October 17th, 2004 by Jemaleddin Cole

I’ve been want­ing to do some pho­to­blog­ging for a while. Not the kind that requires great com­po­si­tions or tire­less ded­i­ca­tion, just a simple place to stick pic­tures of my kids and what-​not. But even the simple Mov­able Type upload pic­ture rou­tine seemed overly com­pli­cated. Edit­ing, sizing, naming, moving, upload­ing, describ­ing - too much work. Until…

Google made it simple. Well, actu­ally, two com­pa­nies and three prod­ucts that Google bought made it simple. Those prod­ucts would be Blog­ger, Picasa and Hello. Blog­ger, as every­one knows, is a the free web-​based blog­ging tool. Picasa is a photo-​archiving appli­ca­tion. And Hello is an inte­grated instant mes­sen­ger for photos. But how does that help? Like this:

1. Sub­scribe to Blog­ger. Set up a blog either on your server (through the ftp inter­face) or theirs. Pick your tem­plate, turn off the nav bar, enter a few details about your­self and you’re ready to
2. Down­load Picasa. Tell it where you keep your dig­i­tal photos, let it sort through your hard drive, learn the strangely appeal­ing inter­face. Then get ready to
3. Install Hello. You need an account, since it’s an instant mes­sen­ger, but it’s a very smooth process. You’ll want to set up the Blog­ger­Bot by telling it your Blog­ger account infor­ma­tion and how you want to format your pic­tures. Then head back to
4. Picasa, which sud­denly has a little button down at the bottom right corner of the screen while you’re look­ing at one of your pic­tures. Pick a pic, click the button, and a Hello chat window pops up. Choose your Blog­ger­Bot, type a cap­tion, and hit send.
5. Enjoy your photoblog.

Or rather, my pho­to­blog. I know I am. I’ll try to get a few more pics up there soon.

If you need any help set­ting some­thing like this up for your­self, feel free to ask in the com­ments or send me an email.

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