Blogger Buzz: Introducing the Blogger Android App
Blogger Buzz: Introducing Blogger Android App
I finally got around to trying out the Blogger Android App, It became available in the Android Market recently. After trying a few test posts on a test blog that I have, I have to say it’s a useful tool for those on the run.
The things I like:
- Being able to switch easily between accounts and blogs. I only have two Google accounts and the both share the same blogs, but someone with a setup that’s more complex would find this easy to use.
- Nice large buttons for publishing, savings as a draft or deleting
- It’s nicely integrated with the camera in the phone, so you can take a picture and immediately post it to your blog.
- It’s also nicely integrated with the my Android phone’s built in browser. Anytime you’re browsing and something on a page catches your eye, just go to the menu and find the share option and and you are ready to type up that post that you know that everyone wants to read.
- It’s very easy to view all of your posts, whether they are published or still in draft form.
- Last but but not least, the app is smooth and responsive. That makes it a real pleasure to use.
Once again – you can get it at the Android Market. Try it! I think you will like it.
Why I stopped using Blogger
I first joined Blogger back in 2004. I didn’t start blogging in earnest until last year. The nice thing about Blogger is that it’s free. Unfortunately, the bad thing about Blogger is that it’s free.
That may seem to be a contradiction, but it’s true. Blogger is free and there are a lot of great tools that they give you. This also attracts a lot of people who attempt to use Blogger as a spamming tool. Blogger is a huge operation and they use automated tools to try and stop the spammers.
While using Blogger, I was a frequent reader of their help forums. I learned a lot just by reading the questions and answers that were being given. It was there that I found out that I was not alone with not being able to search my blog posts. This problem has gone unsolved by Google since last July. This was my first reason for not using Blogger any more.
Over time, I saw an increase in people complaining about there blogs being deleted as spam blogs. I started looking at the cached version of their blogs on Google search.
I found that in a lot of cases, the blogs being deleted did not appear to be spam blogs. Of course, a lot of them appeared to be just that, spam blogs.