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Move From Blogger To WordPress Without Losing Google Rank

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Your experiment in blogging has really taken off, so you’re itching to move from Blogger to a self-hosted WordPress installation. Luckily, you can do so without losing the traffic you worked so hard to build. More »
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Blogger Adds Support For Jump Breaks

7:00AM Dustin Luck | Google’s weblog publishing platform Blogger announced a new feature bringing built-in support for jump breaks (the “read more” links on most blogs’ front pages). Jump breaks make for a visually cleaner front page by hiding the bulk of each post in the main view. More »
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Blogger Gets Several Major Updates

4:30AM Adam Pash | Google’s weblog publishing platform Blogger received several significant updates to Blogger in Draft yesterday. The new features, which you can see in more detail here, include inline commenting, import and export, and a new and improved post editor. More »

Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your thoughts down. Being somewhat experienced at this blogging thing, your Lifehacker editors have pinpointed a few tools and tricks that make our posts go faster and smoother. After the jump, we round up 10 of them. More »

Use Google Docs to Publish Blog Entries

2:06AM Kevin Purdy | The bavatuesdays blog points out a publish-to-blog feature that seems to have quietly crept into Google Documents. Not much to crow about if you’re perfectly happy with your blogging platform’s built-in editor, but Google Docs can seemingly publish to most any blog, even those on hosted servers. Combined with linked tools like Google Notebook, it could make for a nicer thought-compiling and drafting experience for anyone who’s an avid online writer. The feature can be found in the “Publish” tab on the right-hand side of a Docs page. Publishing Google docs to your blog [bavatuestdays via OUseful Info/del.icio.us] More »

Host Your Domain with Free Apps

4:00AM Gina Trapani | Want your very own web site address, but don’t want to mess with pay-for hosting packages or server configuration? Today you can buy a domain name for around 10 bucks a year (or less) and map it to a variety of free web-based apps for no-mess and no-cost hosting. Typical commercial web hosting starts at around $100 a year and comes with clunky webmail and apps you have to set up yourself. Instead, you can have a full-featured web site with multiple spacious email accounts, blog or static web page hosting, and other services for free. You don’t have to lease server space or run your own server to have your own URL. Let’s take a look at how you can set up a complete domain name backend for free. More »

Blog Offline with Google Gears at Blog.gears

11:14PM Kevin Purdy | Inspiration for great blog posts can be fleeting, but a lack of internet access can leave ideas in the dust. Webapp Blog.gears uses Google Gears to synchronise with a Blogger account to bridge that gap. Blog.gears allows Blogger authors to create new posts and edit older ones and synchronises the data upon connection. The offline editor doesn’t offer any of the rich text features as the online site, but it could work great for ideas you don’t want to forget about later. Blog.gears requires a free Blogger account and Google Gears, and runs wherever Internet Explorer or Firefox do. Blog.gears [via Google Operating System] More »