Blogger Minutiae/Ubiquity of Spam

For those of us working with Google’s rather techy-impaired Blogger blogging service, there’s hope that improvements lay ahead. The first auspicious sign arrived yesterday when they released a program that lets you publish posts directly from Microsoft Word (access this on you Dashboard page). After downloading, you’ll see a quaint little “Publish” button in the Word toolbar tray that practically begs you to stop writing memos and start post, post, posting. You can use bullets, bold, italic, etc. All the formatting functions seem to transfer fluidly. Hyperlinks in Word publish, although, when you browse recently visited URL’s, word doesn’t seem to pick up Firefox searches, only Internet Explorer…anybody know how to link Firefox with word?

Hopefully more innovations will follow. To aid in the process, sign-in to your account and fill out the user survey. If you can’t think of anything else, recommend they let us work with the HTML in the comments page and program threaded replies. This isn’t necessarily the most pressing concern for many of us Blogger kids willing to endure the ignominy of relying on Spammers to fill our comments pages instead of Friends Networks, it would still be a neat capability. Tagging would be another nice option. Oh, and if we could work more with video….and, ummmm, if Blogger could do our tax returns and remember birthdays and make my lunch and iron shirts. That’d be nice, too.