFPasLxoc_7InGWtUTXwG5CIEw7rJBLr1Xsz_hNHp2g3_elfmQFvvoti7MYQKLFaaIYPd7GVOneSsPaWPF3g00QDK68K7kYgaK1lXnGG9w-VCNYgttCexagihEThQ/s1600-h/twitterfeed.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350602592701225314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnkdO8NECiRFPasLxoc_7InGWtUTXwG5CIEw7rJBLr1Xsz_hNHp2g3_elfmQFvvoti7MYQKLFaaIYPd7GVOneSsPaWPF3g00QDK68K7kYgaK1lXnGG9w-VCNYgttCexagihEThQ/s320/twitterfeed.PNG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 40px; text-align: center; width: 301px;" /></a><br />Next just enter a name for your feed, as well as your blog's <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97933">Feed URL</a> into the form. If you want to customize your feed's settings you can modify frequency, add prefixes, and even create keyword filters. Otherwise you're all set—click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create Feed</span> button and your Twitterfeed is enabled.<br /><br />You can always come back later to the Twitterfeed site and modify your feed settings, as well as look at click-through metrics for existing feeds. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtrz6dhnvn40p86RhY2mrYZRj1k8pgdzqxJc-BnjfkzjiGtd9aOoIl8x9u48kxDzKkxnomsPkt072aKUjTf9_tGjpP8-jEQ9cQ-rBq0wn2Uc2rVGhigDi5cB6KeZKwRRIKEg23w/s1600-h/branding.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365853828418310898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtrz6dhnvn40p86RhY2mrYZRj1k8pgdzqxJc-BnjfkzjiGtd9aOoIl8x9u48kxDzKkxnomsPkt072aKUjTf9_tGjpP8-jEQ9cQ-rBq0wn2Uc2rVGhigDi5cB6KeZKwRRIKEg23w/s320/branding.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 92px;" /></a>Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">Twitterfeed</a>, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post. Here's how to set it up:<br /><br />Head on over to the <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/">Twitterfeed</a> site, click<b> Sign In with OpenID</b> and type in your Blogger blog's URL. Once you've registered you'll then be taken to the New Feed page where you can start linking blog feeds to your Twitter account.<br /><br />First click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Connect your feed to Twitter Account</span> button, which will prompt you to enter your Twitter login credentials to authorize Twitterfeed's access. You will get a nice little confirmation once you've successfully linked up your Twitter Account.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnkdO8NECiRFPasLxoc_7InGWtUTXwG5CIEw7rJBLr1Xsz_hNHp2g3_elfmQFvvoti7MYQKLFaaIYPd7GVOneSsPaWPF3g00QDK68K7kYgaK1lXnGG9w-VCNYgttCexagihEThQ/s1600-h/twitterfeed.PNG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350602592701225314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBnkdO8NECiRFPasLxoc_7InGWtUTXwG5CIEw7rJBLr1Xsz_hNHp2g3_elfmQFvvoti7MYQKLFaaIYPd7GVOneSsPaWPF3g00QDK68K7kYgaK1lXnGG9w-VCNYgttCexagihEThQ/s320/twitterfeed.PNG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 40px; text-align: center; width: 301px;" /></a><br />Next just enter a name for your feed, as well as your blog's <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97933">Feed URL</a> into the form. If you want to customize your feed's settings you can modify frequency, add prefixes, and even create keyword filters. Otherwise you're all set—click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Create Feed</span> button and your Twitterfeed is enabled.<br /><br />You can always come back later to the Twitterfeed site and modify your feed settings, as well as look at click-through metrics for existing feeds. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Tweet Your Blog&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/tweet-your-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/tweet-your-blog.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='4950220073497061965' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/contribute-gadgets-to-blogger.html' itemprop='url' title='Contribute Gadgets to Blogger'> Contribute Gadgets to Blogger </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> July 08, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <i>(cross posted from <a href="http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2009/06/contribute-gadgets-to-blogger.html">Blogger In Draft</a>) </i><br /> <br /> Calling all Developers! We've just launched several extensions to the Gadget API that will enable developers to build more relevant and engaging gadgets for Blogger.<br /> <br /> As you may already know, every Blogger blog is a gadget container. What's more, every blog is an OpenSocial gadget container powered by <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/">Friend Connect</a>. This means that as a gadget developer you can leverage social APIs to build engaging tools for bloggers and their audience.