Do you use Blogger? Find out how your blog will soon change.
Backstory:
We met Eric Case several years ago when Ryanne and I just started to videoblog.
Eric worked with Blogger which was exciting since the Videoblogging Community was predominantly hacking into the free Blogger to make it friendly for video. We told Eric all kinds of things we wanted to see (Rss 2.0 feeds WITH ENCLOSURES, tags, customizable headers, video specific templates)…..and then he was gone.
In the meantime, video online went crazy.
Youtube led the way with Flash-based social networks.
Many videobloggers turned to WordPress for all their blogging needs because it was free…and much more customizable. We each just had to learn to host our own blog and do a little PHP.
(See the Vlogsplosion template by Verdi and Rudy, specifically made for video.)
Present day:
Then last month we started making videos about people using alternative ways to fuel their cars.
We found out that Eric had a blog about his biodiesel car.
So we emailed him for a visit.
In the course of the interview about his car, we found out that Blogger had been busy making Blogger Beta. We immediately sat him down on his couch and got him to describe the changes.
We were excited because it sounded like Blogger was finally evolving.
See his interview over at RyanisHungry, the videoblog Ryan and I do together.
Eric gives a lot of good info about how Blogger is becoming much more interesting.
He’ll answer any question you leave in the comments.
I tried blogger a long time ago and watched the video. Thanx for the heads up. I have done word press and Typepad as well. I must say Typepad is the easiest maybe because I have been using it for three years. It has worked well in everything I have attemted to do. Not that I am a shill or anything. You being in the bay area I would think you would have hooked up with Mena by now. Anyway congrats to you and the future Mrs and I wish you a happy wedding!
yeah….i started on Typepad as well back when there weren’t many good options for beginners. I really got Typepad because they let me upload video directly into the post.
What I hate is that now my last 3 years are stuck in Typepad.
Most of my videos/photos are hosted on their servers.
I wish there was a service that would transfer all this info to a new free blog.
Typepad has me hooked for my whole life paying 8.95$ a month.
Great post Jay for a one year vlogger newbie. Great links like vlogsplosion too which I’ll follow up on.
Jimmy