Blogger, Google+ pages, and the frontiers of science

The R&D Division here at Too Clever, ever pushing the envelope, has used a Google+ page of a regular Blogger blog to create a second blog.

To be precise:

• a Google+ page identity (not a personal profile)
• that was created for a regular Blogger blog
• in turn created, and now administers, a second blog.

Here is the proof that, when it comes to Blogger, a Google+ page can do everything your blogging account can. Including being anonymous.

The blog, called "Proof of Concept," has no purpose other than to illustrate how a G+ page can do any and every blog-related thing that a plain-vanilla blogging account can do.

Specifically, a properly constituted Google+ page can

• be anonymous or in the name of your blog or business or brand
• be a blog author and write posts
• be a blog administrator and moderate comments and change blog design and settings
• share blog posts on Google+
• leave Google+ comments on a blog that enables them
• leave regular (i.e., not G+) comments on a blog that enables them

and now

• create and administer blogs

all using the page identity, not a personal profile.

Proof of Concept could have its own G+ page, which could create another blog, which—but let's not get carried away.

It's science I tell you! And they call me mad. (Nevit Dilmen image)

Is there anything this Google+ Page can't do? There are some differences in how it behaves in Google+ compared to a Google+ profile.

For instance, a page can have multiple administrators and is not subject to Google's real-names policy.

And you do need at least one Google+ profile to administer the page.

But in terms of Blogger, it does everything a regular account can.

Everything.

Microscope image courtesy Scalefree Network via a Creative Commons license; the image has been flopped and is available under the same license.