<br /> <br /> In addition to leveraging social data, gadgets can now <b>access a blog's post and comment feed</b> via new JSON APIs. For example, with this data you could easily build a map gadget that maps the geo-location of posts, or a "Most Commented On" gadget that ranks posts by the number of comments they've received.<br /> <br /> Need to be inspired? Recently we asked our users what gadgets they most wanted to see in Blogger. Hundreds responded and <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=e828&t=ebf1">here's their wish list</a>.<br /> <br /> When you build a gadget for Blogger, it becomes available to millions of active bloggers. Just submit your gadget to us, and within minutes it will surface in the Blogger gadget directory where users can easily browse, configure, and add your gadget to their blog's sidebar.<br /> <br /> So now that you know Blogger is a great distribution platform for your gadget, what are you waiting for? <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/gadgets/gadgets_for_blogger.html">Get started building Gadgets for Blogger now</a>.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Note</span>: The APIs and documentation are new, so there may be bugs. Let us know by posting to the Blogger Developer Group if you run into problems developing your gadget. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <i>(cross posted from <a href="http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2009/06/contribute-gadgets-to-blogger.html">Blogger In Draft</a>) </i><br /> <br /> Calling all Developers! We've just launched several extensions to the Gadget API that will enable developers to build more relevant and engaging gadgets for Blogger.<br /> <br /> As you may already know, every Blogger blog is a gadget container. What's more, every blog is an OpenSocial gadget container powered by <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/friendconnect/">Friend Connect</a>. This means that as a gadget developer you can leverage social APIs to build engaging tools for bloggers and their audience.<br /> <br /> In addition to leveraging social data, gadgets can now <b>access a blog's post and comment feed</b> via new JSON APIs. For example, with this data you could easily build a map gadget that maps the geo-location of posts, or a "Most Commented On" gadget that ranks posts by the number of comments they've received.<br /> <br /> Need to be inspired? Recently we asked our users what gadgets they most wanted to see in Blogger. Hundreds responded and <a href="http://productideas.appspot.com/#15/e=e828&t=ebf1">here's their wish list</a>.<br /> <br /> When you build a gadget for Blogger, it becomes available to millions of active bloggers. Just submit your gadget to us, and within minutes it will surface in the Blogger gadget directory where users can easily browse, configure, and add your gadget to their blog's sidebar.<br /> <br /> So now that you know Blogger is a great distribution platform for your gadget, what are you waiting for? <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/gadgets/gadgets_for_blogger.html">Get started building Gadgets for Blogger now</a>.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Note</span>: The APIs and documentation are new, so there may be bugs. Let us know by posting to the Blogger Developer Group if you run into problems developing your gadget. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Contribute Gadgets to Blogger&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/contribute-gadgets-to-blogger.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/contribute-gadgets-to-blogger.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='2440148655865219626' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/partner-profile-lijit.html' itemprop='url' title='Partner Profile: Lijit'> Partner Profile: Lijit </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> July 06, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lijit.com/res/images/big_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u2ucv4isFrs0xy2BjQiObej_ALblZNw02pgClIr37NiOv3RdgKnh5uGCGKknG2Ai4S-uxdwZn4JxCuosb9EcjezYjWeK5_rXTT59tEu5Zb=s0-d"></a></div>Periodically, we profile a Blogger partner that can add functionality to your blog. This week we'd like to spotlight <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lijit.com/referrer/wijit?id=bloggerblog&returnURL=/signup/start" rel="homepage" title="lijit">Lijit</a>, a company building "search powered web applications for publishers" (that's you!). Lijit has made adding its "wijit" as easy as could be—just fill in your blog's URL and complete the sign-up wizard, you'll be good to go.