Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The fact that there are tens of thousands of results for “blogger’s block” suggests that more than a few of you have struggled to think of what to say on your blog at one time or another. If that sounds like you, you might want to take a look at Plinky. Plinky is the brainchild…

A few months ago, we introduced a feature called Following, which lets readers publicly subscribe to your blog. Since then it’s been incredibly successful: nearly three million communities in 39 languages have followers, and every second of every day, a reader follows a blog. But your readers come from across the web, from Yahoo, AOL,…

Over the years we’ve heard lots of great ideas for promoting your blog, and have been compiling them here as a handy reference. From simply adding links to enabling cool newer features such as Following, we’re always happy to update the page when we stumble across something new. Our latest addition comes from our friends…

With several Twitter fans on the Blogger team (not to mention a number of Blogger alumni work at Twitter), it seemed only natural that we set up shop on Twitter ourselves. We will be posting status updates, major feature announcements, and pointers to cool uses of Blogger will all show up in our Twitter account.…

Today’s release features a brand new graduate from the Blogger in Draft testing ground: Import and Export for Blogger blogs. The import/export feature opens up a whole new range of portability for your blogs, as well as allows for a few new options in the blog creation process. To get you started, we’ve rounded up…

Sometimes we stumble across gadgets that are just too cool to keep to ourselves. And such is the case with the slick iLike gadget, which should be a real treat for all of you Blogger audiophiles out there. iLike brings music to your blog by letting you embed and share playlists that you make yourself.…

One of our goals at Blogger is to make it easy for authors to get feedback on their content; we believe that authors are driven in part by the reactions and criticisms offered by their readers, and that these interactions enhance the quality of blog content. In support of this effort, we’re launching Reactions, simple…

Here at Blogger we’re always working to make the site and your blogs faster and more reliable. We want you to think of us as a big truck: able to handle anything you can dump on us. Tuesday’s election was a good chance to see just how big a truck Blogger actually is, and we’re…

As some of you might know, AOL has recently decided to sunset its AOL Journals service. To help Journals users continue to share their thoughts online, Blogger has built a simple migration tool to move an AOL Journal to Blogger. We’d like to welcome our new Blogger users to the community and are looking forward…

Today we’re bringing the embedded comment form out of Blogger in draft and making it easily available to everyone. This feature puts the comment form at the bottom of each post page, below the comments, instead of on the separate, Blogger-styled page. The embedded comment form is more convenient for your readers because they can…