Comments on: Eric Case on Blogger Beta

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:17:02 +0000

I’m in dire need of your help…i made 3 blogs and i cannot retrieve them…i didn’t jot down neither email addresses nor the login/pw info…(i know i should have now!)…i would sign into the blogger-beta…now that’s no longer available and its been awhile since i’ve last logged in…i forgot everything…please help!

By: patrick hbm

patrick hbm — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:49:59 +0000

great spokesperson you have there in ERIC CASE.

your written instructions are far better than most web-writing out there…but add eric’c clear speaking style and you have a winner!
i’d vote for him.
p.

this is my first blog but i already have plans for more; thanks for the helpful start).

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:48:00 +0000

Posting videos;

Two questions. Is there a code or area for blogger beta, to post videos and what file types are allowed?
I thought there were tutorials for this but have not been able to find them nor any info for video on blogger beta on a google search.

2. The template tutorials tell you to press a tab that is not there for editing.
I am very familiar with web building but not blogging Can anyone help?
thank you

By: Definiscimi Vedana at Googlando Z

Definiscimi Vedana at Googlando Z — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:42:58 +0000

[…] Prima di quello, Eric Case (che ha e-casa su vedana.net) parla così di Blogger Beta. E, giocando con i fotogrammi del video, qualcosa di “vedana” glielo si legge negli occhi… ma solo a volte […]

By: Leesa

Leesa — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:55:11 +0000

Thanks for the video. I have not switched to beta blogger yet. I am just worried that all of my posts will disappear. That happened to some of the early adopters. But you did not really touch on that issue. I assume it has been resolved but it would have been nice to hear.

By: littlepurplecow

littlepurplecow — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:52:54 +0000

Great interview. Hearing from the people behind the tools really strengthens my persective of the organization. And I’m digging the red background and screenshot effects.

By: Ginn

Ginn — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:46:53 +0000

My family has a blogger site and we love it. Due to the satisfaction site I had on my families site I thought it would be great to create another site for my soccer teams. i caoch college soccer and have taken videos of random stuff during the season including interviews and highlight videos. I am discouraged though because as I get more in to this I find that I can’t make a video longer than 5-7 minutes on any of the video blog sites such as youtube. I am wondering if there is a possibiliey of going beyond 20 minutes of video anywhere on the net. I saw what was titled ” the longest video in you tube history.” But am stumped as to have such a lengthy video…hopefully with a little better quality. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you!

By: Abeci

Abeci — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:46:10 +0000

If i have multiple team members and I change to the new version, will it be apparent to the users how to update to get a gmail account (not sure they have gmail accounts)?

P.S. I stopped by Google on my road trip about a week ago to thank you guys for making such an awesome product, security told me no visits. lol. Thanks anyway!

By: houstonmacbro

houstonmacbro — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:18:30 +0000

so, is ‘beta’ ready for primetime and should i go ahead and switch? or is this something that is going to happen automatically in the next month or so.

By: matty

matty — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:43:09 +0000

how do i put stuff on my blog??

By: teguh

teguh — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:48:06 +0000

thanks

By: romeotanghalsr

romeotanghalsr — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:36:01 +0000

HI, i moved to new version and recieved a confirmation e-mail. I used my google account but I can’t add new images to my old post. Everytime I tried to add images from Photobucket, Only the letters shows up. What seems to be the problem?

By: Donnie Jeter

Donnie Jeter — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:12:57 +0000

Does anyone else think he looks like Jason Kottke?

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:38:21 +0000

Damn, that Eric Case is HOT!

By: 7 Bates

7 Bates — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:22:42 +0000

Hi Eric, thanks for making that video. It answered a lot of questions. I’m curious why the migrate feature tells me my blog cannot be moved though. Is it just not time yet?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:57:24 +0000

Hello,
I suggest a function on the Blog, I call “Revert IT”. Let’s say my trip finished, and the blog won’t receive more stories. But I want to keep it for the future.

