blogger

Yours Truly has gone hogwild with the labels feature ever since I first started using it about two years ago: Blogger has told me that there’s a 2000 labels limit and I’m all out.

C’mon Google, we expect better from you! Fix this, please 🙂

EDIT 09:32 p.m. EST: Taking a looksee around the blogosphere, many users of Blogger are reporting problems with labels. I’m hearing that Google/Blogger implemented some “improvements” and that a restriction on labels is supposed to be one of them. Uhhhh…

If Google is in the business of locating data quickly, then limiting labels for its own blogging service seems an awfully big step in the wrong direction....

April 27, 2008

Blogger: Google Inc.’s neglected stepchild

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For the past few weeks I’ve been working on an overhaul for this blog. I’m feeling like the time is right for a drastic new look: something that’ll pop into a reader’s retinas and stay burned in his gray matter. Longtime readers will remember a time when this was a pitch-black site with strange-colored fonts, back when I didn’t really know what the heck I was doing with a blog. I gave it the white “newspapery” look a year ago but other than those minor cosmetics, it’s basically been the same design for the past four years.

So I’ve been studying blog designs and what I’d like to do with my own, and I’m seeing what others do with theirs. Like Kevin Bussey’s blog, for example. His is about as well-designed and downright slick a personal blog as I’ve ever seen. And I’d love to be able to do ...