Blogger adds new template widgets: Newsreel and Video bar
Posted on March 30, 2007 at 6:12 pm
So if people are getting bored at your blog (like mine), then you can now give them a little bit of entertainment that they would be otherwise lacking browsing the blog! Just kidding…
Blogger has now add two more page elements that you can add to your blog called Newsreel and Video bar. The Newsreel basically searches Google news and using the RSS feed off customized searches (which you can create on your own also by looking at this post), it created an automcatically updating list of news items! Type in some keywords that interest you and the articles will start flowing!
The Video bar works the same way using Google video and YouTube. It even allows them to play the videos from within your blog!
To get to these new items, click the Layout link from your Dashboard and click the “Add a Page Element“. The Newsreel widget will switch between a scrolling ticker or a list of summaries based on whether it’s in the Sidebar or in the Main column.
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the big problem right now with Newsreel is that you can’t change the colors of the text. I use a black background and you can’t see the dark-blue links. I ended up using a regular RSS feed of Google News instead.