05/11/2004

“When you sign in to Blogger, you land on your Dashboard page; a kind of command center featuring all the blogs you have editorial access to…”

here are the things i used to like about blogger:
– i could switch from one weblog to another in one step, not two.
– i could preview my post on the same page on which i was writing it (again, one step, not two).
– i could save a post to finish later without having to publish it or mark it as a draft.
– i also liked that the page title was “Edit your blog: bluishorange”, not “bluishorange :: Create New Post”, because i always have several browser windows open at once, and a window labeled “bluishorange” in my taskbar makes me think that’s my site and not blogger.
– and clever names like “dashboard” were not used to describe elements of the user interface.  if an organization thinks that its users need car analogies to successfully navigate their site, i am not that organization’s target market.

the new blogger alienates me, the non-end-user.