showDraftBlog({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-11-27T14:06:59.294-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blogger in Draft"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"News and discussion about the features tested on Blogger in Draft."},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/-/homepage?alt\u003djson-in-script"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/homepage"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Siobhan Quinn"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/14908970658480399870"},"email":{"$t":"siobhan@gmail.com"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"22"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"25"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-2077829445051060312"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-13T10:54:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-13T10:54:00.774-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new post editor"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Autosave and Automatic Date and Time"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SZWUBGTgmcI/AAAAAAAAAus/grQPrbxtSQ8/s1600-h/date-and-time.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SZWUBGTgmcI/AAAAAAAAAus/grQPrbxtSQ8/s320/date-and-time.png\" style\u003d\"cursor: move;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003eWe’ve recently added two new features to the post editor on Blogger in draft: \u003cb\u003eautosave\u003c/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eautomatic date and time\u003c/b\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eAutosave\u003c/b\u003e is a feature we’ve had for a while on the old post editor, and it does what you’d expect: automatically save your draft posts when you pause in your typing. We’ve brought the same convenience and safety to the new post editor.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWith \u003cb\u003eautomatic date and time\u003c/b\u003e, your posts will now be timestamped with the date and time that they’re published, not the date and time when you first opened the post editor (as has been the case). You can of course still explicitly set the date and time by opening \u003cb\u003ePost Options\u003c/b\u003e and switching to \u003cb\u003eScheduled at\u003c/b\u003e instead. Once a post is published, it will keep its date by default, even if you go\u0026nbsp;back even if you go back to edit the post and re-publish.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-2077829445051060312?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/2077829445051060312/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2009/02/autosave-and-automatic-date-and-time.html#comment-form","title":"246 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/2077829445051060312"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/2077829445051060312"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2009/02/autosave-and-automatic-date-and-time.html","title":"Autosave and Automatic Date and Time"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SZWUBGTgmcI/AAAAAAAAAus/grQPrbxtSQ8/s72-c/date-and-time.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"246"},"georss$point":{"$t":"37.400465 -122.073003"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-3426178614394090696"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-10T13:14:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-11T04:30:38.041-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"geotagging"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new post editor"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: Geotagging"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/STbG5xnF-AI/AAAAAAAAAqU/RcH3AiUlOJ0/s1600-h/geotagging-2.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/STbG5xnF-AI/AAAAAAAAAqU/RcH3AiUlOJ0/s320/geotagging-2.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eWe’ve just added \u003cb\u003egeotagging\u003c/b\u003e to the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/new%20post%20editor\"\u003enew post editor\u003c/a\u003e on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003eBlogger in draft\u003c/a\u003e. With geotagging, you can add a location to your each of your blog posts. Just as time stamps help readers find posts from a certain date or time, geotags give your readers a way to browse posts near a specific location.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAdding a geotag to your post is easy. Log into \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003edraft.blogger.com\u003c/a\u003e, open the post editor, and \u003cb\u003eclick the add location link below the main text field\u003c/b\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUse the location editor to \u003cb\u003esearch, drag, click and zoom on a map to choose and save a location\u003c/b\u003e. We’ll try to label the location you choose using our reverse geocoder, which looks up a name for a point on the map. You can also \u003cb\u003eedit the location name\u003c/b\u003e by clicking the blue location name text below the search field.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhen you publish your post, the geotag\u003cb\u003e is displayed below your blog post as a link\u003c/b\u003e, which will open up \u003ca href\u003d\"http://maps.google.com/\"\u003eGoogle Maps\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe also include each post’s location in your blog’s RSS and Atom feeds using \u003ca href\u003d\"http://georss.org/\"\u003eGeoRSS\u003c/a\u003e, a standard for geotagging. This means that feed readers, map applications and search engines can associate your posts with their locations.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/STbKSISOdqI/AAAAAAAAAqc/BgF7sD1XMyA/s1600-h/add-your-own.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/STbKSISOdqI/AAAAAAAAAqc/BgF7sD1XMyA/s200/add-your-own.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003eWe’re still working on other ways to show geotag information on your blog. Brian, the Google engineer who created this feature in his \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page\u003dabout.html\u0026amp;about\u003deng\"\u003e20% time\u003c/a\u003e, has written a gadget that will display your posts on a map. To add it to your blog, click “Add Your Own” on the “Add a Gadget” page and paste in this URL: \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;\"\u003ehttp://blogmap-gadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blogmap.xml\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGeotagging has a few \u003cb\u003eknown issues\u003c/b\u003e. We'll be addressing them shortly, but here are some suggested workarounds for the near-term:\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003elocation editor is hidden\u003c/span\u003e behind the text field in the Edit HTML tab. Please \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eswitch to the \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eCompose tab\u003c/span\u003e to view and edit locations. \u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003egeotag cannot be removed\u003c/span\u003e from a post once it has been saved. If you need to remove a geotag, please copy your post content into a new post and delete the geotagged post.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate 2:33pm\u003c/span\u003e: If you have a \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ecustomized template\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;and you don't see the \"Location:\" byline, you may need to reset your blog's widget template. Do this by going to the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLayout \u0026gt; Edit HTML\u003c/span\u003e tab in your dashboard, and then clicking \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRevert widget templates to default\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;below the main text field.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate 2:33 pm\u003c/span\u003e: Some users are having issues with the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eblog post map gadget\u003c/span\u003e. Brian is investigating.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eWhat types of posts are you adding a location to? What other functionality would you like to see in this feature? \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLeave us a comment\u003c/span\u003e and let us know what you think!\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-3426178614394090696?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/3426178614394090696/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-feature-geotagging.html#comment-form","title":"175 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3426178614394090696"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3426178614394090696"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-feature-geotagging.html","title":"New feature: Geotagging"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Brian"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/11937351593016412062"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"00596669781930781648"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/STbG5xnF-AI/AAAAAAAAAqU/RcH3AiUlOJ0/s72-c/geotagging-2.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"175"},"georss$point":{"$t":"47.64891076849534 -122.35108852386475"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-2579283050954939053"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-14T09:40:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-02T15:22:40.568-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"contact picker"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Feature: Contact Picker"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SR2scmMR87I/AAAAAAAAAqE/6WJ0V7XWeps/s1600-h/choosefromcontacts.