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Blogger Knowledge: Great Blogger Relaunch.  Well, I was taken by surprise. I used Blog This! my usual way of starting a blog entry, and noticed that I couldn't post any longer.  I can save as draft or I can publish.  (Since I made a draft last week, and then couldn't find it, this is a little worrisome.)  Then the edit posts page that came up was nothing I had ever seen before.  So, blogger works differently now, and I didn't know there was a change.  I need to go find out what has been accomplished, and whether comments can work when I post my blog to a separate site using the ftp feature.  That would be nice.

[later: I finally worked may way into Blogger to see how to do things.  The new preferences reported that my template could not be updated for comments.  I braved some trial-and-error work and seem to have comments enabled on my page, which is pretty cool.  Of course, I would prefer to have comments enabled selectively by post.  More than that, I really miss the previous Blog editor layout.  I don't like the current one at all.  I know it is partly the disruption of making a change and having my tacit knowledge interrupted.  I will become accustomed to this, but I don't have the sense of context that I had in the multipanel approach that was used before.  This is something for me to see how to deal with as I practice a little more. Ahah, what I wanted to control was under the "More Post Options..." OK, more to do. All right, there is still something off about the loss of context, for not that much gain in real estate and expressability.  And I have to publish one at a time to stay sane.  I feel harried by the new model too.]
posted by Dennis at 5/9/2004 10:23:16 PM