The itch to write http://our.blog.com/ Blog.com's official blog en-US Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:20:45 +0200 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:20:45 +0200 Blog.com http://our.blog.com/3271519/ Downtime Wednesday at 07h00 GMT http://our.blog.com/3271519/ Blog.com will be upgrading database servers, tomorrow starting at 07h00UTC (that's 02h00EST, 14h00 in Beijing). The upgrade process will need to be executed offline, so the service will be unavailable during the process which lasts about two hours.

Our apologies in advance for the downtime. We promise to be brief. Bistromath Captain Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:24:11 +0200 http://our.blog.com/3139197/ Blog.com offers condolences to earthquake victims http://our.blog.com/3139197/ Our thoughts are with the victims of this terrible tragedy and their families following the devastating earthquake in Sichuan.


 Fernando Costa Wed, 21 May 2008 18:30:33 +0200 http://our.blog.com/2302644/ Server problems http://our.blog.com/2302644/ We are having some problems with our servers but we are already working to fix these problems. Expect a difficult bloging day.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
 Zii Bloggerrrr Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:34:05 +0100 http://our.blog.com/2213397/ Post by email http://our.blog.com/2213397/ Now you can do a post by sending an email to your blog.
Example:
 - if your blog address is http://example.blog.com/  just send an email to xxxx.example@post.blog.com where xxxx is your personnal pin.

You can check or regenerate your pin at http://panel.blog.com/pdata/
Or you can check the entire email address at http://editor.blog.com/blogs/edit/

Hope you like it! Zii Bloggerrrr Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:25:58 +0200 http://our.blog.com/2173566/ Small change in our editor http://our.blog.com/2173566/ Hi everyone,

just want to inform you that we changed the new line / paragraph in our editor. Now, if you need a new line just press "enter".
 Zii Bloggerrrr Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:04:46 +0200 http://our.blog.com/1943704/ New features http://our.blog.com/1943704/

Since our last update we have a couple of new features:

  • Send post to email (the small envelope you can see bellow each post) - this allow your blog readers to send your post to a friend.
  • Navigation links (older posts and newer posts links ) - another form of browsing the older entries in your blog.
  • RSS and ATOM comment feed (you can follow a comment discussion). You can see the symbol in your browser's address bar.
Hope you like the new features.
 Zii Bloggerrrr Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:21:59 +0200 http://our.blog.com/1750476/ Unexpected downtime http://our.blog.com/1750476/ Sorry everyone. We hit a bump on the road... Our disk array server stopped at about 22h00GMT yesterday and it took us until 11h00GMT today to fix it. Everything should be ok now, but please report any problems to the support team. Bistromath Captain Wed, 09 May 2007 14:12:31 +0200 http://our.blog.com/1714640/ Programmed downtime http://our.blog.com/1714640/

Blog.com will be offline for half an hour starting at 18h30UTC (that's 13h30 in New York, 10h30 in Settle or 01h30 in Beijing). We will be adding a new server to the mix, and this involves finally moving the last couple of file datasets to the central storage. We promise to be quick.

Update: The maintenance was completed with no hickups. The service is back online. Blog search caches will take a few hours to catch up, so expect search not to work for up to six hours. Thanks for your patience Smile

 Bistromath Captain Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:36:08 +0200 http://our.blog.com/1700633/ Different files in your blogs http://our.blog.com/1700633/

As you may have noticed we now support more files than images. You can now upload to your posts:

  • Documents (pdf documents, word documents, powerpoint presentations and excel sheets).
  • Music files (mp3).
  • Video files (avi, mpeg, wmv, mov).
  • Flash files (swf).
  • Zip files with any of the other files.

Check our sidebar to see that you can also create a playlist from your previously uploaded mp3 files.
For more information about file uploads please check our Knowledgebase.

 Zii Bloggerrrr Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:41:31 +0200 http://our.blog.com/1675459/ Help us translate blog.com http://our.blog.com/1675459/

... or the blog.com tower of babel. Try out the new blog.com application, babel, and help us get a perfect translation of blog.com to your native language.

We regularly receive requests for localized versions of blog.com. Suprisingly, we also regularly receive offers for help translating blog.com. This is fantastic:

  1. There are no better translators than native speakers of any given language.
  2. It provides us with the ability to have blog.com translated into about every language out there
  3. Definitely proves we have the best users in the world (all over the world, by the way).

Our best answer to this suprise is to empower every blog.com author to help with translation, with a new application in our suite. You don't need any approval from us. If you have the desire to help, head over to http://babel.blog.com/ sign in with your blog.com account, and translate away. The application allows you to either translate new strings, or review work from others -- including translations we have already outsourced.

We give away premium blog.com accounts for relevant work in translation. If you think you are entitled to one, post a message to our support team.

Note that we will also keep going on with the paid translation effort, integrated with public work created in babel. If the quality of work provided via babel is good enough, we may start posting paid work orders here for translators to pick up.

 Bistromath Captain Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:22:55 +0200