<br /> <br /> What does Lijit give you? For starters, Lijit provides a nice search tool for your site that will not only search your blog, but search the blogs of your friends, and all of the related sites (Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, del.icio.us bookmarks, etc.) that you and your friends use regularly.<br /> <br /> Where Lijit shines is in the stats they gather for you: what are people searching for when they come to your blog? Once they arrive, what do they then look for? Where are they coming from? How has search traffic changed over time?<br /> <br /> Best of all, Lijit lets you expose this info via a customizable "wijit" so that your visitors can see where other visitors are coming from and what they are looking for. To see this in action, take a look at Dark UFO's <a href="http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/">Lost Spoilers site</a>, a Blogger blog focused on unraveling the mysteries surrounding the TV show Lost. The Lost Spoilers wijit shows not only the most recent searches that have brought visitors to the Lost Spoilers site:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SBO-eczy0D5y9Elkwi8uYXKubsVWMx9A4gl3Pgz86Iu9Xwmpt7lKrSpG8EJa7ecDGYYU52OWvKWDlxb_AdQNPM5vWRCEDxsCkKIym1JCQaTJbY1fMuvMhyphenhyphenu5BHBTzGLfoXgB/s1600-h/Picture+42.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SBO-eczy0D5y9Elkwi8uYXKubsVWMx9A4gl3Pgz86Iu9Xwmpt7lKrSpG8EJa7ecDGYYU52OWvKWDlxb_AdQNPM5vWRCEDxsCkKIym1JCQaTJbY1fMuvMhyphenhyphenu5BHBTzGLfoXgB/s320/Picture+42.png" /></a></div><br /> It also shows a map of their visitors:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBp9jIv-HLMccU7gqDfEJ-uu25mnrbaUCcdQ1xOto-WulwhqC2qvNh6v3s9O4SvY2evP9nv_zeImFgGuxOTzILgFoH2DjuCceps7ks_yHo1opA0kWy4ExvU97JvjPnMIeSm8V/s1600-h/Picture+43.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBp9jIv-HLMccU7gqDfEJ-uu25mnrbaUCcdQ1xOto-WulwhqC2qvNh6v3s9O4SvY2evP9nv_zeImFgGuxOTzILgFoH2DjuCceps7ks_yHo1opA0kWy4ExvU97JvjPnMIeSm8V/s320/Picture+43.png" /></a></div><br /> And finally it shows a list of the most recent visitors, their locations, and if they used a search to visit the site, the search term they used:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86QFRwR_o5O-WhHyjdu7Z2cH-kZc5xHHFTj_kLp6dfXG1s8GbFAwenU-YJESz7l9DXDaEtuMirN3TEBt8-K5dUkg8sg-uceBhg8_EB8i-GXz0H9pcPA9xpnhE9FEbKwrF_JEO/s1600-h/Picture+44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86QFRwR_o5O-WhHyjdu7Z2cH-kZc5xHHFTj_kLp6dfXG1s8GbFAwenU-YJESz7l9DXDaEtuMirN3TEBt8-K5dUkg8sg-uceBhg8_EB8i-GXz0H9pcPA9xpnhE9FEbKwrF_JEO/s320/Picture+44.png" /></a></div><br /> Interested? <a href="http://www.lijit.com/referrer/wijit?id=bloggerblog&returnURL=/signup/start">Give Lijit a try</a> - just visit their site and you'll have it on your blog in just a few minutes! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lijit.com/res/images/big_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u2ucv4isFrs0xy2BjQiObej_ALblZNw02pgClIr37NiOv3RdgKnh5uGCGKknG2Ai4S-uxdwZn4JxCuosb9EcjezYjWeK5_rXTT59tEu5Zb=s0-d"></a></div>Periodically, we profile a Blogger partner that can add functionality to your blog. This week we'd like to spotlight <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lijit.com/referrer/wijit?id=bloggerblog&returnURL=/signup/start" rel="homepage" title="lijit">Lijit</a>, a company building "search powered web applications for publishers" (that's you!). Lijit has made adding its "wijit" as easy as could be—just fill in your blog's URL and complete the sign-up wizard, you'll be good to go.<br /> <br /> What does Lijit give you? For starters, Lijit provides a nice search tool for your site that will not only search your blog, but search the blogs of your friends, and all of the related sites (Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, del.icio.us bookmarks, etc.) that you and your friends use regularly.<br /> <br /> Where Lijit shines is in the stats they gather for you: what are people searching for when they come to your blog? Once they arrive, what do they then look for? Where are they coming from? How has search traffic changed over time?<br /> <br /> Best of all, Lijit lets you expose this info via a customizable "wijit" so that your visitors can see where other visitors are coming from and what they are looking for. To see this in action, take a look at Dark UFO's <a href="http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/">Lost Spoilers site</a>, a Blogger blog focused on unraveling the mysteries surrounding the TV show Lost. The Lost Spoilers wijit shows not only the most recent searches that have brought visitors to the Lost Spoilers site:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SBO-eczy0D5y9Elkwi8uYXKubsVWMx9A4gl3Pgz86Iu9Xwmpt7lKrSpG8EJa7ecDGYYU52OWvKWDlxb_AdQNPM5vWRCEDxsCkKIym1JCQaTJbY1fMuvMhyphenhyphenu5BHBTzGLfoXgB/s1600-h/Picture+42.