Blogger :: a work in progress, beta or not

I joined Technorati and I learned it is supposedly a great thing to have proper label (Blogger's or Google's terminology) or tags (Technorati's term). A few nights back. I started to retrofit my then fifty some posts with labels. I selected a post to edit, added a label or two, then published it again. Back to the main 'edit posts' screen, all the posts looked the same, with or without labels. I said to myself, wouldn't it be great the labels be showed next to the associated post?!

Today I resumed my label-retrofitting task. Lo & behold, the 'edit posts' page has all current labels displayed, just like Gmail does for each messages. Wow, progress!

Editing posts, I noticed the oldest few have hard breaks (
) which broke the lines. The new posts don't have this problem, even if all of them were posted from Gmail.

Google's add-comment Firefox extension fails to log me in to Blogger beta

I downloaded Google's add-comment FireFox extension. I thought it is neat to comment on a interesting web page and have the link preserved at the same time in a relevant blog post (This works more like a scrapbook, only for the web). However, first try at www.citrix.com the extension failed to log me in. I tried both my Google account and my blogger account.

As described by previous posts, I converted to Blogger beta last week. Maybe this is one of the glitches for the SSO (single sign-on) the new Blogger beta is using. Strange thing is course, none of those valid accounts work.

face lift :: switched to Blogger beta (continued)

Other nice features (some are more like bug fixes) are

• perma link if you click on the title of any post
  
• secondary bullets work now. Before Blogger beta, secondary bullets were automatically promoted, even though the HTML code ( UL embedded inside UL) and WYSIWYG editors on Blogger's 'Post Edit' or Gmail's composer shows proper layout of double indented secondary bullets.
  
• the mysterious slice of the text ad link on top of my blog disappeared.
  
• The editor used to 'edit posts' has two tabs. One is 'Edit Html'. The other is 'Compose'. Those two should really be 'simple WYSIWYG editing' versus 'advanced HTML coding'. I'll leave it to the legend of creative workers at Google/Blogger to cook up proper pair of names.
• The use cases for the multi-blog feature are not as thought-through as other features. The profiles(about-me) share the same profile. As a test, I created a private blog. Email post to that blog doesn't work yet. Two emails were returned with permanent error by alpha1.blogger.com or something to that effect. Since the blogger id is the same, I wondered which blog of the two I own under the Google account should the email post be directed to. Since I had only one blog before Blogger beta, so I wouldn't know whether this is an old bug/feature or not.