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Never delete a Google account

Yellow post-it note with "never" written on it.
Well, hardly ever.

So, you are done with Google!—or at least with your account, and are ready to erase it from your digital life.

Not so fast.

Also too clever

The name of this blog is a nod to a project that, for a few months in 2010, was arguably the state of the art method for showing your blog in chronological order, oldest first.

The Rube Goldberg cartoon, "Self-Operating Napkin," illustrating an absurd contraption.

The incredible shrinking feeds

A set of matryoshka dolls

The list of my posts related to blog feeds, below, is generated automatically. It updates itself whenever I add another blog post to the "feeds" category.


Q: How did I do that?
A: I used a feed.

But there has been a change.

Adding images to Blogger

Blogger editor > toolbar > Insert Image > options

Maybe a picture is worth a thousand words. A photo or graphic can attract the eye, set the tone, explain, demonstrate, or illustrate.

Every blogger should know all the ways to add an image to a blog post or page.

Four choices when you click the Insert Image tool

Here's a guide.

Dragging images into your blog

Update: Until further notice, I recommend that you should not drag images into your blog posts.
You can drag photos into your blog, from your desktop or the web.

An image is dragged into a blog post from a folder on my computer.
Drag, drop, wait, format, and done!

This feature is not new, but for a long time (some say a very long time) it was buggy and produced blog posts that screwed up the way blogs and feeds worked.

Add an image "by URL"

toolbar > Insert image > By URL

A URL (Universal Resource Locator) is the unique address of a file on the Word Wide Web.

If you know the URL of an image file, and if that file is public, you can post it directly into your blog at Insert image > By URL.

The menu of Insert Image chloces, with 'by URL' selected
Use "by URL" to insert an image that is on the web.

Add images "from your webcam"

toolbar > insert image > Add Images > From your webcam

Update: This option has been discontinued. My guess is no one will miss it.

Not everyone has a webcam, but if you do you can insert a photo from it into your blog (and your blog's album in the Archive).

The top of the "From your webcam" option
It's one of six options in "Add images," the pop-up you get when you click the Insert Image icon on the toobar in Blogger's editing window.