Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A few months ago, we announced a new web authoring tool called Knol. Well, today we’ve announced its public launch, and we wanted to tell you a little bit more about it and how you might use it to complement your blog. Blogs are great for quickly and easily getting your latest writing out to…

Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger: Blogger is now available in Malay! Blogger has a large base of users in Malaysia and we are excited to now bring them Blogger in their native language. Comment moderation can now be automatically enabled after a fixed number of days. Spam…

Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets. Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the…

Today’s release brings a handful of tweaks and fixes, as well as the new Blog List page element. Here’s some of what we fixed: If you delete a post or make a typo in a post URL, the resulting 404 page now says “page not found” instead of the incorrect “blog not found.” tags no…

Here’s a quick summary of recent fixes and changes we’ve made to Blogger: Layouts now has a blog.pageName datum that gives the name of the current page without the “[Blog Name]: ” prefix that blog.pageTitle adds. Picture page element can now optionally link the picture to a URL. Warnings and better handling of interrupted video…

Google Docs has just updated their embedded presentation feature to support multiple sizes, so now presentations can look even better in blog posts. To add a presentation to your blog, create it in Google Docs and copy the “Mini Presentation Module” HTML into a blog post. (See: Embedding Presentations in a Web Site) For an…

Scheduled post publishing, which we talked about testing on Blogger in draft last month, is now live for everyone. If you set a post’s date into the future, Blogger will wait to publish until that time comes. Have you ever wanted to announce something on a certain date but knew you wouldn’t be at a…

We haven’t made one of these posts for a while, so here’s a quick summary of some of the changes and fixes we’ve made today and in the past few weeks. Today’s Fixes The “Add another image” link in the image upload box now works even if you haven’t filled in a URL. The labels…

We’re bidding farewell today to Eric Case. Eric joined Google five years ago so that he could do something — anything — for Blogger. Since then, he’s answered support tickets, launched blogs, designed features, hung out with MC Hammer, eaten very slowly without drinking, and, for the past year, been our product manager, with all…

Have you tried out Blogger in draft, Blogger’s experimental features site, recently? Blogger in draft is a version of Blogger with features we’re trying out before we “publish” them to everybody on the main site. (See our original announcement: “Blogger… in draft.”) If you’re feeling adventurous, all you need to do to try it out…