n February, Google announced that photos uploaded to Blogger would be hosted in Picasa [1].
Each of your blogs now has its own album in Picasa Web Albums, which is exciting because you now have a photo management interface for your blog’s photos – for example you could order prints, use the fancy email this photo feature, or easily embed the album somewhere else on the web.
Well, that sounded good. Earlier this week, however, I noticed something different on the photo upload screen:
Based on the blog entry, they have migrated pictures uploaded since December.
Now we enter the realm of conflicting information; a land where confusion and intrigue reign supreme. On the one hand the suggestion is that in 3 months I have consumed 20% of my space. As well in reviewing my Picasa account I can find only 14 pictures. Yet the sum of the sizes of those pictures does not add up to the reported 211 mega bytes.
I’m not going to waste my time trying to resolve those questions. The relevant one is it looks like I will quickly reach the limit. What then?
My ISP provides unlimited storage for photographs, so I thought I would publish there and then link from my blog. Unfortunately it seems that the links to the photographs are dynamic and the only way to get to the picture is to go through a prescribed route. On that journey, the reader will be subjected by advertising.
Looks like the “for free” is a limited-time offer.
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