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SR2scmMR87I/AAAAAAAAAqE/6WJ0V7XWeps/s320/choosefromcontacts.png\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eWe’re making it easy to use your existing Gmail contacts in Blogger. We’ve added a “Choose from contacts” link below some of your blog’s settings fields, such as \u003cb\u003eComment \u0026gt; Comment Notification Email\u003c/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eEmail \u0026gt; BlogSend Address\u003c/b\u003e. Click the link to bring up a window with your Gmail contacts list.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCurrently we don’t have the picker built in to the \u003cb\u003ePermissions \u003c/b\u003esettings, but we’re working on it. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFinding your contacts ok? Any problems? Let us know in the comments.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-2579283050954939053?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/2579283050954939053/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-feature-contact-picker.html#comment-form","title":"36 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/2579283050954939053"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/2579283050954939053"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-feature-contact-picker.html","title":"New Feature: Contact Picker"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SR2scmMR87I/AAAAAAAAAqE/6WJ0V7XWeps/s72-c/choosefromcontacts.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"36"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-7395896711492700080"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-23T10:17:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-02-02T15:25:13.181-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"embedded comment form"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reactions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"import export"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Feature Updates and Bug Fixes for September 23rd"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We’ve just released a few fixes to some of the features currently here on \u003cb\u003eBlogger in draft\u003c/b\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eReactions\u003c/b\u003e gets some visual improvements, including fixes for display in IE 6 and overall spacing fixes. We’ve also tweaked the HTML and images to make it load a bit more quickly.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe’ve fixed an \u003cb\u003eImport / Export \u003c/b\u003ebug that was truncating the export of comments. Also, importing scheduled posts will keep them scheduled instead of publishing them immediately.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe’re bringing the \u003cb\u003eEmbedded Comment Form\u003c/b\u003e closer to feature parity with the full page comment form by adding e-mail subscription for follow up comments. If you’re logged in, you can now also subscribe to comments without posting one of your own. We’ve also added improved color matching in the form for all browsers.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-7395896711492700080?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/7395896711492700080/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/09/feature-updates-and-bug-fixes-for.html#comment-form","title":"147 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7395896711492700080"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7395896711492700080"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/09/feature-updates-and-bug-fixes-for.html","title":"Feature Updates and Bug Fixes for September 23rd"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"147"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-3954346059462784294"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-14T18:00:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-10T18:41:29.212-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reactions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new dashboard"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"import export"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new post editor"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Features and Bug Fixes for August 14th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Today’s release to Blogger in draft brings one new feature: \u003cb\u003eReactions\u003c/b\u003e, which are customizable one-click buttons below your posts. Read more on our \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-feature-reactions.html\"\u003eannouncement post\u003c/a\u003e, and try them out on this blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe’ve added better show/hide controls and brought back the post count and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/\"\u003eBlogs of Note\u003c/a\u003e to the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/new%20dashboard\"\u003enew dashboard\u003c/a\u003e, and published it to the main Blogger site.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn case you missed it, we \u003ca href\u003d\"http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/07/spice-up-your-blog-with-google-gadgets.html\"\u003emoved Google Gadgets and the gadget directory\u003c/a\u003e to the main Blogger site as well.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis release also has some fixes to other Blogger in draft features:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Post Editor\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEdit HTML mode now has a toolbar.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e The Compose toolbar gets a fifth font size, and “Normal” should now more correctly match the font size on your blog.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eNewly added images will correctly pick up the border styles from your blog’s template.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eImport / Export\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eBasic settings are now saved and restored.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eTemplates (both Classic and Layouts) are saved and restored.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eExporting a blog will now cause the XML file to download in Safari.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eImport blog messaging now distinguishes between published and draft posts.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-3954346059462784294?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/3954346059462784294/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/08/features-and-bug-fixes-for-august-14th.html#comment-form","title":"70 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3954346059462784294"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3954346059462784294"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/08/features-and-bug-fixes-for-august-14th.html","title":"Features and Bug Fixes for August 14th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"70"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-8406587462948762712"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-14T17:45:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-11-10T18:44:08.163-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"reactions"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: Reactions"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"With our new Reactions feature, you can get \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eone-click feedback from your readers\u003c/span\u003e. Think of it as a mini-poll for each blog post, or a flexible version of \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-star-ratings.html\"\u003estar ratings\u003c/a\u003e because \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eyou customize what options are available\u003c/span\u003e.  We hope this will help your blogs get feedback from people who read your posts but don’t have enough to say to for a full comment.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth9pQAolI/AAAAAAAAAJI/4mrFZeqIIlQ/s1600-h/defaults.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth9pQAolI/AAAAAAAAAJI/zHSrKDa8Hco/s400-R/defaults.png\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth4689q_I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Q6RCEIgAXno/s1600-h/Configure2.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth4689q_I/AAAAAAAAAJA/1pzxLGZWmtI/s200-R/Configure2.png\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eTo enable Reactions, log in to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003ehttp://draft.blogger.com/\u003c/a\u003e and go to your Layouts page. From there, click the “Edit” link for the Blog Posts gadget and then check the “Reactions” checkbox. You can edit the Reactions buttons by clicking \"Edit\" or clicking the buttons themselves, as shown.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can customize the location of the Reactions within the post by dragging the preview around in the “Arrange Items” box. We’ve found that it looks best when it’s on its own line, but your mileage may vary.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth-_N_VPI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/obOu9WSagms/s1600-h/black.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJtiA7QR5-I/AAAAAAAAAJg/vPoUilyZDiM/s1600-R/pink.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJtiA7QR5-I/AAAAAAAAAJg/vPoUilyZDiM/s400-R/pink.png\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can customize the options and their label to match the theme and style of your blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth-_N_VPI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/zLIydfEzla8/s1600-R/black.