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0SBO-eczy0D5y9Elkwi8uYXKubsVWMx9A4gl3Pgz86Iu9Xwmpt7lKrSpG8EJa7ecDGYYU52OWvKWDlxb_AdQNPM5vWRCEDxsCkKIym1JCQaTJbY1fMuvMhyphenhyphenu5BHBTzGLfoXgB/s320/Picture+42.png" /></a></div><br /> It also shows a map of their visitors:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBp9jIv-HLMccU7gqDfEJ-uu25mnrbaUCcdQ1xOto-WulwhqC2qvNh6v3s9O4SvY2evP9nv_zeImFgGuxOTzILgFoH2DjuCceps7ks_yHo1opA0kWy4ExvU97JvjPnMIeSm8V/s1600-h/Picture+43.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfBp9jIv-HLMccU7gqDfEJ-uu25mnrbaUCcdQ1xOto-WulwhqC2qvNh6v3s9O4SvY2evP9nv_zeImFgGuxOTzILgFoH2DjuCceps7ks_yHo1opA0kWy4ExvU97JvjPnMIeSm8V/s320/Picture+43.png" /></a></div><br /> And finally it shows a list of the most recent visitors, their locations, and if they used a search to visit the site, the search term they used:<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86QFRwR_o5O-WhHyjdu7Z2cH-kZc5xHHFTj_kLp6dfXG1s8GbFAwenU-YJESz7l9DXDaEtuMirN3TEBt8-K5dUkg8sg-uceBhg8_EB8i-GXz0H9pcPA9xpnhE9FEbKwrF_JEO/s1600-h/Picture+44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86QFRwR_o5O-WhHyjdu7Z2cH-kZc5xHHFTj_kLp6dfXG1s8GbFAwenU-YJESz7l9DXDaEtuMirN3TEBt8-K5dUkg8sg-uceBhg8_EB8i-GXz0H9pcPA9xpnhE9FEbKwrF_JEO/s320/Picture+44.png" /></a></div><br /> Interested? <a href="http://www.lijit.com/referrer/wijit?id=bloggerblog&returnURL=/signup/start">Give Lijit a try</a> - just visit their site and you'll have it on your blog in just a few minutes! <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Partner Profile: Lijit&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/partner-profile-lijit.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/07/partner-profile-lijit.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='1605286773544814865' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html' itemprop='url' title='Blogger is Turning 10'> Blogger is Turning 10 </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> June 18, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <i>(Cross-posted from the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Official Google Blog.</a>)</i><br /> <br /> Google's about to have its <a href="//www.google.com/tenthbirthday/">second tenth birthday</a>. In late August, <a href="//blogger.com/">Blogger</a> will officially turn 10 years old. As our birthday draws near, we thought it would be interesting to share some fun facts about Blogger:<br /> <ul><li>Every minute of every day, 270,000 words are written on Blogger</li> <li>Millions of people worldwide use Blogger to publish to their blog each week</li> <li>Almost two thirds of Blogger's traffic comes from outside North America (What's the #2 country after the U.S.? Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.)</li> <li>The most popular sport for our bloggers? Soccer (that's football to the rest of the world), more than four times larger than the #2 sport, baseball</li> </ul>While we're really excited about this milestone, we want the focus to be on you and the remarkable stories that you and millions of people around the world document on Blogger. After all, blogs are one of the true building blocks of the web, constantly updated not only with news and personal stories, but any kind of information you can imagine. Just this week, there's an Iranian student <a href="http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/">documenting</a> the minute-by-minute proceedings in Iran, while a British woman is uploading <a href="http://rozsavage.blogspot.com/">nightly blog posts</a> from her satellite phone while rowing solo from Hawaii to Australia, while an <a href="http://ryanrunseurope.blogspot.com/">American college student</a> is running from Amsterdam to Athens with nothing but the pack on his back. There are literally millions more.<br /> <br /> What's your story? Did your blog help you find a job? Learn a language? Interact with your fans? Master a new skill? Battle an illness? Turn a hobby into a career? We read as many blog posts as we can, and what we do read is often brilliant. But we want to know more — we want to hear from you about what Blogger has meant to you over the past decade.