Until recently, if you wanted to start a blog you had to know something about html. This eliminated the huge majority of writers who don't know, and don't want to know, any of that crap.
These people, who never enrolled in a community college class on the matter, who never even googled html to find out what it's about, who never took up any of the many offers to start their own blog for free, are the very same people who satisfy their urge to type by attaching interminable commentaries to the ass-end of our posts.
Blogger, which is now owned by Google, is changing that picture rapidly. I have five blogs, all managed from one location: BloggerBot. Posting, editing and updating is quick, and now they have a preview that's getting closer to wysiwyg. Which means I can usually post once, without having to fix some stupid thing and do it all over.
Blogger partners with several companies like Sitemeter and Haloscan (commenting service), and is now announcing a new partnership with Hello! from Picasa that makes posting pictures direct from your files to your blog super easy. And as far as I can tell, there seems to be no limit to the number of pictures you can post.
What's cool about Hello is how it uses old IM technology in a brand new way. Instant Messaging, that annoying device built to destroy concentration and rechannel your energies toward the maintenance of banal online relationships, is at the very core of the Hello! concept.
All you're doing is sharing a picture with your blog. Or somebody else's. It is a process that can only be described by the word bimida-bamada-boom.
BloggerBot also makes sharing a blog extremely easy. For example, Shark and I recently launched The Post-Depressionist Almanac. Gotta tell you: blogging is definitely funner with two.
Article comments
1 - TDavid
It's easy to drag and drop pictures with Hello and it will resize and automatically post to one's blog. Doesn't get much easier than this.