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth-_N_VPI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/zLIydfEzla8/s400-R/black.png\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth_405sWI/AAAAAAAAAJY/gBb08P-Td8M/s1600-h/blue.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border: 0pt none; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth_405sWI/AAAAAAAAAJY/fOnAN5hKGHI/s400-R/blue.png\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdditional Notes\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThis is a Layouts-only feature. If you’re using a Classic template you’ll need to upgrade to Layouts to add Reactions.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe buttons should blend seamlessly with most blog backgrounds. Button backgrounds are a mostly transparent grey which should, we hope, coordinate with everything. The text and button highlight colors for the ratings are taken from the following \u003ca href\u003d\"http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer\u003d46871\u0026amp;topic\u003d12488\"\u003eskin variables\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eForeground: \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-family: 'courier new', monospace;\"\u003etextcolor\u003c/span\u003e,  \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-family: 'courier new', monospace;\"\u003etextColor, mainTextColor\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHighlight: \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-family: 'courier new', monospace;\"\u003elinkcolor, linkC\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-family: 'courier new', monospace;\"\u003eolor, mainLinkColor\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIf you have customized your blog widget’s template you may not see the reactions. You will need to either reset your blog widget’s template or copy the Reactions code from a fresh template. Search for “reactions-buttons” to find the appropriate block of code.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eA known issue: if you choose short words/phrases, it’s possible to enter enough options that the line of buttons will wrap (and not look very good). If this happens to you, you'll need to shorten your options or reduce their number. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eWhat do you think? Leave a comment, or just rate this post!\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-8406587462948762712?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/8406587462948762712/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-feature-reactions.html#comment-form","title":"69 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/8406587462948762712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/8406587462948762712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-feature-reactions.html","title":"New feature: Reactions"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Rachel"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHOI7XRQmmo/SJth9pQAolI/AAAAAAAAAJI/zHSrKDa8Hco/s72-Rc/defaults.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"69"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-6364219928115812865"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-26T18:35:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:09.531-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"embedded comment form"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"webmaster tools"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"google gadgets"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new dashboard"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"import export"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new post editor"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"star ratings"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv class\u003d\"separator\" style\u003d\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SGMPMlbDBNI/AAAAAAAAAT8/Xwe3uICiP40/s1600-h/defaultdashboard.png\" imageanchor\u003d\"1\" style\u003d\"background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003e\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SGMPMlbDBNI/AAAAAAAAAT8/OngnDbikc1E/s320-R/defaultdashboard.png\" style\u003d\"border-width: 0px;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003eToday’s Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let’s lead off with the quick stuff:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eGoogle Gadget integration continues to improve, with \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ebetter editing of gadget preferences\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks, including a new button style that we’re trying out and, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eby popular demand, the “show all blogs” toggle is now sticky\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe subscribe page element has been \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003epublished\u003c/span\u003e to WWW.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe’ve \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eadded a “Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard” to the Blogger in Draft dashboard\u003c/span\u003e, so now you don’t have to remember to type “draft.blogger.com” instead of “www.blogger.com.”\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eSo you can easily keep up with the news, we’ve \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eadded this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eBut that’s not what you came here for. You wanted this:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/webmaster-tools-for-blogger.html\"\u003eWebmaster Tools Verification\u003c/a\u003e. \u003c/span\u003eTurn this on to automatically add and verify all your blogs on Google’s \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools\"\u003eWebmaster Tools\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-star-ratings.html\"\u003eStar ratings\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/b\u003e Add a 0–5 star rating control to the bottom of your posts so that your readers can rate them.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-import-and-export.html\"\u003eImport / export of blogs\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/span\u003e Back up all of your posts and comments to one Atom XML file on your computer, and import your posts from one blog to another.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-embedded-comment-form.html\"\u003eEmbedded comment form\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/span\u003e By incredibly popular demand, we’ve brought the comment form to your blog’s post pages, with support for Google Account and OpenID authentication.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-new-post-editor.html\"\u003eNew post editor\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/span\u003e We’ve completely revised the post editor, bringing in drag-and-drop image placement and better HTML handling.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eAs always, these features are on Blogger in Draft because we’re not done with them and we’re looking for your feedback. \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ePlease read the posts for each of the features before trying them\u003c/span\u003e so that you know what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you leave comments! These are big features for us, so we want to get them right before we turn them on for everyone.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-6364219928115812865?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/6364219928115812865/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/updates-and-bug-fixes-for-june-26th.html#comment-form","title":"75 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6364219928115812865"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6364219928115812865"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/updates-and-bug-fixes-for-june-26th.html","title":"Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/SGMPMlbDBNI/AAAAAAAAAT8/OngnDbikc1E/s72-Rc/defaultdashboard.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"75"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-750741761887353871"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-05T12:45:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.028-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"posting gadget"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Feature: Posting Gadget for iGoogle"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003cdiv style\u003d\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fhUhlx5KK-0/SEXigI62oSI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lh4PJ7WtH1M/s1600-h/post_gadget_screenshot.png\" onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"\" border\u003d\"0\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207817585901871394\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fhUhlx5KK-0/SEXigI62oSI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lh4PJ7WtH1M/s320/post_gadget_screenshot.png\" style\u003d\"cursor: pointer; float: right;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/div\u003eToday we’re launching a draft version of the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlogger Posting Gadget\u003c/span\u003e for \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/ig\"\u003eiGoogle\u003c/a\u003e. With this gadget, you can write, save, and publish posts to any of your Blogger blogs directly from iGoogle.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eInterested?\u003c/span\u003e Try it now: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://fusion.google.com/add?source\u003datgs\u0026amp;moduleurl\u003dhttp%3A//www.blogger.com/gadgets/post.xml\"\u003e\u003cimg alt\u003d\"Add to Google\" border\u003d\"0\" src\u003d\"http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif\" style\u003d\"border: medium none;\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMake sure you’re signed in with the same Google account you use on Blogger in order to start posting.