In the last few days my wife and I have fought Blogger and SurveyMonkey. For two applications that are used by a lot of people, especially writers and academics, the applications are horrible. When an engineer and computer programmer can't figure out the choices to accomplish basic tasks, something is wrong. I have used Blogger for several years. This is a great platform, but some of the tools need improvement. The help to accomplish tasks leaves much to be desired. We wanted to create a multi-author blog. While we were able to get the setup to allow anyone to post, the author name was always the same. It took several passes through the settings to realize you needed to create special "inbox" addresses for each author. Sure, it was a logical fix once we realized the issue, but it wasn't obvious on the surface. That's not good. Also, the editor has some problems with formatted e-mail. I wish the editor were more like Google's Doc application. ...
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