Clarifying the freeing of Blogger Pro @ Radio Free Blogistan

September 19, 2003

Christian Crumlish

I was a little confused by the news announcements about the end of a fee-based Pro version of Blogger and folding in of most of the Blogger Pro feature set into free Blogger.

I emailed Steve Jenson a few questions and, though he was on vacation at the time, he graciously passed them along to Jason Shellen who told me Google plans to offer syndication to all users relatively soon and is working on the email features as well.

In the meantime, existing Blogger Pro users retain the use of the full feature set, but Google is not supporting new signups to Pro. Existing Blogger users can enjoy a large portion of the advanced features (hey, titles!), but will have to wait for syndication.

Posted by xian at September 19, 2003 8:44 AM

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Now if they could only add some commenting as well.

Posted by: Frank Patrick at September 19, 2003 1:36 PM

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