phil ringnalda

In case you missed the code for the Blogger Pro buttons on the “thanks for upgrading” page, here they are: <a href=”http://pro.blogger.com”><img src=”http://buttons.blogger.com/powered_by_blogger_pro2.gif” width=”88″ height=”31″ border=”0″ alt=”Powered by Blogger Pro&#153;”></a> gets you and <a href=”http://pro.blogger.com”><img src=”http://buttons.blogger.com/powered_by_blogger_pro.gif” width=”88″ height=”31″ border=”0″ alt=”Powered by Blogger Pro&#153;”></a> gets you Note: I added in the border=”0″ cause I’m sure Ev. […]

Posting to the future and the past: type a post, then click the Options… button, check Set post date/time, and enter a date and time in the future, then post or post & publish. The post will go to your Future tab, and wait until the next time you publish after that date and time, […]

Once I get the hang of Drafts, I think it will be quite useful, though I fear that it will be a lot like todo lists are for me: out of sight, out of mind. Drafts in a nutshell: it has always been possible to use “Post” as a sort of draft, to save a […]

Ah. At last we have post titles in Blogger. Here are the fun things you can do with them: [this space intentionally left blank]. To use the new title field, go to the Settings page, Formatting tab (gotta find an easier way to say that), and change “Show Title Field” to “Yes” and save changes. […]

I can’t remember if the old free version of the spellchecker let you add words or not, but the new version does: when you spellcheck a post with unusual words like “blog” in it, click “Add” to teach spellchecker.net that you didn’t mean “bog” or “log” or even “oblong”. (Note to spellchecking purveyors: it would […]

First things first: go to the Settings page for each of your blogs, and at the bottom of the Publishing tab, change “Ping weblogs.com” to “Yes”. Congratulations: you just became more popular. <edit>Note that you will be pinging with your Settings for Blog Title and Blog URL, so if you use Blog Title to affect […]

What are the last six words any Blogger supporter wants to hear about Blogger Pro? The archive issues remain the same.

Dragging another crumb about Blogger Pro features back to my lair. Biz Stone, Genius : Among the features I’m looking forward to: email posting and email publishing. I have to say I’m underwhelmed by email publishing so far (mostly the fault of Yahoo Groups, though), but email posting is another matter. And Biz? Permalinks don’t […]

Robert Scoble’s notes on the Blogger Pro demo, as posted on Dave Winer’s Radio weblog

If you are interested in Blogger, and happen to be passing by the Dana Street Coffee House in Mountain View on the evening of January 22nd, you might want to stop in and see what’s new.