A Present From Blogger

You may have noticed some changes in this blog recently. I have upgraded to the new version of Blogger and things are going smoothly.

It took about 40 minutes to transfer my account but Blogger did all of the work. I did notice a few things:

• My old profile overwrote my new one but that was easy to fix.
• All of the group blogs I belong to but don't own were transfered - even the ones I don't want. I would like to see a 'resign from blog' button implemented at some point. Currently only administrators can remove members (guests) from blogs.
• There are new cookies being used and I accidentally blocked Firefox from accepting one. Once I got into Blogger I got signed in my browser ended up in an endless loop. I re-added the cookie and things returned to normal.

I am adding labels to my old posts as time permits. Labels are one of the nicest of the new features. They are like Flickr tags or Wordpress categories and allow searches using specific words or phrases. They can also be found by search engines. Technorati detects them as tags.

I have also upgraded 2 Lazy 4 Video. You can use labels to search for specific bands/musicians.

I will be doing some more work on the blog in the next few days.

Busy Blogger

I have been a busy blogger this week. I have worked on some of my blogs and have been encouraging other bloggers.

I have been having fun at 2 Lazy 4 Video. It is a group blog but I have written all of the posts so far. I hadn't planned on posting so much so soon but I wanted to get the blog organized and I kept finding videos I liked. I have posted nine videos so far and there is a mix of old favourites and interesting new music.

I am trying to post similar music on the same day and limiting myself to two videos a day. If I manage that I will be busy for the next week at least. ^__^. Of course the other members of this blog don't have to keep up to me.

Working on this blog has been very interesting because I am finding music that I listened to when I was growing up and when I was at university. Sometimes I remember the song but the video is new. At other times I rediscover both an old favourite and a video I loved.

Big Blog Directory has also been keeping me busy. I have been getting submissions almost every day. I have been checking out the blogs and adding them to the directory. I continue to promote the blog/directory at other websites and blogs.

Yesterday I participated in a weekly blogging event and this led to a big post about me wanting to be an SOB. I know what you're thinking but you're wrong... just read the post. ^__^

I have a few other things I am working on but these two are the major ones. One thing I appreciate about blogging is that I never seem to run out of ideas.