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCurrently, the gadget supports the following:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eEditing the HTML of title, body and labels\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eA drop-down menu to select from multiple blogs (if you have them)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe ability to publish a post immediately, or save it back to Blogger as a draft post\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eTip:\u003c/span\u003e If you start writing a post in HTML and decide that you want image uploading or other rich text features, just click “Save Draft.” The gadget will save the post, then give you a link to directly edit the post in Blogger.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSome compatibility notes:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Blogger posting gadget \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ewill only work in iGoogle\u003c/span\u003e, not in other gadget containers, because it requires authenticating with your google.com cookie. We hope to remove this restriction in the future.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eSince this gadget uses the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/developers_guide_js.html\"\u003eJavaScript Google Data API for Blogger\u003c/a\u003e, it \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003edoes not work in Apple’s Safari browser\u003c/span\u003e. We hope to fix this in the future as well.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cs\u003eWe’re also hearing reports that \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ethe gadget is not working correctly in Internet Explorer\u003c/span\u003e. We’re looking into this.\u003c/s\u003e Now works in Internet Explorer; you may need to remove and re-add the gadget to pick up the fix.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eWhile there’s still a bit we’d like to do with the gadget, we want to announce it first on Blogger in Draft to get your feedback. Some of the improvements we’re considering are:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAvailability in all of Blogger’s supported languages\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eAuto-completion for labels\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eAutosaving of posts\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cli\u003eRich text editing\u003c/li\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eWhat’s on your list? Let us know in the comments.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 3:15PM: \u003c/span\u003eAdded compatibility note about Internet Explorer.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 6/10:\u003c/span\u003e Fixed to work in Internet Explorer.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-750741761887353871?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/750741761887353871/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-posting-gadget-for-igoogle.html#comment-form","title":"25 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/750741761887353871"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/750741761887353871"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-posting-gadget-for-igoogle.html","title":"New Feature: Posting Gadget for iGoogle"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Andy"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fhUhlx5KK-0/SEXigI62oSI/AAAAAAAAAAU/lh4PJ7WtH1M/s72-c/post_gadget_screenshot.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"25"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-7107720925379494095"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-05T12:20:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.166-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"new dashboard"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Feature: New Dashboard"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wfmbIeD3fPY/SEgiWzIKQ0I/AAAAAAAAAqE/brAw0CW17rI/s1600-h/dash.JPG\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wfmbIeD3fPY/SEgiWzIKQ0I/AAAAAAAAAqE/brAw0CW17rI/s400/dash.JPG\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208450744130880322\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eOur old dashboard was getting a little cramped, so we reorganized things and gave everything a fresh, new look. You can see this now by logging in to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003eBlogger in draft\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe new dashboard contains all of the same information that the old one did, but rearranged to emphasize the most important content and changes (and with a little more room for future goodness).\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBy default, only some of your blogs are shown in the dashboard, although there’s a link you can click to display all of them. The blogs we show by default include the two blogs you most recently published to, as well as any with unmoderated comments or ToS/spam warnings.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePlease try this out and let us know what you think in the comments! Your feedback is an important part of our design process and we’d like to know what you think before we release this re-design out into the wild.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRemember:\u003c/span\u003e Not sure where some of your blogs went? Click the “Display all blogs” link at the bottom.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-7107720925379494095?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/7107720925379494095/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-new-dashboard.html#comment-form","title":"32 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7107720925379494095"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7107720925379494095"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/new-feature-new-dashboard.html","title":"New Feature: New Dashboard"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Henry"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/06670599211224081030"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"10417215619531403300"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wfmbIeD3fPY/SEgiWzIKQ0I/AAAAAAAAAqE/brAw0CW17rI/s72-c/dash.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"32"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-3831694081368992229"},"published":{"$t":"2008-06-05T10:40:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-05T10:41:03.950-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"google gadgets"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blog list"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for June 6th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Today we have a couple of new features (more on those later in the day) and some bug fixes. We’ve also published Blog List, so it’s now available to everyone on the main Blogger site.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere are the highlights:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/google%20gadgets\"\u003eGoogle Gadget page element\u003c/a\u003e configuration has been greatly improved. We’ve fixed a number of cosmetic and functionality issues in this area. Try it out with the new unified \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/04/unified-gadget-page-element-directory.html\"\u003eGadget and Page Element directory\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAdding feed URLs to a Blog List directly now works reliably for all supported feed types.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eAdding a blog with no detected feed to a Blog List now triggers a warning dialog and icon.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eEverything working ok for you? Let us know in the comments.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-3831694081368992229?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/3831694081368992229/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-june-6th.html#comment-form","title":"34 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3831694081368992229"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3831694081368992229"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/06/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-june-6th.html","title":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for June 6th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"34"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-6364304134826195890"},"published":{"$t":"2008-05-09T10:30:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-05T10:43:12.338-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"google gadgets"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blog list"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for May 9th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We’ve made a handful of fixes to improve \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-feature-blog-list.html\"\u003eBlog List\u003c/a\u003e:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA “See All” link when you’ve truncated the list\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIcon loading is deferred for better page responsiveness\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePost title now links to post’s permalink\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eNewly-added blogs are highlighted on the configuration page\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eMore reliable adding and removing of blogs, and better feed and title detection\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eIf you’ve customized the Blog List widget template at all via Edit HTML, you will need to reset the template to get some of these new features.