woohoo! - sort of

Blogger just keeps getting better and better these days. They've teamed up with a company which created a software for photoblogging through its own instant messenger. I was very excited when I heard that the company (Picasa) hosts your pictures for free and downloaded its photo-messenger immediately. On closer examination however, it's not as flexible as having your own ftp space with no strings attached. The messenger (which plugs Picasa's photo organizer software) posts your picture with a caption as one blog post, and you have to go back and edit it if you want a longer post. You do not get a url for the picture until you actually publish it in a post. So to put a picture in my profile, for example, I had to first post it, get the url off of the post, then delete the post and put the url in my profile. A bit of a hassle, but I guess it's a different sort of cost.