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Place an image in Blogger and, lately, it is not always clear what will happen.
There have been a lot of issues recently in the help community about images. That's often a sign that the Blogger developers are tinkering.
This week we are seeing evidence of a change in the wiring.
Hello, young bloggers, go back up your blogs.
Like smoking, drinking, and electing leaders who are warming the planet to the boiling point, blogging is about to become an adults-only activity.
That is to say,
After September 1, students designated as under 18 in K-12 Edu domains will lose access to the Blogger service.
USE THE POST EDITOR FOR FORMATTING
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Inexplicably, Google has rolled out new widget dialogs lacking basic functionality.
These dialogs are the versions you get when you create or edit a widget from the Layout page of the Blogger dashboard.
The removal is rolling out as I publish this report.
The only remaining option to edit these widgets uses the dumbed-down versions that are available from the Layout page of the Blogger dashboard.
The move suggests that the days of some other Blogger features that remain may be numbered.
Some bloggers (and I am one of them) are not too happy with the snippitization of their posts by the most recent crop of themes from Blogger.
Older themes (like this one) render the entire post on the home page or end at your jump break.
But the new responsive themes suck up the first few sentences, strip them of all formatting, hyperlinks, and paragraph breaks, and add a "read more" link that goes to the post's post page, automatically.
Those busy beavers at Blogger never rest! And, one is tempted to add, unfortunately.
This week's change involves the batch controls, with special implications for managing labels.
If you blog regularly enough that your tools become an extension of your mind, you may experience flow
the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. (Wikipedia)
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who invented the term, says flow is characterized by a sense of timeless absorption.
So, what happens when the tools break?
