Scheduled Publishing - Blogger Is Now One Up Against Wordpress

Blogger is experimenting with Blogger-In-Draft - an upgrade that equips the world famous blogging engine with a pre-publish feature that comes standard with Wordpress. On Blogger, this is known as Scheduled Publishing.

Prior to this, no matter what Post Options you pick, ie. the dates to publish, Blogger just goes ahead and publish your post. Even if you date your post two years from now, Blogger publishes it with glee, making you look like a bloody fool if you go ahead with it.

The lack of a pre-publish feature makes it quite a chore if you want a regular publishing of posts, especially if you are running a syndicated blog-column or some people call it blog-lum where daily posts are required. You simply have to log in daily and publish the posts you have saved in draft. Some trouble, isn't it? And if you can't log in, your posts' continuity is dead.

Now, with this scheduled publishing system, Blogger has gone up one notch against Wordpress. It should now be the perfect blogging tool for bloggers, as it even allows much, much more flexibility than Wordpress where 'free hosting' is concerned. You can get a hosted name and point it to Blogger and your blog posts will happily reside in Blogger servers for free. Not with Wordpress, you can't.

Apart from that, Blogger allows you a certain degree of tweaking of the templates under its free hosting. Not Wordpress. You can design all you want but Wordpress doesn't allow you entry into their servers unless your hosting is paid to any of the Wordpress hosts.

Now what I would be interested in is for Blogger to come up with tweakable posts, ie. you can have various posts on any category, designed to be static or dynamic. You know, those elements that you can arrange on a template, anywhere you like. In short, turn Blogger into a content management system that Wordpress has already become. Now, if that happens, it would be awesome!