The revert function would invert all the posts, so the first post would go first, and so on, so for a reader that wants to follow the whole blog, it’s easier than going from bottom to the top.

Tks !

By: Philip Tiangson

Philip Tiangson — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:11:54 +0000

i like the beta… so smooth and much easier to use. thanks to blogger team. more power!!!

By: Marty m

Marty m — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:27:46 +0000

A Little History:
I initially used blogger to document a 3-day 250 mile bike ride “on the fly”. I have my own website (currently undergoing renovation) and I set up a subsite for the bike ride [http://www.martinator.com/bikenj]. My host provider supplied a Blog application (Coronto) that sufficed for the time up to the ride, but I wanted to see if I could post photos and comments on the fly. The blog app didn’t do that.

Fortunately, I worked something out where I could email photos up to flickr, have them auto posted to Blogger, which would then FTP the blog to my host where I included it on my bike Page. I had reasons for uploading to Flickr and not straight to blogger.

So anyway, that worked out really well.

Recently, I got the blog itch again. So I decided to just use blogger and not deal with my hosts blog app.

Being a web designer/developer (stress the latter) I wanted to customize my Minima template. I customized the crap out of it, adding styles, custom bullets, and date dependant messaging/images/backgrounds/styles.

Cool.

But when I switched over to Beta, all that went away. Good thing Blogger had the foresite to let me revert. I reverted back. But I still wanted to use some of the new features (widgets) on beta. so I created a blog (test new template [http://martin8rtemplatetest.blogspot.com/]) and I did all my customization and experimentation there.

Then when I was satisfied with that, I migrated my main blog [martin8r.blogspot.com] all I had to do was incorporate the modifications from my test bed. a bit of manual labor, but worth while.

So in short: I recommend creating a new blog in beta and test it out before migrating all you other blogs over to it.

By: Paul Martin

Paul Martin — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:44:16 +0000

I am disappointed with Blogger Beta although I appreciate that I may be the problem.

My reason is that I recently joined ‘The Methoblog.’ Unfortunately not only does my place in Blogroll seem to have a different page rather than front page

BUT

My new posts do not get individually posted to the up to date new posts of the bloggers but I seem to dominate the whole thing with loads of mine appearing - only they tend to one (it varies which) of the older ones.

Not surprisingly this drives the others mad and yesterday I had to be withdrawn from this site. I am back but the problem is there again. So I am in a situation where this needs to be resolved or the only way I can remain is to move to Typepad or some other domain.

The people producing “The Methoblog” reckon that this problem only really exists with Blogger Beta users!

So tell me, do I stay or do I go as ‘The Clash’ would put it?

By: Tanya Wilder

Tanya Wilder — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:10:02 +0000

How ’bout a story about Eric Case’s former Spanish teacher in Marietta, OH and her reaction when she signed in to update her blog and saw “Enrique” Case’s sweet and smiling face right there on the screen in front of her?

Way to go, Eric!!!!!!!!!!

Sra. W.

By: » Eric Case Speaks About Blogger » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:59:41 +0000

[…] Ryan Is Hungry has an video interview with Eric Case from Developer Relations and Blogger at Google, with him talking about the growing pains lately of moving Blogger over to the new architecture. He says their status blog has been a “tale of woe” of late, as they move Blogger from its old architecture to Google-standard architecture, a difficult transition process, but one that will be worth it in the end. It’s only nine minutes, so watch it and enjoy. (via Biz) […]

By: sander

sander — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:56:20 +0000

I moved to the beta version some time ago and I think it’s so much better than the old blogger.

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By: mike

mike — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:42:05 +0000

Thanks Eric - I’ll check it out. I’ll have to wait to switch though… I have too many sites

By: Kevin the Collie

Kevin the Collie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:34:38 +0000

Thanks for visiting my blog, and for pointing us here. we got really fed up when beta was doing crazy things last weekend. We also find the template is less flexible than the old one. Labels are useful but haven’t worked out how to reduce the font size - or prevent them displaying.

Thanks
Kevin the Collie

not bad for a dog, eh?