MetaTalk posts tagged with blogger

R.I.P., Anita Rowland

ewagoner — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:37:04 -0800

Anita Rowland (User 113), old school blogger, inspiration to many, has lost her fight with cancer. She'll be missed.

Recrutiing bloggers as mentors

k8t — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:06:07 -0800

Recruiting bloggers? I am working on a youth blogging project and I want to ask MeFi bloggers if anyone is interested in being a one-week mentor. All they have to do is post a blog entry on a specific topic (i.e. heroes or community service) early in the week and comment on the kids' blogs throughout the week.

Where would be a good place on MeFi to post this?

giving credit where credit is due

dobbs — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:04:06 -0800

What's the etiquette for VIA if you're emailed a link by a blogger, but that link's not actually on their blog? Should one just not provide a VIA or should you link to the blog anyway to give credit where it's due?

"What's up with blogspot?"

mlang — Tue, 21 May 2002 08:20:49 -0800

what's up with blogspot? many of my favorite blogspot-hosted weblogs are down (as is the homepage), but some blogs just won't go away. there's no mention of an outage or server crash on the blogger website or on evan's weblog. anybody know anything?

Weblog Nation

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:24:22 -0800

Wow! MetaFilter's Nikolai Nolan has put up a terrific web site called Weblog Nation that presents the weblogging dynamic and community in a fresh, uncomplicated way. MetaFilter gets royal treatment, of course - which is only fair. But the whole presentation is truly impressive, almost luxurious. The question is "Does it present too rosy a picture?". My own answer would definitely be no. We need uplifting stuff like this more than ever.

I have my head up mu culo.

Frasermoo — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:16:43 -0800

I have my head up mu culo. I have only just learnt of Blogger.com from todays post by Mr.Howie. I think I will make use of something like this, probably for professional promotion, touting my CV etc. Are there other sites more practial to my application? Any pitfalls i should be aware of?

Blogger subscription announcement

insomnyuk — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:54:40 -0800

Blogger's new announcement: just a blogspot change. Rather clever, actually. I might even buy one myself.. anyone else?

he's corralling the kittens

elvissinatra — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 11:34:33 -0800

Ha: "Matt Haughey whips scripts and pushes pixels at Pyra Labs. When he's not being cheeky on his personal site, he's corralling the kittens on his community one.

Also by Matt:
free web host
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What exactly is it that just happened to Blogger?

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:43:15 -0800

What exactly is it that just happened to Blogger? I saw hints that there had been some sort of security breach, and now everything is inaccessible. (And the Blogspot server is outright offline as I write this.) There was some sort of password break?

Blogger's been a bit upity today hasn't it?

feelinglistless — Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:56:09 -0800

Blogger's been a bit upity today hasn't it?

Blogger now does ads (Nov. 2001)

yourpalbill — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:57:02 -0800

Pyra (the Blogger company) has a new product called pyRads which promises to become a turnkey microadvertising service for webmasters, like TextAds for anyone's site.

Mac bloggers ahoy

machaus — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:40:39 -0800

I don't use blogger, so I don't know if this functionality exists elsewhere, but this looks pretty cool for blogger users on Mac OS 10.1.

Navel gazing: most popular

Neale — Sun, 02 Sep 2001 22:31:37 -0800

Some navel gazing (hmmmm, perty):

As far as I can tell, Blogger is the most popular weblog app, Metafilter the most popular weblog, and Jason Kottke the most popular weblogger.

The end of free

cell divide — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:28:24 -0800

Ev Williams of Blogger's new (well new to me, anyway) project is The End of Free

What does this mean for Blogger? How will it "transition from free to fee and beyond"? What about other weblog software, is there anything you'd pay for?

Blogger sells ad space

Neale — Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:15:19 -0800

Blogger sells ad space. Don't panic. It's only the last ditch cry of the "free web".

An actual porn site; found

moz — Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:50:35 -0800

Browsing the recently updated list of sites on Blogger, as I occasionally do, I noticed this site on the list. I was expecting a girl with a sarcastic take on life, or a similar cliché; instead, I got an actual porn site. (With plenty of html and blogger tag errors.) Is this simply the natural progression of things, or something dastardly and the... erm... artificial progression of things?

Blogger is experiencing DNS problems at the moment

sanitycheck — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:26:24 -0800

I didn't think this was important enough to post on the main MeFi page, but thought I'd pass it along here...

According to evhead.com, Blogger is experiencing DNS problems at the moment. If you just can't live without it, try going to http://64.41.146.214/.

Blogger vs. LiveJournal Webby War

owillis — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:36:52 -0800

Ev declares "war" on Livejournal. Yeah, they're pricks - but it may also smack of crass self promotion. Whaddya think?

Tomorrow's New York Times today

luke — Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:40:20 -0800

Tomorrow's New York Times today:

By DAVID F. GALLAGHER
c.2001 New York Times News Service

The Trellix Corp., which lets clients like About.com provide site-building tools and Web server space to their users, will announce Monday that it has licensed Pyra's Blogger technology for an undisclosed sum.
...
The free Blogger service brought Pyra plenty of attention and great press, but plans to introduce a paid version never materialized, and late last year Pyra, based in San Francisco, laid off all but one full-time employee, Evan Williams, a company co-founder. The meltdown was documented in painful detail on the personal Web logs of Pyra's staff, and Blogger fans feared the service would soon vanish.

"I've been struggling to figure out the business part,’" Williams said, adding that the agreement with Trellix would keep Blogger alive. He plans to help Trellix package Blogger functions with its other site-building tools, bringing the Web log concept to a wider audience.
...
Dan Bricklin, the founder and chief technical officer of Trellix and a PC industry veteran, said he was "a devout believer in the power of blogging for self-expression," and that he "didn’t want Blogger to go under."

Air your dirty laundry here?

netbros — Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:55:34 -0800

Mr. Kottke and Ms. Hourihan, if you have something to say, just say it.

WebReview covers Blogger

harmful — Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:29:58 -0800

If anybody's interested, there's a new article on Blogger up on WebReview.

Blogger = dead?

capt.crackpipe — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:45:54 -0800

Is blogger dead?

Pyra

alan — Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:26:24 -0800

Stick that in your "where's the business plan" pipe and smoke it.

Blogger turns off remember me

alan — Fri, 12 May 2000 13:50:59 -0800

Let's give Blogger a nod for turning off the 'remember me' feature until Microsoft fixes its cookie problems.

Now if they'd just get FTP working with my server (-: