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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Blogger Newsletter

Blogger Newsletter
December, 2010

Hello Blogger user!

We know it’s been a little while since you’ve heard directly from us, so here we are again to spread the latest product news and updates from the Blogger Team.

Things have been very busy over here recently, as we’ve been working really hard to develop a number of new features while also building out new teams in global offices. Over the last few months we’ve put a lot of energy towards turning your suggestions into improvements to Blogger, and just in case you missed something along the way, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite updates for you to check out.

And while you’re busy reading through this list, we’ll be putting the final touches on the next round of exciting stuff. Make sure to stay tuned for 2011; we have big plans in store.

Features

Comment Filtering

Hopefully you’ve noticed the new Comments tab in your dashboard, which we added over the summer as part of our upgrade to the comment system. This Comment Inbox is a centralized place where you can manage all of your comment-related tasks, like delete published comments, manage comments that have been flagged as spam, and moderate awaiting comments (if you’ve enabled Comment Moderation).

We’ve also started analyzing all posted comments in our system, and are automatically classifying the ones we believe to be spam. Similar to Gmail’s spam filtering, you can help us improve our classifiers by telling us whether the comments we’ve caught are actually spam.



Stats

The Stats tab is another recent addition to the dashboard, and is the hub for all your blog’s realtime traffic data. Pageviews, reader location, browser types, popular posts, and referral sources are just a few of the pieces of information we’re constantly collecting for each blog.

If you want to show off your blog’s traffic data to your readers, we’ve also built Blog Stats and Popular Posts gadgets which you can add to your template. These can be added from the Gadget Directory at any time, and have a variety of configurable options to change the display and data layout.



Background Image Upload

Earlier in the summer we released our Template Designer to all users, and asked for your feedback about what other features we could add to make it even better. By far the top request was the ability to upload your own background image, and we’re happy to say that this feature is now live within the Template Designer.

To upload your own background image to your blog, simply click on the Background section within the Template Designer.



Mobile BlogSpot

We realize that more and more users are accessing the web on smartphones, and we want to make sure that blogs still look nice when viewed on these smaller screens. We’ve put a lot of work into creating a mobile version of BlogSpot, which will automatically detect if a blog is accessed on a smartphone and then display a mobile-optimized version.

Mobile BlogSpot is live now on Blogger in Draft, and can be enabled from the Settings | Email & Mobile tab. From there you can also check out a mobile preview version of your blog to see what it will look like.



Web Fonts

The Google Web Fonts team has made great progress on expanding font options across the web, especially for non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic and Greek. We’ve taken advantage of their work and now offer 40 new Web Fonts in the Template Designer on Blogger in Draft. For the full list, check out our Help Center article.



From Our Friends

Other helpful services recommended the Blogger Team

$100 Coupon for AdWords!

With Google AdWords you can attract new Blogger readers at the exact moment they’re searching for you. Google AdWords is the online advertising program that shows 3-line ads next to Google Search results. Just choose the search terms your potential readers are likely to use, write your ad, and decide how much you’re willing to pay per click and per day.

To kick off the holiday season we're giving new advertisers a $100* coupon to promote your blog and boost your reader numbers. Redeem your $100 coupon code now to try AdWords: 5954-622R-FMGN-D97Q-KGXS

Offer expires January 31, 2011.

*Full coupon Terms and Conditions found here. Promotion is only valid for new advertisers



OpenSky

The folks at OpenSky have built a great service which connects you with small e-tailers to write about their products on your personal blog. You can search for the products and services which interest you, and then pass those recommendations to your readers while splitting all profits 50/50.

The best part is that OpenSky takes care of all of the order processing, fulfillment, and customer service. It’s one of the best affiliate programs we’ve come across, and it’s a great chance to help your readers discover interesting and relevant products.



Your Feedback is always welcome

As always, our ears are open to your feedback. Many of the features and developments covered in this newsletter are the result of comments, surveys, tweets, and other feedback that you’ve passed along. So please keep it coming!

And finally, we have a quick 30-second survey about our monetization features for those interested in passing along your feedback.

More Blogger Hubs

Blogger Buzz: Our official product blog
Blogger in Draft blog: News from our testing ground
Blogger Developer’s Network: The latest news for our developer community
The Coffee Shop: Chat with other Bloggers in our community forum
Blogger on Twitter: Follow us for the latest news and announcements from the team
Blogger on Facebook: Become a fan and interact with other Bloggers from around the world

Thanks again for using Blogger!

- The Blogger Team

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Blogger Newsletter - July 2010

Blogger Newsletter July, 2010

Hello Blogger user!

It’s been a busy and exciting last few months for all of us here on the Blogger Team. We’ve been working hard from around the globe to put the finishing touches on a handful of recently-released features, as well as looking to the future with big ideas which will make Blogger even better. So as we say goodbye to the first half of 2010, we wanted to say a big thanks to all of you who have made working on Blogger so fun and rewarding—we really do appreciate it!

We thought it’d be helpful to summarize some of the latest Blogger news and developments that our team is especially proud of. From new features to worldwide Blogger meetups, there is much to be excited about. So without further ado, here is the 411:

Features, Fresh Out of the Oven



Template Designer

If you haven’t had a chance to check out our brand-new Template Designer, you’re really missing out. We laid out the full laundry list of new design features in a recent Buzz post, but we think the best way to find out what’s possible is to get your hands dirty and play around right now.

So go ahead and freshen up your template; your blog will thank you.



Blogger Stats

We’re very excited about the most recent creation from Blogger in Draft, Blogger Stats. Blogger stats makes it easier than ever to get all sorts of real-time traffic data for your blog, right from the comfort of your Blogger dashboard.







Accurate Post Preview

We understand how important it is for your blog posts to display exactly as you expect when published, so we’ve put a lot of time into improving our current preview page. The end result is an entirely revamped post preview, which now displays your drafts exactly as they will appear when published live on your blog.



New Sharing Buttons

We’re always thinking about ways to help you better promote and share your blog content with the world, and the new sharing buttons we’ve just released are great tools to help you get the word out. The buttons—which support sharing via email, Blogger, Google Buzz, Twitter, and Facebook—can be placed under each blog post where your readers will easily see them.

You can turn on the new sharing buttons right now by editing the Blog Posts widget and enabling Show Share Buttons in the Design | Page Elements tab.







Zemanta Post Gadget

Zemanta has been a partner with Blogger for over a year now, providing a browser plugin service that helps you easily add related content to your blog posts. We’ve seen so much positive feedback about the service that we recently released a gadget version of the service that easily integrates directly in your post editor.

Want more info? Check out Zemanta’s own video overview and tutorials!



Google Affiliate Network

With Google Affiliate Network you can access affiliate ads for top retailers. If the ad or text link you post on your blog results in a sale, you earn a commission.

Google Affiliate Network is featured in the Monetization tab in your Blogger account. You’ll need an AdSense ID to join, and once you have access to Google Affiliate Network you can apply to advertiser programs, promote ads, search for links to specific products, sign up to access product feeds, and utilize Link Subscriptions that deliver the latest links and promotions directly to you each day.





More Fun Stuff

Worldwide Meetup

The Blogger Team has long wanted to help organize a worldwide meetup for Blogger enthusiasts all over the world, and we’re happy to announce that we’re in the final planning stages of actually making this happen! We’ll be sure to share the details on Blogger Buzz as soon as we sort everything out, but are looking now at dates in late August/early September.



Blogger on Facebook & Twitter

Yes, Blogger has its own brand-new fan page on Facebook. Drop in to say hello to the Blogger Team, network with other like-minded bloggers, and share cool blogs.

