GG -> B | Reason Nb 2: The blank web-post syndrome

If an author had a creative blockage it was often referred to as blank page syndrome. The blank web-post syndrome is a bit different. Because the author knows, the text will be published, writing the post on the website's text editor causes people to stiffen up. Suddenly their writing is more formal and boring, or most likely they never finish it because they think it is not ready. 

In order to maintain a conversational style it might be useful to have real discussions over a list and publish those. And mailing lists or Internet forums are great at that. Most people learn it the hard way, that maybe it is better to think twice before posting.

Of course, you could also use your personal email to do publish on blogger, but then you need to create a Google Account for your blogger writings... and you can't share that.

Google Groups are a great way to unblock the web-post syndrome and unlock some great posts. That the blog only knows one author, the Google Group might actually be an advantage. The author is kind of anonymous. Superficially anyway.

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GoogleGroups -> Blogger | Reason Nb 1: Author Syndication

You could use Google Groups for people to participate in blog posting. An aggregated and syndicated blog for which you don't need to have a Google account, nor a Blogger identity / profile. And yes, that does make sense. Blogger.com does not allow for people to participate if you don't have a Google Account. Google Groups does (albight with limitations). So by using Google Groups or any other mailing list, you can publish to Blogger without a Google ID.

Disadvantage - the author of the blog post is always the same one, ie the dummy Google account you need to create to make that trick work - unless you know a better workaround. More on how to do that later...

Using blogger as a publish format for your Google Groups (or Yahoo Groups)

A blog to publish your mailing list - why?
At first I'll post some purposes and use cases as answers "RE: "to
this mail. Though I guess, the classic thread method might not be the
best way to publish the mailing list to the blog...
So here we go

The CreativeCombinations Google Group

What's the purpose of using blogger.com to post messages from a mailing list? To discuss and test those purposes we invite you to join the CreativeCombinations Google Group. And incidentally the discussion is then posted message by message to Blogger, IE this blog called creativecombinations.blogspot.com.

At the moment anyone can subscribe (either by visiting the Google Group first, or by simply using the box to the right of this blog. To avoid spammers and "how are you" posts, the messages by new members are moderated. Let the games begin :-)

Next combinations

We will have some fun.  I would like to create the blog of my blogs

• RSS to email - no probs, the fun is to use it as RSS-to-Email/Mailinglist-to blog
• RSS to blog - I'll check, else see above
• The other way too, sending blog posts and comments to a mailing list without creating a round-robin...
  

Including microblogging à la Twitter and Jaiku to this mix will be fun too.

Then we have some interesting blog extensions, such as enhancing the blog with forum features and rating of comments.  Don't know if those web 2.0 services will work with blogger.

Other ideas?

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Is a Google Apps account a Google account?

I tried to become a member of my Google Groups account with my user ID of a Google Apps domain.  And I can't login.
whatever@googleappsdomain.com isn't recognised as a proper Google account.  I remember having stumbled upon such a login problem wiGoogle before...

I tried googling (!) the problem, but couldn't find anything, is it just me?

Bug or feature?

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Opt-out is important for mailing-list-to-blog posting

... because you can invite the default unique email address of your blogger blog using Yahoo Groups, because it is opt-out, no confirmation needed.  You just delete the confirmation email blog post immediately.  Otherwise this address is really public, available and usable to every blog reader.

Google Groups asks for confirmation and the blogger email address can only receive email.  Therefore if you wanted to use Google Groups to post article on a blog, you need to create a generic email address (ie donotpublishthisemailaddress@gmail.com) with automatic forwarding to the blog-email-address.

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