New blogger sucks.
I switched over from "old blogger" today to try out the new "drag and drop" template editor. But that feature is not available to those who don't use the folks at Google to host their blogs. Apparently it has something to do with the "dynamic hosting abilities of Blog*Spot." Too bad they didn't mention that before.
Does this too make me a contrarian? I am still wary about Google and News Corp. owning and/or storing the western world's personalities/marketing preferences. When I first started blogging (in 1997, before it was called blogging), authors understood the simple software they used to share their thoughts. Now I have no idea what's going on, and I don't think that anyone else does, either.
Why should I use Blog*Spot? My blog isn't about anything, and it never was. Will Google really make it easier for people to find out what I think? Who cares? Why can't I own my own blog? Why am I not supposed to own anything around me except my clothes?
Does this too make me a contrarian? I am still wary about Google and News Corp. owning and/or storing the western world's personalities/marketing preferences. When I first started blogging (in 1997, before it was called blogging), authors understood the simple software they used to share their thoughts. Now I have no idea what's going on, and I don't think that anyone else does, either.
Why should I use Blog*Spot? My blog isn't about anything, and it never was. Will Google really make it easier for people to find out what I think? Who cares? Why can't I own my own blog? Why am I not supposed to own anything around me except my clothes?
Labels: google hegemony
posted by Rob at 12:11 PM
4 Comments:
I don't know what sorts of troubles you're having with new blogger, but if its about HTML code in new posts, it might be that you are in "Compose" rather than "Edit HTML" (there should be two tabs on the post box). Try switching to edit HTML, which should work like the old blogger.
Thanks, dude. I'm mostly bummed about the features they advertised that are only available to those who (unlike us) host on blogspot. I need to get up to date on CSS anyway...
Oh yes, I know what you mean. They didn't exactly build in flexibility with the system. I think the real issue though is that blogspot blogs are dynamically generating the pages, pulling all the content out of a database, but non-blogspot blogs are all static HTML, which actually I have noticed has lead to longer post times because there are more pages that are generated.
The only feature though that I wanted that doesn't work seems to be label clusters / label lists. A few months back when I switched to new blogger I found some rudimentary scripts that people had been working on (though not perfected) that would generate label clusters on non-blogspot blogs. I think now that a few months have past the more industrious bloggers have probably created some scripts that might do the things you want. Its all a matter of searching the net for them.
Oh also, the whole bit about the new fancier templates are totally overrated. After I realized the new templates are just for Blogspot blogs, I created a blogspot blog just to have some fun with the templates, and I wasn't that impressed.
As you probably saw, I "let out" the main text column of this page by playing with the pixel values in the stupid template. It took 2-3 seconds and satisfied my aesthetic longings.
There's something weird about having dynamically generated blogs, and relying on a Google database to supply the world with your writing. At least when we host our own stuff, we have the option of having everything out there in HTML...and not necessarily hidden from non-Google search engines.
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