Friday Blogplugs, Unfinished Business & Journals Beta

Things are pretty quiet on the blogplugs front, which are blog entries that people have sent me or tagged with the tag blogplugs, so that other people can see them:

* Blogplug regulars Gifdude and Jimmy check in

* Paul reports the results of CarnivAOL #38, which you can see over in Barbara's Journal, Life & Faith in Caneyhead.

* The very same Barbara also blogplugs an entry by Wayne, a minister who blogs over at Marturia

Remember, if you want to blogplug an entry of your own or someone else's, just send it to me at JournalsEditor@aol.com, or better, tag it with blogplugs so that people can see it, just by clicking the link.

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In other news, I still have to do that entry addressing the points raised in a Washington Post article, "Sexual Threats Stifle Some Female Bloggers", but I'm a little fried right now and I need to be on top of my game on this one or I'll get into trouble. So, next week.

Also, the Journals team has pushed a couple of features into beta, including an improved way to embed picture & video. I will talk about it more next week, but if you like, you can play around with the beta -- just stick "beta" in front of your Journals address -- for me, my beta Journal is at :

http://beta.journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/ (click to see the embedded video test in my All About Me)

PLEASE NOTE: Only use your beta Journal for testing purposes -- stuff that you post to yourbeta Journal will not go to your production Journal -- only use it if you want to try out the new features.

As I said, the new features are primarily in the picture and video embedding process, and additions to the whitelist of approved sites (sites you can include javascript from) -- I will talk about it in more detail next week.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: blogplugs, aol journals beta