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Last week we asked you for a few words to describe both the Blogger of the present and the Blogger you’d like to see in the future. You responded overwhelmingly, and now as promised we’d like to share the unedited results with you: Blogger Today (click for large version) Blogger in the Future (click for…

By Eddie Kessler, Blogger Engineering Manager After a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the Blogger Status blog within 3 business days to provide details about…

by Talin, Software Engineer, Blogger As a blog author, you’ve probably spent more than a little time getting exactly the right “look” for your blog. A blog is an outlet for creative expression, and how your blog looks says as much about you as what is written on it. And we at Blogger are committed…

As we close the chapter on the first ten years over here on Blogger, the team couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead over the next ten. And while we’ve got some great things planned already, we know that the ideas and passion of the Blogger community will inspire us further. So…

Guest post by Robin Beck, Blog Action Day This is Robin Beck here from Blog Action Day central, and I want to thank Rick and the Blogger team for helping support Blog Action Day 2009. For those of you who don’t know, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15th where bloggers…

While October is to many a month of candy and costumes, it also happens to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month in the U.S. In that spirit, we thought we’d take a minute to look at a few different things you can do to make sure both your content and account are secure on Blogger.…

Last week, Google Sidewiki launched to the world as an entirely new way to share information across the web. This new Google Toolbar feature allows you to contribute your own insight to any webpage, as well as read information shared by others right in your browser’s sidebar. Google Sidewiki uses a special relevancy algorithm to display…

Have opinions about Blogger? If so, we’d like to meet you. We are looking for participants willing to document their blogging practices over a few weeks and answer some interview questions. This will help us better understand your needs and keep improving Blogger. Interested? Sign up here. Thanks!

by Lu Chen, Blogger Summer Intern (Philadelphia, PA) Last October we launched a comments feature that let you embed comments and the commenting form below your blog posts. Today we have extended embedded comments to display profile images next to the comments that your visitors write. Though profile images have been available with the other…

Guest Post by Caroline Vanderlip, SharedBook CEO To continue Blogger’s 10th anniversary celebration, I’m delighted to announce that Blog2Print has now partnered with Blogger. Blog2Print lets you publish some or all of your posts and photos as a professionally-printed, full-color book. Since 2007, thousands of Blogger users have become Blog2Print fans, using our easy and…