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe’ve also made some visual and reliability fixes to the new \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/04/unified-gadget-page-element-directory.html\"\u003eGadgets directory\u003c/a\u003e, particularly around adding custom gadgets.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eNote:\u003c/span\u003e we’re looking into reports of bX-e441ek errors for some people who have added Blog List to their blogs. We hope to have a fix out for this presently.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-6364304134826195890?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/6364304134826195890/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-may-9th.html#comment-form","title":"36 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6364304134826195890"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6364304134826195890"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-may-9th.html","title":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for May 9th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"36"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-3057373534469026499"},"published":{"$t":"2008-04-21T08:11:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-06-05T10:43:23.196-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blog list"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scheduled posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for April 21st"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca href\u003d\"http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/04/updates-and-bug-fixes-for-april-18th.html\"\u003eLast week’s release\u003c/a\u003e fixed several bugs with blog list and scheduled posts:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eScheduled Posts\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eScheduled FTP publishes now work.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ePosts published via scheduling will trigger BlogSend emails.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eGeneral reliability improvements.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003ePlease try these out if you were having trouble with scheduled posts. We’re aiming to take this feature out of draft in the fairly near term, so we’d like to make sure that everything works.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlog List\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eImproved Blog List update reliability.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eFixed bX codes on Blog*Spot when certain sites are added to a Blog List.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eRemoved bolding of blog titles.\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eUsability and cosmetic improvements to the Blog List configuration dialog.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-3057373534469026499?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/3057373534469026499/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-april.html#comment-form","title":"45 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3057373534469026499"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3057373534469026499"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/04/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-april.html","title":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for April 21st"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"45"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-1936531586117604103"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-29T11:02:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-03-06T08:19:31.259-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blog list"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"scheduled posts"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for Feburary 29th"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We pushed out a few bug fixes to the latest Blogger in draft features last night:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eRenaming of feeds in the Blog List now works\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eCorrect cache invalidation so that changes to Blog List subscriptions will now be reflected immediately\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eScheduled posts now have correct permalinks\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eEnjoy!\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdel\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdate, 3/4:\u003c/b\u003e Unfortunately the permalink problem for scheduled posts is not solved.\u003c/del\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cins\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdate, 3/6:\u003c/b\u003e The permalink problem has been fixed.\u003c/ins\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-1936531586117604103?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/1936531586117604103"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/1936531586117604103"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/02/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-feburary.html","title":"Blogger in Draft Bug Fixes for Feburary 29th"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-4211460633726080958"},"published":{"$t":"2008-02-12T20:00:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.529-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"blog list"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Feature: Blog List"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/R7IMjpFo8mI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/NdHla9mcQeY/s1600-h/reader-import.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/R7IMjpFo8mI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/NdHla9mcQeY/s320/reader-import.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166205529011843682\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eBloggers often feature a list of their favorite blogs, called a “blogroll,” in the sidebar of their own blog. Our latest page element, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlog List\u003c/span\u003e, helps you do just that, but we’ve mixed it in with \u003ca href\u003d\"http://reader.google.com/\"\u003eGoogle Reader\u003c/a\u003e to make it even more powerful and useful.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAt its most basic, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlog List displays a list of links to your favorite blogs\u003c/span\u003e, with an optional icon. If you link to a blog with an Atom or RSS feed, however, the Blog List can show the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003edate of the blog’s last update\u003c/span\u003e or even the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003etitle and snippet of its most recent post\u003c/span\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can set the number of blogs to show in the list and whether they should be sorted by update time or alphabetically by blog title.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou add blogs to your Blog List by entering blog or feed URLs directly, or by importing subscriptions from Google Reader. When you add by URL, Blogger will attempt to detect an Atom or RSS feed for it in order to show post and update information. If none is found, the blog will still be added to the Blog List, just as a simple link.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePlease try this out! Add a Blog List (Or two! Or more!) to your blog and let us know what you think in the comments. We value your feedback, and will try to incorporate as much as we can before the Blog List goes big-time on www.blogger.com.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class\u003d\"Apple-style-span\" style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRemember: \u003c/span\u003eLike all features mentioned on this blog, you must log in to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003ehttp://draft.blogger.com/\u003c/a\u003e to add a Blog List.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdditional Notes\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Blog List writes all links out in HTML so that, unlike JavaScript-based blogrolls, you pass \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer\u003d49215\"\u003ePageRank\u003c/a\u003e goodness on to the blogs you link to.\u003c/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003eThe icon next to a feed is taken from the \u003ccode\u003efavicon.ico\u003c/code\u003e file in the blog’s home directory. We currently do not support the “shortcut icon” link tag.\u003c/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e\u003cdel\u003eAdding and removing blogs may not invalidate our cached version of your blog. If you’re having trouble seeing your changes, republish a post or make a small settings change to your blog.\u003c/del\u003e \u003cins\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 2/29:\u003c/span\u003e This has been \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/02/blogger-in-draft-bug-fixes-for-feburary.html\"\u003efixed\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/ins\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSome blogs don’t link to their Atom and RSS feeds in a way that we can detect. In these cases, add the feed URL to the Blog List for best results.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eOnly the blog admin who added the Blog List may edit and configure it. Why is that? You’ll find out later...\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-4211460633726080958?