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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

A Blogger detail you likely will not care about . . .

. . . and that probably shouldn't have surprised me, but did.

Occasionally if you post to things like photography bulletin boards, you might want to post a photo, but for one reason or another--either so you can post it larger than otherwise allowed, or so you can removed it when you wish--it makes sense to link to a photo hosted elsewhere (with an img src tag) rather than to upload the photo directly to the bulletin board site. Still with me?

So I needed to do this recently and thought: what could be easier than just uploading the photo to Blogger (a private "junk" blog) and then linking to the large version of the photo being hosted by Blogger. Then, when it was time to take down the photo from the bulletin board, I would just pull the plug by deleting the post on the junk blog.

WRONG. The large version stays on a Blogger/Google server somewhere with its URL locked in and there's nothing (it appears) you can do to change that. Of course, we know that Google keeps a copy of just about everything, but not much of it is addressable by URL in this way.

So the takeaway, for anyone who cares, is that once you upload a photo to Blogger it is there to stay. As a practical matter, no one will be able to find it unless you have shared the URL, but still.


posted at 3:22 PM

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