Our Twitter page is another great resource for the latest Blogger info, announcements, launches, and service updates.



As always, we’ve been listening closely to your feedback and will continue to do so with anything that we’re working on. If you have specific feedback about features we’ve released, you can always let us know via our Help Forum. Our ears are always open, and often it is your voice that ultimately drives our development process. So if you have something to pass along, please speak up.

Thanks again for using Blogger!

- The Blogger Team

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Announcing Blogger and Amazon.com Integration

Do you link to Amazon.com in your blog posts? If so, a recent Blogger integration may be just the thing for you. Blogger now integrates directly with Amazon Associates, giving you the ability to search the entire Amazon.com product catalog without ever leaving the Blogger post editor. Writing a review of Avatar and want to point your readers to the DVD that just came out? Not only can you link to the DVD, you can also include the cover art and buy it now info from Amazon so your readers know how much it costs without ever leaving your site.

You might even make some money in the process! Amazon pays an advertising fee to a Blogger user who is a participant in Amazon's Associates Program* and whose visitors buy products linked from their blog. Sign up is simple - just click on the Monetize tab in Blogger, then click on Amazon Associates to get started. Once enabled, you will see a new Amazon gadget next to the familiar Blogger post editor:

Whether you want to make some extra money, or you just want to add some pizzazz to your blog posts, the Amazon Associates integration is a great way to add color to any blog post about books, movies, electronics, music or any other product sold at Amazon.com.

More details at Blogger Buzz, or just click Monetize in your blog's dashboard to get started.

Thanks for using Blogger!

Regards,

The Blogger Team

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Express yourself with the Blogger Template Designer

We’re excited to announce that the Blogger Template Designer is now available on Blogger in draft, Blogger’s experimental playground.

The Blogger Template Designer makes it easy to customize the look and feel of your blog without knowing any HTML or CSS. Here are a few of the new features available in the Blogger Template Designer:

  • Beautiful new templates to start from
  • Custom blog layouts with one, two and three columns
  • Hundreds of background images
  • Customizable colors, fonts, and more...

What are you waiting for? Express yourself in style with the Blogger Template Designer. Learn more at www.blogger.com/templates.

The Blogger Team

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

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The Jerusalem Quandary
July 25, 2009 at 9:42 pm

By Alan Caruba

I have often wondered why it is such a tiny nation as Israel commands so much news coverage. Having declared its sovereignty in 1948, it is now just over sixty years old.
David Ben-Gurion went on the radio and said, "Two thousand years of wandering have come to an end."

The name, Israel, means "he who wrestles with God." The wandering began after the Jews had lived in Israel for over a thousand years, after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and drove them out in 70 AD.

Israel has fought and won wars intended to annihilate it. Zionism, a new Jewish state, began as the dream in the late 1800s among European and Russian Jews seeking to escape anti-Semitism. It became a place of refuge for Holocaust survivors in the late 1940s and for Jews who were forced to flee Middle Eastern nations.

For a relatively new nation, it has held the attention of the world from the day it was reborn in the sweat and blood of Jews seeking a place where being Jewish was normal, accepted, unexceptional.

To gain an extraordinary insight, I recommend you read Rich Cohen's "Israel is Real: An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and its History" ($26.00, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), possibly one of the best books I have read in decades about the astonishing history of Israel from its earliest to the present times. It is filled with stories of the people who built the First Temple and, after the destruction of the Second Tempe, as Cohen says, "turned the Temple into a book", praying for the next two millennia, "Next year in Jerusalem."

The real Jews and real Israel are obscured by the hatred attached to them by their Muslim enemies and other antagonists, but there are many who now refer to themselves as Christian Zionists because to be a Zionist is to advocate a land for the Jews. As Cohen puts it, to be Christian is to be Jewish without actually being Jewish.

