Blogger to End FTP Publishing

Blogger to End FTP Publishing

Today, while trying to create a Blogger blog for my cooking site, I learned that Google will end FTP publishing support after March 26, 2010. From Blogger Buzz...

Last May, we discussed a number of challenges facing Blogger users who relied on FTP to publish their blogs. FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP - yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that. On top of this, critical infrastructure that our FTP support relies on at Google will soon become unavailable, which would require that we completely rewrite the code that handles our FTP processing.

At first, I was pretty disappointed; I'm one of the half percenters that publishes several Blogger blogs via FTP. I'm currently trying to maintain an investment blog, a political blog and a coin collecting blog all on subdirectories off of a main website (domain) which, it appears as of now, is not supported by Google's Custom Domain option.

Here's what I mean: www.brucified.com (a domain) or anything.brucified.com (a subdomain) is supported by Google Custom Domains but, as I understand, www.brucified.com/blog/ (a subdirectory) is not. This last example is what I'm doing on my websites.

I have several options. I can register the subdomains. I can host on Google's Blogspot domain. I can quit blogging on all those other blogs and do all of my blogging here at Brucified.

I'm too cheap to register extra domains just for blogs and I'm too proud to host my blogs on someone else's domain. The third option sounds like the way to go. I think I'll start doing all of my blogging here and spend more time writing articles for my other sites. Unlike most bloggers, I don't really need "push button publishing." I'm pretty good at writing my own HTML.

This may be a blessing. I've been spreading myself a little thin lately.

Read More: Blogger Buzz: Important Note to FTP Users

A Photo Of Noah Every Day For 6 Years

Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years (January 11, 2000 - July 31, 2006) with original music by Carly Comando.



It's a Work Still in Progress: Noah K. Everyday

The MANtage

Tonight's Friday Night Video is a montage of manly men doing manly things in a manly way -- Thank you Mister Man Sir.



My favorite lines -
"There's Luke laughin' at somebody different!"
"There's Joe wrestling a bear at night!"
"There's Luke not tippin' on account of poor service!"

Barats and Bereta's: Website and YouTube Channel

How to Fold a T-Shirt

How to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds (via Bit Rebels).



Here's a slower version with instructions.

Happy Birthday To Me

Well, happy effing birthday to me. Instead of the traditional birthday ditty, let's all gather around our 'puters and sing this little number. All together now...

Battle Hymn of the Baby Boomers (holy crap I'm getting older).

I Miss Her

Is a picture worth a thousand words? I don't know. What about a picture of these three words? I think so; because I miss her... enough said.

Brucified on Twitter

I've had a Twitter account for months now, I just haven't used it. That's not unusual for me. As a webmaster I'm always quick to signup for, check out, and later declare as a waste of time, the latest web 2.0 social media type websites.

Yesterday I decided to revisit Twitter and, as luck would have it, I also found this post at Smashing Magazine - 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications. I gave the article a quick perusal and decided that there wasn't anything there that I needed; but that could change.

I have, however, found TinyURL quite useful on Twitter. You're only allowed 140 characters in a Twit (Twitter post) and TinyURL turns long URLs (Uniform Resource locator) into Tiny URLs (duh) leaving you more room to actually write... er, twit... tweet? I'll figure it out.

Anyway - Here I Am.

Download Free Music

Sorry for not posting for so long. I'd started a new job which, unfortunately, I recently lost. Hard coming, hard going.

Anyway, I find myself in difficult financial times and I need to make some money. I was inspired by this post from Webmaster World to do a little more selling on my websites. Here's the post - Why affiliates refuse to make money.

I've long been a fan of all kinds of music, country, rock, alternative, classical; anything but rap and opera basically, so this was an easy idea.

That said here goes a really soft sell - Free MP3 Music Downloads. Check it out, clicking a freaking link doesn't cost anything. If nothing else, tell me what you think of the page itself. And yes, that was a shameless link drop.

Paul Newman Dies

As an actor, Newman got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Academy Awards 10 times, winning one Oscar and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."

Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."

"There is a point where feelings go beyond words," Redford said Saturday. "I have lost a real friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it."

Here's The Full Story and a Photo Gallery.

Welcome to The New Brucified

Welcome to the new Brucified. I have decided to transform this blog from it's formerly political self into something a little more personal. Since I am, for the most part, a webmaster I’ll be blogging mostly about being a webmaster. No big surprise there, but I also hope to include an occasional little something on what it really means to be, as I am, Brucified.

Along the way I will provide you with some tips that will make your website or blog better, faster and more fun. I’ll be writing about modifying Google’s Blogger, search engine optimization, getting traffic, building websites, making money, computers and some of the techniques I've learned in my over 10 years as a webmaster plus whatever else I think will be informative or at least entertaining.

And I’m going to start right now by explaining...

Why I Chose Google’s Blogger.

1. Blogger is simple. Most people can get the hang of Google’s blog platform quickly. The downside to this simplicity is that Blogger is often accused of not being as customizable or robust as some of the other blogging platforms. That’s a problem I think I can solve.

2. It’s Google (dammit!). Today Google is the most popular search engine in the world. That may and probably will change, but today is today and to get traffic to our sites we have to respect Google’s dominance in search. I use Blogger because I believe it helps me get into Google’s SERPs (search engine results pages). Although I have absolutely no proof of this, I am sure that using Blogger will not hurt my efforts to get my blog noticed.

3. I’m familiar with Blogger. While that’s not a good reason for you to use Blogger it may be a good reason to stay with whatever blogging platform you are most familiar with if you already have a blog. My posts specifically about Blogger may not be relevant in your case, but I do have something to say on the many other issues you’ll encounter running a website or blog.

So hang out, and hang on because the next post is coming right up.