Monday, June 17, 2013
I am not blogging as frequently because...
blogger has become less user-friendly. I have an enormous collection of photographs in Picasa. It used to be super-easy to transfer photos to blogger; there was a button which said "blog this," you pressed it, and there it was. I've been using blogger for 7 years now and it was ever thus. However, the button has now disappeared.
My daughter tells me to figure it out--it will stimulate my brain, according to her. But the last thing I want is stimulation of my brain. Thinking through problems is frustrating, vexing, and a waste of time. I have half-heartedly tried to go around this problem, but doing it the roundabout way is clumsy, kind of like rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time.
I thought this was a subtle inducement to using blogger+, but it isn't. Blogger+ is just a pointless new way to waste time on the Internet. Like Facebook and its peers.
Hello Miriam,
ReplyDeleteMy sincere condolences on your recent loss. My thoughts are with you.
As to your problem with adding photos to your posts, I upgraded to the new Blogger as well. Although I do not use Picasa, I do add photos, and I begin by clicking the little photo icon at the header of the post composition page.
A working pane slides down into view and you, implicitly, "From Where?"
At the left is a list of possibilities. You click on "From Picasa web albums."
If the part following that remains annoying, then you could start by downloading from Picasa photos you want to a dedicated folder on your desktop. Then when at Blogger Create Post, click instead "Upload." That will yield a working pane showing your own computer folder system - Finder, in Apple - and you select on the folder you desire.
If this continues to annoy, remember the option of inviting a neighbor kid in to show you this in exchange for food.
Julie Zdrojewski