<br /> <br /> Do what you do best: tell your story. Write a post, and then let us know about it by filling out <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=clFhSG1FUXFtUFFnT3FfUU9Yd3EwYVE6MA..">this form</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/">Blogger Buzz</a>, where we'll be sharing some of our favorites over the coming weeks.<br /> <br /> To the millions who have depended on Blogger to help you tell your story, thank you. To those of you who have yet to tell your story, creating a blog couldn't be easier: just visit <a href="//www.blogger.com/">blogger.com</a> to get started. We can't wait to see what the next ten years bring — and stay tuned for details about the tenth birthday itself. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <i>(Cross-posted from the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html">Official Google Blog.</a>)</i><br /> <br /> Google's about to have its <a href="//www.google.com/tenthbirthday/">second tenth birthday</a>. In late August, <a href="//blogger.com/">Blogger</a> will officially turn 10 years old. As our birthday draws near, we thought it would be interesting to share some fun facts about Blogger:<br /> <ul><li>Every minute of every day, 270,000 words are written on Blogger</li> <li>Millions of people worldwide use Blogger to publish to their blog each week</li> <li>Almost two thirds of Blogger's traffic comes from outside North America (What's the #2 country after the U.S.? Brazil, followed by Turkey, Spain, Canada, and the U.K.)</li> <li>The most popular sport for our bloggers? Soccer (that's football to the rest of the world), more than four times larger than the #2 sport, baseball</li> </ul>While we're really excited about this milestone, we want the focus to be on you and the remarkable stories that you and millions of people around the world document on Blogger. After all, blogs are one of the true building blocks of the web, constantly updated not only with news and personal stories, but any kind of information you can imagine. Just this week, there's an Iranian student <a href="http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/">documenting</a> the minute-by-minute proceedings in Iran, while a British woman is uploading <a href="http://rozsavage.blogspot.com/">nightly blog posts</a> from her satellite phone while rowing solo from Hawaii to Australia, while an <a href="http://ryanrunseurope.blogspot.com/">American college student</a> is running from Amsterdam to Athens with nothing but the pack on his back. There are literally millions more.<br /> <br /> What's your story? Did your blog help you find a job? Learn a language? Interact with your fans? Master a new skill? Battle an illness? Turn a hobby into a career? We read as many blog posts as we can, and what we do read is often brilliant. But we want to know more — we want to hear from you about what Blogger has meant to you over the past decade.<br /> <br /> Do what you do best: tell your story. Write a post, and then let us know about it by filling out <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=clFhSG1FUXFtUFFnT3FfUU9Yd3EwYVE6MA..">this form</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/">Blogger Buzz</a>, where we'll be sharing some of our favorites over the coming weeks.<br /> <br /> To the millions who have depended on Blogger to help you tell your story, thank you. To those of you who have yet to tell your story, creating a blog couldn't be easier: just visit <a href="//www.blogger.com/">blogger.com</a> to get started. We can't wait to see what the next ten years bring — and stay tuned for details about the tenth birthday itself. <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </noscript> </div> </div> <div class='share'> <span class='twitter-custom social-wrapper' data-href='http://twitter.com/share?text=Official Blogger Blog:Blogger is Turning 10&url=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html'> <img alt='Share on Twitter' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_twitter_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> <span class='fb-custom social-wrapper' data-href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html'> <img alt='Share on Facebook' height='24' src='https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/post_facebook_black_24dp.png' width='24'/> </span> </div> </div> <div class='post' data-id='675194330003533723' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting'> <h2 class='title' itemprop='name'> <a href='https://blogger.googleblog.com/2009/06/zemanta-helps-you-blog-smarter.html' itemprop='url' title='Zemanta helps you "blog smarter"'> Zemanta helps you "blog smarter" </a> </h2> <div class='post-header'> <div class='published'> <span class='publishdate' itemprop='datePublished'> June 10, 2009 </span> </div> </div> <div