Blog Flak

Blogger Buzz has announced the official end of the new version of Blogger’s Beta phase. Some people still can’t switch over yet though, including me. I’ll be glad when I can! Yes, I still use Blogger for my personal blog, mostly because of nostalgia. Even though I run several Wordpress sites and blogs and love that platform, I just can’t seem to tear away from Blogger for my personal stuff.

The new version of Blogger is metaphorically bursting with features, from the big guns like drag-and-drop template editing and post labels (which are perfect, by the way, for indexing the 131 historical figures you may have written about), to little polishes like a better-designed Dashboard or that you no longer need to solve a word verification CAPTCHA to post a comment on your own blog.

I’m particularly fond of the high-speed dynamic publishing on the new version, and soon I’m going to build new template designs that fully support the sidebar widgets. Until then though I wish they would come up with a better Captcha system with easier to read characters. Some of those are so squiggly it’s difficult for a human to read them much less a machine!