Google's blog publishing service, Blogger, will be getting HTTPS support which will bring an added layer of security for content authors and visitors. Bloggers using the service can opt in today.

If you've been hosting any adult content on Google's Blogger service, it's time to start looking elsewhere. From late March, Google will effectively begin hiding all those posts.

Sites on Google's Blogger platform have long used addresses of the form blogname.blogspot.com. Google is now applying the same regional detection it uses on its main site to Blogger, so many of those addresses will now show up in the form blogname.blogspot.com.au for Australian visitors.

Dear Lifehacker, A simple but challenging question: With sites like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, which one's a guy to choose? Thanks, Beginning Blogger

Whether you finally decided to shed [email protected] for a more professional handle or you want to swap Google accounts for less embarrassing reasons, Google doesn't have a built-in system for migrating your data to a new account. So we figured it out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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