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/4211460633726080958/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-feature-blog-list.html#comment-form","title":"144 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/4211460633726080958"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/4211460633726080958"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-feature-blog-list.html","title":"New Feature: Blog List"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"estebangs"},"email":{"$t":"estebangs@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"08349337641990808718"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/R7IMjpFo8mI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/NdHla9mcQeY/s72-c/reader-import.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"144"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-7301379238160277541"},"published":{"$t":"2008-01-17T11:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.594-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"openid"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R40sKMSreMI/AAAAAAAABcU/qIFAfaCqfHw/s1600-h/openIDlogin.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R40sKMSreMI/AAAAAAAABcU/qIFAfaCqfHw/s400/openIDlogin.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155825702018971842\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eAs we \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html\"\u003ehinted before\u003c/a\u003e, we’ve been working on making Blogger an OpenID provider. With our latest Blogger in Draft release, we’ve done just that. You can now \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003euse your blog’s URL as an OpenID URL\u003c/span\u003e on any website that accepts OpenID 1.1 authentication.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTo enable OpenID for your blogs, just \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/edit-profile.g\"\u003eedit your profile on \u003ccode\u003edraft.blogger.com\u003c/code\u003e\u003c/a\u003e and enable the checkbox which says \u003cb\u003eEnable OpenID for Blogs\u003c/b\u003e and you are all set!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R40r8sSreLI/AAAAAAAABcM/s-IFsKkk52A/s1600-h/OpenIDEnable4.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R40r8sSreLI/AAAAAAAABcM/s-IFsKkk52A/s400/OpenIDEnable4.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155825470090737842\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eAfter checking this box, you can use the URL of any of the blogs you are an admin of as an OpenID identity. When you use it to log in to another site, you will be taken back to Blogger where you can confirm that Blogger can tell the site that you own the domain.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can find more information about OpenID and how it works at \u003ca href\u003d\"http://openid.net/\"\u003eOpenID.net\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe hope you’ll try out using your blog as your OpenID identity around the web. Let us know how it goes in the comments! If you’re looking for things to do, take a look at \u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.myopenid.com/directory\"\u003eMyOpenID’s OpenID Site Directory\u003c/a\u003e for OpenID-enabled sites.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSince this feature is still in draft, there are a few caveats:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWe currently do not support OpenID for blogs that aren’t hosted on Blog*Spot or a custom domain, such as FTP blogs. However, the OpenID web site has a \u003cspan style\u003d\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\"\u003e\u003ca title\u003d\"help page\" href\u003d\"http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-1_1.html#delegating_authentication\" id\u003d\"gj9l\"\u003ehelp page\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e that explains how to workaround this limitation by delegating your FTP blog to a Blogger-hosted blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIf you say “Yes, Always” to trust an OpenID site forever, you cannot now delete that trust. We will add this feature soon.\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ol\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 1/29:\u003c/span\u003e We have a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/01/using-bloggers-openid-with-any-url.html\"\u003equick HOWTO post for delegating to Blogger\u003c/a\u003e as your OpenID provider.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-7301379238160277541?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/7301379238160277541/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-feature-blogger-as-openid-provider.html#comment-form","title":"65 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7301379238160277541"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/7301379238160277541"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-feature-blogger-as-openid-provider.html","title":"New feature: Blogger as OpenID provider"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Prashant"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"00093415347932206137"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R40sKMSreMI/AAAAAAAABcU/qIFAfaCqfHw/s72-c/openIDlogin.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"65"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-313388781167663531"},"published":{"$t":"2007-12-14T13:33:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-01-17T16:18:41.836-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"openid"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"OpenID Commenting Update"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"OpenID commenting is now \u003ca href\u003d\"http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/12/openid-commenting.html\"\u003elive\u003c/a\u003e for all Blogger users, not just Draft users. A few updates with this release:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOpenID icons now appear on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer\u003d42048\"\u003ePost Pages\u003c/a\u003e in addition to comment.g; they have their own CSS class (\u003ccode\u003eopenid-comment-icon\u003c/code\u003e) in case you'd like to customize their display\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eNicknames with \"www\" in their URLs are now correctly parsed\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eComments from Blogger/Google accounts now have the Blogger favicon\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003eIf your blog allows anonymous comments, OpenID-signed comments are enabled by default.  Otherwise, you can turn on OpenID signed comments by restricting your \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWho Can Comment?\u003c/span\u003e setting to \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRegistered Users - includes OpenID\u003c/span\u003e.  This will exclude anonymous commenters.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-313388781167663531?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/313388781167663531/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/12/openid-commenting-update.html#comment-form","title":"49 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/313388781167663531"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/313388781167663531"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/12/openid-commenting-update.html","title":"OpenID Commenting Update"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"49"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-298708707722560079"},"published":{"$t":"2007-12-04T16:25:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.809-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"feed subscription"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: Subscription Links"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Our new Subscription Links page element makes it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog's feeds. We've added one-click subscriptions to six popular feed readers: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/ig\"\u003eiGoogle\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://reader.google.com/\"\u003eGoogle Reader\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloglines.com/\"\u003eBloglines\u003c/a\u003e,\u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.netvibes.com/\"\u003e Netvibes\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href\u003d\"http://newsgator.com/\"\u003eNewsGator\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://my.yahoo.com/\"\u003eMy Yahoo!\u003c/a\u003e. Since you can now put your feed links in your sidebar instead of just at the bottom of your blog, more readers will see them and subscribe to your blog.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R1XwUWwKJpI/AAAAAAAAApA/dYF4WRBAt1Y/s1600-h/subscriptionwidget2.jpg\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R1XwUWwKJpI/AAAAAAAAApA/dYF4WRBAt1Y/s400/subscriptionwidget2.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140278782208910994\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn addition to blog posts, your readers can subscribe to feeds of comments. The comments feed on your blog's homepage contains all comments, while the feeds on post pages only have per-post comments.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWe are launching this feature on Blogger in draft while we gather feedback from you. Are we missing your favorite feed reader? Please let us know what you think in the \u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5585733423857160064\u0026amp;postID\u003d298708707722560079\"\u003ecomments\u003c/a\u003e below.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"Ih2E3d\"\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003eIn case you missed it: if you're looking for more control over your feed, try redirecting it to FeedBurner! \u003ca href\u003d\"http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/07/feedburner_integration_for_blo.php\"\u003eLearn more\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-298708707722560079?