Staff of Geeks

Sarah posted her frustrations about .Text images, so first off I want to point her at my post for how bloggers should you images on the site.

So now that we know we are suggesting Flickr instead, what about images now, why won't they work. .Text inserts images into a directory based on domain. So if you uploaded your photos from www.geekswithblogs.net, it gets placed in a folder www_geekswithblogs.net and is accessible from only www.geekswithblogs.net. So geekswithblogs.com will go to geekswithblogs_com. So you can see the issue. By default, we link to the blogger site from the main page to geekswithblogs.net (no www.) and that is probably your best bet.

While designing the outline for features of GWB 2.0, I realized that the Galleries piece is one of those that I am not sure ever did what we wanted. Because of this, I am going to create a image service provider for the system that will be configured for day one to work with Flickr. Flickr got it right and I have a feeling I won't if I created an image hosting service inside of GWB 2.0.

This will cause some issues if you are currently using the Galleries inside GWB 2.0. As many of us have found, Flickr works great with GWB 1.0 today, so if you want images now, I suggest starting a Flickr account today. As other services popup that have the API capabilitiesthat Flickr has, we will investigate integrating them as well for your use.

If anyone has any suggestions or complaints about this, please add a comment.

Yesterday, working with Daryll from Microsoft Academic, we added 10 new bloggers from the Faculty Advisory Board (K-12) for Microsoft. I would like to welcome these new members to our community.

• Pat Phillips
• Brian Scarbeau
• Tom Indelicato
• Judi (Judith) Heher
• David Jacobus
• Judith Hromcik
• Chap Percival
• Susan Canaga
• Reg Hahne
• Dan Forhan