The latest tips and news from the Blogger team
Coming up Next...
November 10, 2009
by Helen Kang, Software Engineer, Blogger
Some of you must have wondered what the Next Blog link on the NavBar does, and clicked on the link once or twice. Next Blog used to take you to a random blog, written by a random blogger. Your fellow blogger could have been writing her blog in a language that you don't know how to read. Or you might be someone who likes to read about food and restaurants in Germany, but your randomly chosen next blog could have been focused on sports, and written in Tagalog.
We've made the Next Blog link more useful, by taking you to a blog that you might like. The new and improved Next Blog link will now take you to a blog with similar content, in a language that you understand. If you are reading a Spanish blog about food, the Next Blog link will likely take you to another blog about food. In Spanish!
You might discover a cool blogger who has hobbies similar to yours, has similar taste in electronic gadgets, likes sports that you're into, or has similar curiosities and interests. We will finish rolling out the new and improved Next Blog link over the next week and hope that you will enjoy discovering blogs that are likely to interest you.
This has been a fun, collaborative effort on the Blogger team and we've enjoyed the support we received from other Google teams. We really hope you enjoy the new, more relevant Next Blog as much as we do.
Blogger in Your Own Words
November 06, 2009
Last week we asked you for a few words to describe both the Blogger of the present and the Blogger you'd like to see in the future. You responded overwhelmingly, and now as promised we'd like to share the unedited results with you:
Blogger Today
(click for large version)
Blogger in the Future
(click for large version)
Thanks to everyone who pitched in their two cents; we're very excited to take your words and start writing the next chapter of Blogger.
(And of course thanks to
Wordle
for the awesome word clouds!)
Improving Our Communication of Blogger Service Interruptions
November 04, 2009
By Eddie Kessler, Blogger Engineering Manager
After a recent service interruption, we started talking about how we could improve our communications about these (hopefully infrequent) issues. Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the
Blogger Status blog
within 3 business days to provide details about what went wrong and what we're doing to help prevent similar problems in the future.
During any outage, we try to keep the
Blogger Status blog
updated once we know about an issue. Of course sometimes — as was the case on Saturday — affected users who cannot reach Blogger cannot reach the Status blog either. In such cases, we will try to post updates on the
Blogger account on Twitter
to keep users apprised of what we know and when we expect a resolution.
We don't like it when our users experience problems like what we saw on Saturday, but we hope the combination of transparency around these issues and our commitment to learn from our mistakes will help assure you that we're doing everything we can to keep Blogger a robust and reliable service for you. As always, thank you for using Blogger.
Labels
+1
3
10th Birthday
13
2010
1
accessibility
1
ads
1
adsense
7
Amazon
1
Android
2
Blog2Print
1
Blogger
26
Blogger birthday
1
Blogger Fiesta
2
Blogger Meetup
2
Blogger Stats
2
Blogger Template Designer
1
Blogger2Print
1
blogspot
2
BlogThis
1
blogworld
2
Buzz
1
calendar
1
Chrome
2
code
1
commenting
2
community
8
conference
2
custom domain
1
developers
2
DMCA
1
draft
1
dynamic views
5
events
2
feedburner
2
feeds
1
firefox
1
follow by email
1
following
2
foxytunes
1
FTP
1
gadgets
10
GAN
3
Google Analytics
1
Google Buzz
1
Google Sites
1
google+
10
grandcentral
1
help
2
ios
1
jump
1
knol
1
lightbox
1
mobile
5
monetize
3
music
1
navbar
2
New UI
4
next blog
1
OneTrueFan
1
openid
1
OpenSky
1
Page Creator
1
pages
1
pixelodeon
1
polls
1
post summaries
1
read more
1
recommend
1
SEO
2
Share
3
support
1
SXSW
1
template designer
2
twitter
1
video
2
videoblogging
1
Viglink
1
web fonts
1
webcall
1
youtube
3
zemanta
1
Archive
2020
May
2019
Jan
2018
May
2017
Mar
2016
Nov
May
Apr
Mar
2015
Dec
Sep
Jun
May
Jan
2014
Feb
2013
Dec
Sep
Aug
Jun
Apr
2012
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2009
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2007
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2006
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2005
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feed
