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The Interface on Monday, February 08, 2010 11:33:16 PM
My few readers may have noted my previous post in which I indicated I was going to try moving over to the Blogger platform for blogging (www.theinterfaceofdataandlife.blogspot.com) due to the deficiencies of the Townhall platform. I’ve now done so for a little bit, mirroring my posts here by posting to both sites, and, alas and forsooth, I’ve found one tool in the form of one button that Townhall provides me that Blogger does not (at least not that I’ve yet found) that is crucial to the ease of my posting experience. I vastly prefer the Blogger platform’s flexibility and so-called “gadgets” that can be added, and the larger set of templates, and the ability to add RefTagger to my posts. But…I compose 99.9% of my posts on the train during my commutes to and from work, meaning I do nearly all my work offline. The button Townhall provides is the one labeled “Paste from Word.” This allows me to create posts with all the formatting features I need, italics, bold, indents, etc., that I can then simply cut and paste into my Townhall blog with no further effort since all the formatting, including links, are maintained in this operation using this button. Doing so in the Blogger platform results in the loss of all such formatting (i.e., the pasting of the plain text copy) and the introduction of multiple additional line breaks that require I spend considerable time correcting to get my posts back into the desired format.Consequently, I will no longer be posting over there unless my query to the technical support for Blogger yields positive results in how to cut and paste maintaining formats and links into this platform. I am now planning on trying the WordPress platform which will not all me to use RefTagger at this point, but if I find I can do the above with the additional flexibility of design noted for Blogger, I will still be ahead of the Townhall platform. When I have that site up and running, I will notify my loyal followers (all two of you?).
So, you are stuck with me here for awhile after all. Let the critical thinking continue….