Blogger gets Lightbox.

As welcome news, much more welcome than the awful iOS app, Google integrated Lightbox into Blogger. Now, when you click on an image (one that doesn't link to an external source), you will see a nice screen overlay with the full-size version of the image neatly centered. No work on the blogger's end is required.

Google farts out a Blogger app for iOS.

New post.

Just released by Google's experimental department of programmers – the ones that had their temporal lobes removed – is a Blogger app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Supposedly, it allows me to write drafts, or even publish Blogger posts directly from my iPhone. Sounds awesome! Let's try to write a new post...

This doesn't really look like a blog post. It looks like a bunch of unformatted text, and some image thumbnails below, that you can't order or move anywhere.

This is what this post looks like in preview...
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Post preview in Chrome.

Editing a post.

Awesome!

Now let's see what happens when I try to edit an actual blog post with the iOS app. I'm not sure which feature is my favorite: the raw HTML code, or the “hide keyboard” button that covers part of the text?

The good news is that the app is not entirely useless. I can use it to snap a couple of photos on the iPhone and attach them to a headline, to be edited later via the Blogger browser app. But as a blog publishing app, it's just embarrassing.

I know there are some smart people employed at Google. Can we please hand this over to them?