The quandary of Jerusalem is that three major religions lay claim to it. To be Jewish, to be Christian, even to be Muslim, Jerusalem is considered holy, but its long history has been a litany of bloodletting as claimants sought to legitimatize their faiths with its possession.

What the original Zionists discovered was that Israel, called Palestine at the time because of the British mandate over it, was not "a land without people for a people without a land" or that its history ended after the Jews were driven out by the Romans to become the Diaspora living among other nations.

As Cohen notes, "The Zionist ideology was beautiful, but for the pioneers to fulfill it, the Arabs could not exist." They did, however, exist. The quandary, the conundrum of Jerusalem and of Israel is that the dynamics of demography, of birth statistics, puts the existence of the Jewish state at risk. The Arabs were there. The Arabs are there.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the Arabs did not wish to yield an inch of the land in 1948 and do not wish to do so now. They do not want a "two-state solution." They want what the Nazis called "The final solution."

For the early pioneers of Israel, its reestablishment was a form of redemption. As one of its founding rabbis, Abraham Kook expressed it the purpose of the Jew is to bring the divine idea into the world. To bring this idea to fruition, to bring the Lord back into the lives of man, he said, the Jews must return to Zion. His son, Ziv Yeshiva Kook, called the Holocaust a "cruel divine operation needed to lift (the Jews) up to the land of Israel against their wills."

The Holocaust, however, was more like the fulfillment of the hope of anti-Semites, the extermination of Jews from the Earth. It has something to do with the role Jews have played in relationship to the one God three major faiths lay claim. The Jews are happy to share their God with others, but insist that some rules be obeyed in the process.

Jews living in America had already found their Zion, a place where Jews could live normal lives. At the turn of the century, Jewish immigrants overwhelmingly chose America, not Israel.

Before and since Israel's founding, many made "aliyah" (return) and some fifteen percent of them are American born. Since 1967, following a decisive war, more than two hundred Jewish settlements have been built in what are referred to as the territories. In 2005, seeking to exchange land for peace, Israelis were forced to leave Gaza. Israel did not get peace. It got rockets.

Until now, American Presidents have been friendly to Israel, but that has changed with President Barack Hussein Obama. His recent demands to stop the construction of twenty housing units in East Jerusalem are a rebuke to Israel's very existence. Cohen notes that, "There are two hundred thousand Jews living on the West Bank—half of them in East Jerusalem, in neighborhoods (that) Israel insists it will keep in any peace deal."

There will be no peace deal and the Jews of Jerusalem and Israel will continue to lay claim to their nation. They have built a nation, but in doing so, they have transformed themselves, often in ways even they don't like.

The fly in the ointment is Iran's development of a nuclear weapon and its constant threats to "wipe Israel off the map."

The new generation of Iranians protesting in the streets has to hurry up and remove the evil mullahs and ayatollahs holding their ancient nation back from its full potential, from freedom. Israel cannot wait forever to end an atomic, existential threat. If it must, it will once again re-write the history of the Middle East.

Page after Page of Reasons to Hate Obamacare
July 25, 2009 at 11:30 am

Here are just a few very good reasons to hate Obamacare:

• Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!


• Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!


• Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)


• Page 42: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.


• Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.


• Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.


• Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.


• Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)


• Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.


• Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)


• Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens


• Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.


• Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.


• Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.


• Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.


• Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.


• Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.


• Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll


• Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll


• Page 167: Any individual who doesnt' have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.


• Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).


• Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.


• Page 203: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.• Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."


• Page 241: Doctors: no matter what speciality you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)


• Page 253: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.


• Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.


• Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.


• Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!


• Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.


• Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.


• Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!


• Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.


• Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.


• Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.


• Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.


• Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.


• Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).


• Page 425: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?


• Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.


• Page 425: Goverment provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.


• Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.


• Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.


• Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.


• Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.


• Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.


• Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.


• Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.


A tip of my hat to my friend, Ben Cerruti, for providing this look at the Obamanation called Obamacare. Write, email, fax or call your Senators and your Representative and tell them to vote NO!
 

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