Monday, March 20, 2023

Old wiring

A tangled collection of old, dirty wires and switches
photo: yung chang

Increasingly over the past two years, bloggers in the help community say they can't

  • sign in from their blog—from the public "front end" of the blog at blogspot.com, connecting to the back end at blogger.com
  • leave comments on blogs—even their own!—from their Google accounts
  • find the quick-edit tools
  • managing comments on their blogs, or delete comments they made on other blogs

These problems (often) have the same cause: Blogger's outdated dependence on tracking cookies.

Monday, March 13, 2023

Modern image manager debuts

19th century illustration of a gentleman using an electronic apparatus to view an image of a woman.

Google stashes the images you upload into your blog in the Album Archive, their online home that is separate from Google Photos.

Now, Google has written a new back end for those images, available today at www.blogger.com/mediamanager.

Saturday, March 11, 2023

New blog—and account

A hand-lettered sign reading, "Welcome, please come in!"
photo: aaron burden

Are you new in town? Welcome!

In this guide for newcomers, the  symbol indicates my personal recommendations for success.