Bunny Goes BlogSpot

Another Error!

2007-03-11T17:52:00.000+01:00

I know I'm the official web 2.0 stress-tester, but c'mon. Second (third, actually) blogger error in 10 minutes.

Good thing I thought to hit apple-R to resend the form, or I would have lost my previous post (yes, I checked in another tab to make sure it hadn't posted and the error was about something else).

Sub-Optimal Comment Management

2007-03-11T17:46:00.000+01:00

Thanks to Romain for the title...

I have a bunch of comment spam on this blog. To clean it up, I must go and delete each comment individually, it seems, and wait a longish moment for the confirmation window to appear, give confirmation, wait for the confirmation window to load and then click back on the link to the blog post. And deal with the next comment.

And to make things worse, comment moderation is either "on" or "off" -- no smart middle-ground.

Forget it. This, at least, is something that WordPress.com deals with much better.

Template Editor

2007-03-11T17:30:00.000+01:00

I like the template editor. It's pretty cool. However, it bugs me a lot that the "Edit Layout" page doesn't refresh when I add new elements. I added link list, and as I couldn't see it on my template editor page I thought it had failed. So I added it again. It still didn't appear. I refreshed, and there it was twice!

New Blogger?

2007-03-11T17:07:00.000+01:00

Just trying to see what the new Blogger looks like.

Labels? Why can't they call them "categories" or "tags"? Oooh... GMail labels. I get it.

Ouch! coComment thinks my post is a comment

2006-07-23T12:42:00.000+01:00

Well, thanks to Andrew for drawing my attention to this. When you write a new post in blogger, coComment (a cool service I work for) thinks the post title is part of a comment form.

I'll report it straight away, and hopefully it will soon be fixed!

Comparison Between Hosted Blog Platforms

2004-12-17T20:49:00.000+01:00

I tested 13 hosted blog platforms in total, and the write-up is now online.

Pictures

2004-12-09T18:58:00.000+01:00

Well, at least it's clear enough. No picture upload, use Flickr ;-)

Success!

2004-12-08T17:02:00.000+01:00

Successfully added links to the sidebar as well as technorati code. Blogger seems a tad slow right now -- or is it me?

No Ping by Default!

2004-12-08T10:48:00.000+01:00

I've just enabled the ping to weblogs.com -- it was disabled by default. We'll get into the photo uploading and inserting tests later.

Link management

2004-12-08T10:45:00.000+01:00

Right, I'm getting picky here, but I'd say a blogging platform nowadays really needs a links/blogroll management system.

The best I've seen so far is at ViaBloga. You just enter the URL of the link you want to add, and it fetches the link title, a sreenshot, the RSS feed... Just perfect for people who need to add lots of links to their sidebars.

The blog-testing binge continues

2004-12-08T10:18:00.000+01:00

Kevin suggested I go forth with the blog-testing enterprise, so here I am.

I already appreciate being able to switch from the graphical editor to the HTML source -- that was a specially nice thing when my first link (on Kevin's name) decided it was going to be a neverending link spanning all my post.

I've used blogger before, but not BlogSpot. So here we go. Expect some nasty feedback, as always.

(Oh first, gripes, long-known: no categories, no trackbacks -- I mean, hey! this is 2004!)