Mid-Atlantic Musings is less than 2 years old and my skating blog On Thin Ice has yet to crest it's first birthday. Yet the other day when I attempted to add a photo to a yet unpublished post, I was informed by blogger that I'd hit the wall of my 1 GB of free storage space. Blogger will still allow me to post words. Words apparently don't take up space, but a blog without pix is like a joke without a punchline. Many who read my blogs have been in the blogging game much, much longer than me and I assume some must have also been confronted by this same 1 GB limit. My question to you is what is the best strategy? a). throw blogger a few dollars a month to buy more space, or b). jump ship and look for a new blog home with more free space; perhaps tumblr. or Posterous? The dollar amount isn't that much when viewed within one year, but over ten years it adds up to significant money that could be spent elsewhere.
This brings up another unrelated question: what happens to blogspots that don't exceed their space limits but the author kicks the bucket or perhaps just decides to stop posting? Do those photos just sit in the ethernet for as long as there's electricity? I blog, therefore I exist?
I was notified of the same thing two weeks ago. It's two something a month to continue, and I figured it was worth it. And you're right. To me, blogging without some kind of photo is like dinner without wine. Before I agreed however, I tried to eliminate some of the Picasa web albums to free up some space. I couldn't do it.
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Baydog: You're right about the cheaper than many other vices, etc. I just wish I could transfer whatever space google gives for Picasa albums over to my blogspots because I don't have a single thing stored in Picasa or in gmail. Just blogger. Is there some trick I'm missing?
DeleteI dunno. I've been blogging since 2008 and haven't gotten 'The Message' yet. I do and my last posting will be forwarding address to another blog I guess.
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Deletegeorge!! you have to keep blogging! or else how am i going to keep track of your whereabouts??
ReplyDeleteNo worries, Emilina--I'll figure this out and in the end probably just toss google some money. Happy early birthday, by the way!
DeleteI have been blogging for over 7 years and gave written almost 2500 posts (most with photos) and I haven't got the "message" yet. I read somewhere that photos smaller than 800x800 don't count towards the limit. Maybe that's why I'm OK?
ReplyDeleteThis may be one of the downfalls of photo-blogging (posting many photos in many posts with little or no text, and often only captions), of which I am guilty. The photos for me are often a crutch; I admit I can come up with only so
DeleteI tried smaller photos once but hated the aesthetics. That's probably vanity on my part since most of the photos are mine, but it bothered me to imagine my viewers (like you) having to squint! Squinting leads to dreadful wrinkles, you know...
DeleteThere are other photo intensive blogs such as http://cmboviewfromthecape.blogspot.com/ which offer deliciously dense photos. I suppose it's only a matter of time before they hit the 1GB wall as well.
Tillerman/Baydog: I once again revisited smaller pix and indeed 800 x800 sized photos don't count since blogger allowed me to upload an earlier denied photo after I down-sized it with Adobe ImageReady. Adobe squashed the pix to 800 x 600, so even smaller than google's limit.
DeleteOnce uploaded, blogger allowed me to increase the size so that my readers don't have to squint. Life is good again and although I have to go through an extra step, it appears that I can post pix and not have to throw money at google. The image quality appears ok (see my latest post in the skating blog).
I started compressing the photos I post too about 200--500kb, on the theory that most people just look at them as they appear on the blog. Desert Sea's about 7 years old and I've probably put off getting "the message" for another year or perhaps two. Then I might just create a successor blog. Or maybe by then storage extension will get cheaper or some free blog provider will get more generous.
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