Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Google Docs and Blogger Work Together

I noticed a while ago that Google Docs had new features. They have several more announcements now, but I'm talking about way back when they added the ability to publish to your blog. They currently support Blogger, BlogHarbor, BlogWare, LiveJournal, SquareSpace, WordPress, and any site that uses the Blogger, MetaWeblog, or MovaleType API. I use Blogger and have been fine with typing in the text area they provide, but this could be helpful if you publish with several other people on a blog and don't want them to see your work in progress. In my case this would be more useful to hide how long it can take me to finish a post that I start. So I finally tested this feature out on a recent post to a green blog that I contribute to. It's nothing fantastic, but it worked. I do have two complaints. The first is that the settings ask if you would like to include the document title when posting (if possible). I selected this option and expected that since I use Blogger, this would be possible. Apparently not. Hopefully this will change, but it is annoying for now. The second gripe I have is adding tags to your post. This was also mentioned during the publishing process, but there wasn't a way to add them without going in to Blogger and editing the post. I'm trying this method once more with this post, but I think I'll stick with Blogger until they make a more compelling reason to switch.