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/298708707722560079/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-feature-subscription-links.html#comment-form","title":"53 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/298708707722560079"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/298708707722560079"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-feature-subscription-links.html","title":"New feature: Subscription Links"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Siobhan Quinn"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/14908970658480399870"},"email":{"$t":"siobhan@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"06190074509036675730"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LMD_FWTpU20/R1XwUWwKJpI/AAAAAAAAApA/dYF4WRBAt1Y/s72-c/subscriptionwidget2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"53"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-615127829770576860"},"published":{"$t":"2007-11-29T23:40:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.821-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"openid"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: OpenID commenting"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Blogger in Draft now lets you enable \u003ca href\u003d\"http://openid.net/\"\u003eOpenID\u003c/a\u003e-based commenting, in your blogs' Settings | Comments tab:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/R0yU6Rk5SbI/AAAAAAAAAKI/lTP_Em6gL1s/s1600-h/openid-commenting.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/R0yU6Rk5SbI/AAAAAAAAAKI/lTP_Em6gL1s/s400/openid-commenting.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137645003794368946\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:85%;\"\u003e(OpenID comments work in both the \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eAnyone\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eRegistered Users\u003c/span\u003e modes)\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis means that users of \u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.myopenid.com/directory\"\u003eOpenID-enabled services\u003c/a\u003e — such as \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.livejournal.com/\"\u003eLiveJournal\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.wordpress.com/\"\u003eWordPress\u003c/a\u003e — can comment on your blog using their accounts from those sites, rather than with Blogger/Google accounts:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/R0yVMRk5ScI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/dnl_7OStauw/s1600-h/lj-openid.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/R0yVMRk5ScI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/dnl_7OStauw/s400/lj-openid.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137645313032014274\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eFor example, if you see an OpenID comment with the URL \u003ccode\u003ehttp://brad.livejournal.com/\u003c/code\u003e, you'll know that it was Brad who wrote that comment, and not an impostor.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis feature is in Draft because we'd like to hear feedback about the implementation, and to test it further before moving it to Blogger's main site. We're also working on functionality to let Blogger's URLs (both Blog*Spot and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer\u003d55373\"\u003ecustom domains\u003c/a\u003e) be used for commenting elsewhere on the web.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLet us know how this is working for you in the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5585733423857160064\u0026amp;postID\u003d615127829770576860\"\u003ecomments\u003c/a\u003e below.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 12/3:\u003c/span\u003e We recommend Sam Ruby's \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers\"\u003eOpenID for non-SuperUsers\u003c/a\u003e, which explains how to set up OpenID delegation. Delegation is a way for you to use your own URL for OpenID, but still sign in with AOL, LiveJournal, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eetc.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-615127829770576860?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/615127829770576860/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html#comment-form","title":"378 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/615127829770576860"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/615127829770576860"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-feature-openid-commenting.html","title":"New feature: OpenID commenting"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/R0yU6Rk5SbI/AAAAAAAAAKI/lTP_Em6gL1s/s72-c/openid-commenting.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"378"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-8299764454430946155"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-26T13:10:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.911-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"google gadgets"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New Feature: Gadgets for your Blog"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We’ve added some fun new functionality to \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003eBlogger in Draft\u003c/a\u003e: \u003ca style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\" href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/\"\u003eGoogle Gadgets\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e for your blog\u003c/span\u003e. This feature lets you add pretty much any Google Gadget to your blog’s sidebar.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe Gadget directory is the same one used on \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.google.com/ig/directory\"\u003eiGoogle\u003c/a\u003e, which means there are  \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ethousands \u003c/span\u003eof Gadgets available for you to try. (Note: since most Google Gadgets were designed for iGoogle, they won’t all make sense for display on a blog.)\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe Gadget directory is available directly in Blogger Layouts, in the Template | Page Elements | Add a Page Element popup:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/RyEjYJiQUNI/AAAAAAAAAGA/iLcRLSPrn0k/s1600-h/gadget-draft.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/RyEjYJiQUNI/AAAAAAAAAGA/iLcRLSPrn0k/s400/gadget-draft.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125416748707762386\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eThis is an early version of our integration with Google Gadgets, so there will likely be some rough edges. Let us know what you think in this post’s \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5585733423857160064\u0026amp;postID\u003d8299764454430946155\"\u003ecomments\u003c/a\u003e!\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-8299764454430946155?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/8299764454430946155/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-feature-gadgets-for-your-blog.html#comment-form","title":"82 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/8299764454430946155"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/8299764454430946155"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-feature-gadgets-for-your-blog.html","title":"New Feature: Gadgets for your Blog"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/RyEjYJiQUNI/AAAAAAAAAGA/iLcRLSPrn0k/s72-c/gadget-draft.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"82"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-1633490765041392586"},"published":{"$t":"2007-07-11T15:48:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.926-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"searchbox"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"New feature: Search Box"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We just added a new feature to Blogger in Draft, the Search Box page element:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;\" src\u003d\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/RpVbwLC96OI/AAAAAAAAAC4/vzUDrPfGvdY/s400/search-box.jpg\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086072237341927650\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt uses Google's \u003ca href\u003d\"http://google.com/coop/cse/\"\u003eCustom Search Engine\u003c/a\u003e to dynamically search over your blog's content, as well as anything you've linked to in your blog posts, and even your sidebar-based link lists and blogrolls. In other words, it's really nifty - you can find it in your blog's Template | Page Elements tab, in the \"Add a Page Element\" popup.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMany thanks to the CSE and \u003ca href\u003d\"http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/\"\u003eAjax Search API\u003c/a\u003e teams for their work on this feature. Comments are enabled for this post, so let us know how it works for you!\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-1633490765041392586?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/1633490765041392586/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-feature-search-box.html#comment-form","title":"187 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/1633490765041392586"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/1633490765041392586"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-feature-search-box.html","title":"New feature: Search Box"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Eric"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pyY2VJCCYsE/RpVbwLC96OI/AAAAAAAAAC4/vzUDrPfGvdY/s72-c/search-box.