I use Blogger for a number of personal projects and some commercial work, but the one Blogger blog that I have posted to the most is my intranet. Here’s how I use it:
- I map a Blogger blog to a folder on one of my URLs that is hosted on a normal cheap but powerful hosting account. This way all of the posts are actually published to a directory that I can be back up and control
- Then I password-protect it using the cPanelX provided by the host
- And I store all sorts of important time-based/ subject-based stuff that I want to keep track of: notes on doctor visits for the kids, important emails that represent a particular time period, thoughts about personal goals, the letters to Santa that start in June, character studies, poem snippets, and so on
- It is probably the closest I come to an actual "web journal", but I’d never consider publishing it– it’s my intranet
- There have been many times where I’ve gone back to it to confirm a fact, look up an important piece of info, or jst review what the hell my story is
- The only downside is the lack of tagging support in Blogger, but I keep posts to a real essential minimum, so I don’t have trouble finding what I need
That’s one way I use Blogger.