Podcasting as a New Podium

Virginia Heffernan has a nice July 22, 2005 article at the New York Times on podcasting entitled The Podcast as a New Podium. Here is a sample paragraph:

"On "Catholic Insider" Father Vonhögen leads audio tours of Rome, which he often visits, and parses the Vatican's reaction to the new Harry Potter novel; he also boasts about how many subscribers he has, as all podcasters do. Recently he told a reporter: "On Sunday, in my church, I can reach about 500 people. But with my podcasts I can reach about 15,000 listeners or more.""
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Solving Template Problems Arising since the Introduction of Blogger Images

The introduction of Blogger Images has caused some template problems for numerous users because as Blogger Buzz writes:

"In order to provide the layout options in our newly released Blogger Images we had to wrap all posts in a

tag."

This tag is NOT found in your templates, but shows up first when you view the source code of one of your Blogger blog pages.

The solution is to go to your Blogger blog dashboard and set the newly added "Enable float alignment" option in the blog settings to NO.

That will solve template problems but will create left and right alignment problems for the new Blogger Images feature.

Hat Tip to FamilyGreenberg.com.

Blogger Dashboard Update Feature Finally Fixed

The Blogger Dashboard update feature has finally been fixed, after months and months of being disabled. Bloggers can now once again tell from the Blogger Dashboard how many posts they have posted for each blog and when their last posting for each blog was made. It used to also be possible to see how many words a blogger had posted, but this feature appears to have been discarded for this newly fixed Dashboard version.