class='post-body'> <div class='post-content' itemprop='articleBody'> <script type='text/template'> <div class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="display: block; float: right; margin: 1em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79989800@N00/2516113621"><img alt="Blog better using Zemanta" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uw-zpTOSTXlU4Uwpk28D9X_PnfR5mIY6xxCT5BNZ_pi-Ge6dTATQpErT4GgA7AScQFT2l7pn7goFYlcQcMvO60rIqIezC4WQma7UZHkretZP8h2-6qDLm67lKC968FZx0kVQ=s0-d" style="border: medium none; display: block;"></a>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79989800@N00/2516113621">chucks</a> via Flickr</div>We're always looking for tools to make blogging easier, and a number of us on the Blogger team have become big fans of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" rel="homepage" title="Zemanta">Zemanta</a>. Zemanta is a browser plug-in for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" rel="homepage" title="Firefox">Firefox</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/">IE</a>, and is available as a bookmarklet for <a class="zem_slink" href="//www.google.com/chrome" rel="homepage" title="Google Chrome">Chrome</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/safari/" rel="homepage" title="Safari (web browser)">Safari</a>. (More details <a href="http://www.zemanta.com/bloggers/">here</a>, you can download your version of Zemanta <a href="http://www.zemanta.com/download/">here</a>.)<br /> <br /> Here's how it works: while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post. (The Zemanta screenshot from Flickr in this post was inserted with just that one click.)<br /> <br /> In addition, Zemanta looks for words/phrases it's familiar with, and makes it easy to link those words to URLs it knows about. The phrases appear immediately below the post editor in Blogger, and by clicking on them you automatically create the links Zemanta recommends. No more highlighting text, clicking "Link", pasting the URL - just click the words you want linked, and Zemanta handles the creation of the link - to webpages, maps, videos or pictures.<br /> <br /> Blogger Labels are easier to use with Zemanta, too: Zemanta automatically suggests labels for your based on the text of your post, and creates the labels for you if you like. Finally, "Latest Update" gives you a list of blog posts from other blogs writing about similar topics. It's a great way to discover sites talking about similar topics, and if you'd like to point your readers to those articles for further reading, clicking on them in the sidebar inserts them as "Related reading" links at the bottom of your post (see below).<br /> <br /> If you have a few minutes, the following video review by Blogger user <a href="http://blog.pluginseo.com/2009/04/review-zemanta-blog-enrichment.html">Plug in SEO</a> does a good job covering how Zemanta helps save you time while enhancing your blog posts. <a href="http://blog.pluginseo.com/2009/04/review-zemanta-blog-enrichment.html">The blog post</a> accompanying the reivew is also worth a read.<br /> <br /> <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/7rRcWY1A49o&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/7rRcWY1A49o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /> <br /> We'll keep our eyes open for other tools that make your blog better. Stay tuned!<br /> <br /> <fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend><br /> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.lockergnome.com/keenanpatterson/2009/03/24/make-your-blog-posts-better/">Make Your Blog Posts Better</a> (lockergnome.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/12/zemanta-safari-chrome-opera/">Zemanta Spreads To Safari, Chrome, Opera</a> (mashable.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/04/zemanta-coolest-application-for.html"> Zemanta - the Coolest Application for Bloggers I Have Seen </a> (change-management-blog.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.bloggingot.com/blogging-tools/blog-more-effectively-with-zemanta/"> Blog More Effectively With Zemanta </a> (bloggingot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://toolsforjournalists.blogspot.com/2009/04/zemanta-cutting-out-middle-man.html"> Zemanta - Cutting out the middle man. </a> (toolsforjournalists.blogspot.com)</li> </ul></fieldset><br /> <br /> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/460c0880-1135-4602-a270-ebd532510639/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tAvZyyiHQYypviHyo7sj5UG2pA3gwc8TWR-RQWBV2HClrcmv3f6-AEP2g31TEihvUoBR6TToscK4-aFsa5KliFAnxJTNGGSJau3lMTWtOsFwIQ6FKwMOpmlXOZ0NCeBEXwY9-1yR4nY7vRZPlQWZq8=s0-d" style="border: medium none; float: right;"></a><script defer src="//static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript"> </script></div> <span itemprop='author' itemscope='itemscope' itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <meta content='https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550' itemprop='url'/> </span> </script> <noscript> <div class="zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged" style="display: block; float: right; margin: 1em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79989800@N00/2516113621"><img alt="Blog better using Zemanta" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uw-zpTOSTXlU4Uwpk28D9X_PnfR5mIY6xxCT5BNZ_pi-Ge6dTATQpErT4GgA7AScQFT2l7pn7goFYlcQcMvO60rIqIezC4WQma7UZHkretZP8h2-6qDLm67lKC968FZx0kVQ=s0-d" style="border: medium none; display: block;"></a>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/79989800@N00/2516113621">chucks</a> via Flickr</div>We're always looking for tools to make blogging easier, and a number of us on the Blogger team have become big fans of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" rel="homepage" title="Zemanta">Zemanta</a>. Zemanta is a browser plug-in for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/" rel="homepage" title="Firefox">Firefox</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/ie/">IE</a>, and is available as a bookmarklet for <a class="zem_slink" href="//www.google.com/chrome" rel="homepage" title="Google Chrome">Chrome</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.apple.com/safari/" rel="homepage" title="Safari (web browser)">Safari</a>. (More details <a href="http://www.zemanta.com/bloggers/">here</a>, you can download your version of Zemanta <a href="http://www.zemanta.com/download/">here</a>.)<br /> <br /> Here's how it works: while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post. (The Zemanta screenshot from Flickr in this post was inserted with just that one click.)<br /> <br /> In addition, Zemanta looks for words/phrases it's familiar with, and makes it easy to link those words to URLs it knows about. The phrases appear immediately below the post editor in Blogger, and by clicking on them you automatically create the links Zemanta recommends. No more highlighting text, clicking "Link", pasting the URL - just click the words you want linked, and Zemanta handles the creation of the link - to webpages, maps, videos or pictures.<br /> <br /> Blogger Labels are easier to use with Zemanta, too: Zemanta automatically suggests labels for your based on the text of your post, and creates the labels for you if you like. Finally, "Latest Update" gives you a list of blog posts from other blogs writing about similar topics. It's a great way to discover sites talking about similar topics, and if you'd like to point your readers to those articles for further reading, clicking on them in the sidebar inserts them as "Related reading" links at the bottom of your post (see below).<br /> <br /> If you have a few minutes, the following video review by Blogger user <a href="http://blog.pluginseo.com/2009/04/review-zemanta-blog-enrichment.html">Plug in SEO</a> does a good job covering how Zemanta helps save you time while enhancing your blog posts. <a href="http://blog.pluginseo.com/2009/04/review-zemanta-blog-enrichment.html">The blog post</a> accompanying the reivew is also worth a read.<br /> <br /> <object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/7rRcWY1A49o&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/7rRcWY1A49o&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /> <br /> We'll keep our eyes open for other tools that make your blog better. Stay tuned!<br /> <br /> <fieldset class="zemanta-related"><legend class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta</legend><br /> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.lockergnome.com/keenanpatterson/2009/03/24/make-your-blog-posts-better/">Make Your Blog Posts Better</a> (lockergnome.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://mashable.com/2009/03/12/zemanta-safari-chrome-opera/">Zemanta Spreads To Safari, Chrome, Opera</a> (mashable.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.change-management-blog.com/2009/04/zemanta-coolest-application-for.html"> Zemanta - the Coolest Application for Bloggers I Have Seen </a> (change-management-blog.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.bloggingot.com/blogging-tools/blog-more-effectively-with-zemanta/"> Blog More Effectively With Zemanta </a> (bloggingot.com)</li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a 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