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"187"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-3739475577996471106"},"published":{"$t":"2007-06-27T11:00:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.949-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"enclosures"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"video upload"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"polls"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Polls and enclosures added to Blogger in draft"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RoH-OG6fecI/AAAAAAAAAEE/ki8H0Lha0N0/s1600-h/polls.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RoH-OG6fecI/AAAAAAAAAEE/ki8H0Lha0N0/s200/polls.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5080621372978198978\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eToday we’re saving two more features to Blogger in draft: \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ePolls\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eenclosure links\u003c/span\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/polls\"\u003epolls page element\u003c/a\u003e lets you add a poll to your blog’s sidebar. You choose the question and the answers, and let your readers vote. \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/polls-page-element.html\"\u003eLearn more about polls\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/enclosures\"\u003eEnclosure links\u003c/a\u003e let you turn your blog into a podcast. If you’ve uploaded your audio or video to the web, you can link to it as an enclosure so that your readers can subscribe and download it using iTunes or another podcatcher. We’ve also gone ahead and added enclosure information for all videos uploaded directly in Blogger, making video podcasting crazy easy! \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/enclosures-and-video-podcasting.html\"\u003eLearn more about enclosure links\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eStill in draft is \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/search/label/video%20upload\"\u003evideo uploading\u003c/a\u003e. We’ve got one or two more things for it before we’re ready to publish it…\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHow’s Blogger in draft treating you? The comment form is open!\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-3739475577996471106?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/3739475577996471106/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/polls-and-enclosures-added-to-blogger.html#comment-form","title":"217 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3739475577996471106"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/3739475577996471106"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/polls-and-enclosures-added-to-blogger.html","title":"Polls and enclosures added to Blogger in draft"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RoH-OG6fecI/AAAAAAAAAEE/ki8H0Lha0N0/s72-c/polls.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"217"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5585733423857160064.post-6876439096230919514"},"published":{"$t":"2007-06-13T16:00:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-12-12T19:13:10.985-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"about"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homepage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"video upload"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Introducing Blogger in draft and video upload"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003ca onblur\u003d\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RnBs5bmGOII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Lua6TGXkdMs/s1600-h/video.png\"\u003e\u003cimg style\u003d\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src\u003d\"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RnBs5bmGOII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Lua6TGXkdMs/s200/video.png\" alt\u003d\"\" id\u003d\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075676513962440834\" border\u003d\"0\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003eToday we're announcing an exciting new feature, \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003evideo upload\u003c/span\u003e, and an exciting new place to use it: \u003ca href\u003d\"http://draft.blogger.com/\"\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlogger in draft\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e. We’re excited.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can think of draft as \u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBlogger’s laboratory\u003c/span\u003e: it has features that we’re playing around with, trying out, and aren’t ready to “publish” to the main site.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOur first drafted feature is video upload. We’ve added a new button to the post editor (\u003cimg src\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.video.gif\" style\u003d\"border: 0pt none ; padding: 0pt;\" /\u003e) that pops up a dialog you can use to upload a video right into your blog post. If you have an Akita and a hat, you could make something that looks like this:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cdiv style\u003d\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cobject width\u003d\"320\" height\u003d\"280\" class\u003d\"BLOG_video_class\" id\u003d\"BLOG_video-e07c3e9ee2debc75\" classid\u003d\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase\u003d\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version\u003d6,0,40,0\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"movie\" value\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl\u003dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAEbqiT-pXmimn7VDny7-dKqas0b4Rt4xXF0_48iHTsbXbwk_tYHmR4AgEQdxWzbC-n2QSu5EXor5KqGthxbxOpmzCJveMBZFtNA9Wj841Jb0oovkFcJY7LFWzL3rSD1IgNJo3PcDlla-__VT-839wWsr9Jy1nTmNg_eoVti-wYV_fLkqLKFRiYDIfc39Aa98Ac_gk5ybjMsNxZkj_TSUYom-G4kWEAcLjgkptJoOzzl0%26sigh%3DKOh373BPXyRAaXN4BilPvVDo3C4%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0\u0026amp;nogvlm\u003d1\u0026amp;thumbnailUrl\u003dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3De07c3e9ee2debc75%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DZ4F-Rd_Yviw8476fgqh9Gx-hT4U\u0026amp;messagesUrl\u003dvideo.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\"\u003e\u003cparam name\u003d\"bgcolor\" value\u003d\"#FFFFFF\"\u003e\u003cembed width\u003d\"320\" height\u003d\"280\" src\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl\u003dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DqAAAAEbqiT-pXmimn7VDny7-dKqas0b4Rt4xXF0_48iHTsbXbwk_tYHmR4AgEQdxWzbC-n2QSu5EXor5KqGthxbxOpmzCJveMBZFtNA9Wj841Jb0oovkFcJY7LFWzL3rSD1IgNJo3PcDlla-__VT-839wWsr9Jy1nTmNg_eoVti-wYV_fLkqLKFRiYDIfc39Aa98Ac_gk5ybjMsNxZkj_TSUYom-G4kWEAcLjgkptJoOzzl0%26sigh%3DKOh373BPXyRAaXN4BilPvVDo3C4%26begin%3D0%26len%3D86400000%26docid%3D0\u0026amp;nogvlm\u003d1\u0026amp;thumbnailUrl\u003dhttp%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2FThumbnailServer2%3Fapp%3Dblogger%26contentid%3De07c3e9ee2debc75%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw320%26sigh%3DZ4F-Rd_Yviw8476fgqh9Gx-hT4U\u0026amp;messagesUrl\u003dvideo.google.com%2FFlashUiStrings.xlb%3Fframe%3Dflashstrings%26hl%3Den\" type\u003d\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"\u003e\u003c/embed\u003e\u003c/object\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe \u003ca href\u003d\"http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d5585733423857160064\u0026postID\u003d6876439096230919514\"\u003ecomments are open\u003c/a\u003e, so let us know what you think! Also read the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/video-upload-faq.html\"\u003evideo upload FAQ\u003c/a\u003e for even more information.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCurious about Blogger in draft? We wrote a \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-is-blogger-in-draft.html\"\u003eFAQ\u003c/a\u003e about that, too.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 6/20:\u003c/span\u003e Read the \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/updates-about-video-upload.html\"\u003elatest blog post\u003c/a\u003e for responses to your feedback.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eUpdate, 6/22:\u003c/span\u003e Share your videos in the comments for \u003ca href\u003d\"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/bring-out-your-vids-bring-out-your-vids.html\"\u003ethis blog post\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cdiv class\u003d\"blogger-post-footer\"\u003e\u003cimg width\u003d'1' height\u003d'1' src\u003d'https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5585733423857160064-6876439096230919514?l\u003dbloggerindraft.blogspot.com' alt\u003d'' /\u003e\u003c/div\u003e"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/feeds/6876439096230919514/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/introducing-blogger-in-draft.html#comment-form","title":"198 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6876439096230919514"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5585733423857160064/posts/default/6876439096230919514"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://bloggerindraft.blogspot.com/2007/06/introducing-blogger-in-draft.html","title":"Introducing Blogger in draft and video upload"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Pete"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/09388247167019618091"},"email":{"$t":"phopkins@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"01474561182154662323"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ePNaPx__W9w/RnBs5bmGOII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Lua6TGXkdMs/s72-c/video.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"198"}}]}});