Blogger usability

This blog, as well as most of my other blogs, are made using Blogger.

The irony is that Blogger keeps making changes much beyond my control. They then send me mails telling me that I need to correct things on the blog, without giving me a five minute instruction on how to change it.

On behalf of this blog and my other blogs, I want to apologise for not having the time to fix all usability errors that somehow are introduced into a blog, which once worked fine.

Cannot make comments on Blogger

If you go to a blog that is handled by Blogger, like this one, you may not be able to make any comments. You do not get any good error messages, but the text you painstakingly composed disappears into cyberspace.

If this happens, it is very possible that you have blocked third party cookies in your browser. How that is done in your particular browser varies, so google for "block third party cookies" and the name of your browser.

(As an example, in Chrome for MacOS, you go to Chrome > Preferences > Advanced > Privacy and Security > Site Settings > Cookies and Site Data > Block Third-party Cookies.)

If you want to make a comment, toggle the setting temporarily to off, make the comment, and then toggle back on, if you want to continue to block third-party cookies.

Text-only News sites

While a lot of web sites out there become increasingly slow and distracting and bandwidth hungry, there are a few sites that still give you no-nonsense text information without pictures, huge video ads or useless javascript code. Here are a few such sites:

• CNN. A lite version of CNN's news. Whether you like their journalism or not, it is quick to load. In English.
• DR. Danish state television teletext news. In Danish.
• NOS. Dutch publish news broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. In Dutch. 
• NPR. American National Public Radio without any distracting layout. In English.
• SVT. Swedish state television teletext news. In Swedish.
• Textnews Pythonanywhere. Aggregated news from different RSS feeds. In English and Hindi.