Bloggerbot to be turned off soon

Michael Lowry reports that he received a message whilst posting to his blog using Hello that Bloggerbot is going away soon.  The full text of the message is

Bloggerbot is going away soon.

Bloggerbot will be turned off by the end of 2006.

Instead try Picasa's "BlogThis!" feature.

(We're working to make it even better.)

As Michael notes, although superficially BlogThis! and the Bloggerbot both do the same thing in allowing you to post pictures to your blog (from Picasa or the companion Hello), the differences at the detail level are such that Bloggerbot users don't want to move to the more limited BlogThis! system.

 The differences include

• The "BlogThis!" window takes up the whole screen, which make it difficult to produce the blog post, which often requires you to consult other windows to collect or check on information as you write.
• Bloggerbot does not limit the number of photos in a blog post, whereas BlogThis! can only cope with 4
• The BlogThis! window is very slow to appear, so you have to sit around and wait for many seconds before you can start your blog post.

Michael also relates in an earlier post how he recently started to get truncated images with Bloggerbot, but Google eventually identified and fixed that problem.

For examples of blog posts that use the ability of Bloggerbot to post an unlimited number of photos at once, check out his "eat, drink and be merry" blog.